Article
SEROTYPE REPLACEMENT OF VERTICALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES THROUGH PERFECT VACCINATION
2008-06-01
Abstract excerpt
Strain replacement occurs when after a vaccination campaign one (or more) strains decline in prevalence while another strain (or strains) rise in prevalence. Differential effectiveness of the vaccine is the widely accepted and the most important mechanism which leads to this replacement effect. Recent theoretical studies have suggested that strain replacement may occur even if the vaccine is perfect, that is, the...
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- Literature Corpus work
- aa76e99e-69b5-5e34-86bc-e7a6c44aae07
- DOI
- 10.1142/s0218339008002484
