Herd Immunity Alters the Conditions for Performing Dose Schedule Comparisons: An Individual-based Model of Pneumococcal Carriage
BACKGROUND BACKGROUND METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSIONS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Ethics approval and consent... Consent for publication Availability of data and... Competing interests Funding Authors' contributions DECLARATIONS REFERENCES Mass vaccination of infants and toddlers with pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) has led to large declines in pneumococcal disease in countries around the world [1]. These vaccines currently contain 10 or 13 different capsular polysaccharides from Streptococcus pneumoniae, each conjugated to a protein carrier. In S. pneumoniae, the chemical structure of the capsular polys ...
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