After the honeymoon, the divorce: Unexpected outcomes of disease control measures against endemic infections.

The lack of effective vaccines for many endemic diseases often forces policymakers to rely on non-immunizing control measures, such as vector control, to reduce the massive burden of these diseases. Controls can have well-known counterintuitive effects on endemic infections, including the honeymoon...

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Main Authors: Brandon Hollingsworth, Kenichi W Okamoto, Alun L Lloyd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008292