Designing a vaccination strategy against dengue

In this work we propose a mathematical approach to estimate the dengue force of infection, the average age of dengue first infection, the optimum age to vaccinate children against dengue in a routine fashion and the optimum age interval to introduce the dengue vaccine in a mass vaccination campaign....

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Main Authors: Marcos Amaku, Laurent Coudeville, Eduardo Massad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2012-10-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652012000700008&lng=en&tlng=en