Vaccination and herd immunity to infectious diseases
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...He pointed out the parallels between such a composite model and that depicting the eradication of infectious diseases by vaccination of a proportion of the 'patches' (i.e. hosts) harbouring infection (Anderson & May 1985)....
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...Though much of this work has been published in journals and in language unfamiliar to the medical and public health communities, its isolation has been reduced in recent years largely through the publications of Anderson and May and their colleagues (8, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 28, 29, 31, 33, 36)....
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...across demographic groups, among others (Anderson and May, 1985)....
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...R0 refers to the average number of secondary infections caused by a single infectious individual introduced into a completely susceptible population (Anderson and May, 1985)....
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