Genesis of Antibiotic Resistance: XLI Herd Immunity Mitigates Waning Immunity
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For infectious diseases where immunization can offer lifelong protection, a variety of simple models can be used to explain the utility of vaccination as a control method. However, for many diseases, immunity wanes over time and is subsequently enhanced (boosted) by asymptomatic encounters with the infection. The study of this type of epidemiological process requires a model formulation that ca...
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عنوان ژورنال: The FASEB Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0892-6638,1530-6860
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.483.10