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SUBMITTER: Marziano V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6721460 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marziano Valentina V Poletti Piero P Trentini Filippo F Melegaro Alessia A Ajelli Marco M Merler Stefano S
eLife 20190903
High-income countries are experiencing measles reemergence as the result of suboptimal vaccine uptake and marked immunity gaps among adults. In 2017, the Italian Government introduced mandatory vaccination at school entry for ten infectious diseases, including measles. However, sustainable and effective vaccination strategies targeting adults are still lacking. We use a data-driven model of household demography to estimate the potential impact on future measles epidemiology of a novel immunizati ...[more]