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The use of mathematical models in the epidemiological study of infectious diseases and in the design of mass immunization programmes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

D. J. Nokes  and
R. M. Anderson
D. J. Nokes
Affiliation:
Parasite Epidemiology Research Group, Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BB
R. M. Anderson
Affiliation:
Parasite Epidemiology Research Group, Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BB
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Community-based immunization is the primary method available today by which to reduce the scale of morbidity, and, in certain countries, mortality, associated with the most common childhood viral and bacterial infections. The decline in the incidences of a number of important vaccine preventable infections, such as polio, diphtheria and measles, in many countries, and the worldwide eradication of the smallpox virus, is testimony to the effectiveness of this method of control.

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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 101 , Issue 1 , August 1988 , pp. 1 - 20
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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