Rotavirus Within Day Care Centers In Oxfordshire, UK: Characterization Of Partial Immunity

Main Category: Immune System / Vaccines
Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health;  Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses
Article Date: 15 May 2008 - 1:00 PDT

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Re-infecting pathogens are the latest target for infectious disease control methods. Historically, other infections that illicit life-long solid immunity have been controlled successfully using vaccination.

Mathematical techniques are well-established for such infections and have been used to design intervention strategies.

Until recently re-infecting pathogens have provided a greater public health challenge. Suitable chemotherapies are now becoming available for many re-infecting pathogens. Therefore it is essential to characterize the natural history of such infections so that suitable intervention strategies using the new generation of drugs can be designed and applied.

This research describes a method for this mathematical characterization.

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