Vaccination can have important indirect effects on the spread of an infectious agent by reducing the level of infectiousness of vaccinees who become infected. To estimate the effect of vaccination on infectiousness, one typically requires data on the contacts between susceptible and infected vaccina
Protective Vaccine Efficacy when Vaccine Response is Random
β Scribed by Niels G. Becker; Sergey Utev
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 115 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-3847
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