An Age-Structured Model of Pre- and Post-Vaccination Measles Transmission Export

@article{citeulike:5019340, abstract = {An infection like measles does not spread uniformly in populations from Europe and North America. Of special importance is a pronounced age-dependency in the contact rates, because of increased infection transmission within schools. Therefore an age-structured epidemiologic model is investigated here, which also pays attention to the fact that children are promoted grade-wise into and out of school. Simulation results are contrasted with pre- and post-vaccination measles data from England and Wales and the model is shown to perform better than previous global mass-action models. 10.1093/imammb/1.2.169}, author = {Schenzle, Dieter}, citeulike-article-id = {5019340}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imammb/1.2.169}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://imammb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/1/2/169}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6600102}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=6600102}, doi = {10.1093/imammb/1.2.169}, journal = {Math Med Biol}, keywords = {age-structure, children, data, disease, mmr, modeling, uk}, month = {January}, number = {2}, pages = {169--191}, posted-at = {2009-06-30 07:50:24}, priority = {4}, title = {An Age-Structured Model of Pre- and Post-Vaccination Measles Transmission}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imammb/1.2.169}, volume = {1}, year = {1984} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5019340 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5019340 N2 - An infection like measles does not spread uniformly in populations from Europe and North America. Of special importance is a pronounced age-dependency in the contact rates, because of increased infection transmission within schools. Therefore an age-structured epidemiologic model is investigated here, which also pays attention to the fact that children are promoted grade-wise into and out of school. Simulation results are contrasted with pre- and post-vaccination measles data from England and Wales and the model is shown to perform better than previous global mass-action models. 10.1093/imammb/1.2.169 IS - 2 JF - Math Med Biol EP - 191 TI - An Age-Structured Model of Pre- and Post-Vaccination Measles Transmission VL - 1 SP - 169 KW - age-structure KW - children KW - data KW - disease KW - mmr KW - modeling KW - uk AU - Schenzle, Dieter PY - 1984/01/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imammb/1.2.169 ER -