Effectiveness and Timing of Vaccination during School Measles Outbreak

Effectiveness and Timing of Vaccination during School Measles Outbreak

Despite high vaccination coverage in most European countries, large community outbreaks of measles do occur, normally clustered around schools and resulting from suboptimal vaccination coverage. To determine whether or when it is worth implementing outbreak-response vaccination campaigns in schools,...

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Main Authors: Axel Antonio Bonačić Marinović, Corien Swaan, Ole Wichmann, Jim van Steenbergen, Mirjam Kretzschmar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012-09-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
measles
vaccination
outbreak response
schools
stochastic model
intervention
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/9/11-1578_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/9/11-1578_article

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