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Modeling in Immunization and Biosurveillance Research

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This chapter introduces the key concepts in mathematical modeling of vaccine-preventable diseases, and special features of vaccination such as herd immunity, disease elimination and waning immunity. It also reviews the interface of biosurveillance with monitoring and control of vaccine-preventable diseases.

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW, NSW, 2052, Sydney, Australia

    C. Raina Macintyre, James G. Wood & Zhanhai Gao

  2. Faculty of Health Science, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia

    Rochelle Watkins

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  1. Dept. Mathematics & Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

    Carlos Castillo-Chavez

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    Hsinchun Chen

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Macintyre, C.R., Wood, J.G., Watkins, R., Gao, Z. (2011). Modeling in Immunization and Biosurveillance Research. In: Castillo-Chavez, C., Chen, H., Lober, W., Thurmond, M., Zeng, D. (eds) Infectious Disease Informatics and Biosurveillance. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 27. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6892-0_12

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