Influence of Population Immunosuppression and Past Vaccination on Smallpox Reemergence

Influence of Population Immunosuppression and Past Vaccination on Smallpox Reemergence

We built a SEIR (susceptible, exposed, infected, recovered) model of smallpox transmission for New York, New York, USA, and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, that accounted for age-specific population immunosuppression and residual vaccine immunity and conducted sensitivity analyses to estimate th...

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Main Authors: C. Raina MacIntyre, Valentina Costantino, Xin Chen, Eva Segelov, Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Anthony Kelleher, Mohana Kunasekaran, John Michael Lane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-04-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
smallpox
modeling
immunocompromised
residual immunity
viruses
HIV/AIDS
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/4/17-1233_article

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