Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Effectiveness and Timing of Vaccination during School Measles Outbreak

Axel Antonio Bonačić Marinović

, Corien Swaan, Ole Wichmann, Jim van Steenbergen, and Mirjam Kretzschmar

Author affiliations: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (A.A. Bonačić Marinović, C. Swaan, J. van Steenbergen, M. Kretzschmar); University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (A.A. Bonačić Marinović, M. Kretzschmar); Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany (O. Wichmann); and Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands (J. van Steenbergen)

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Measles outbreak size histograms calculated with calibrated models. The y-axis indicates the number of model instances counted in their corresponding outbreak size histogram bin, indicated in the x-axis. The dotted line indicates the limit from which large and small outbreaks are defined. BVR, baseline vaccination ratio; R0, reproduction number, Reff, effective reproduction number.

Figure 2. . . . Measles outbreak size histograms calculated with calibrated models. The y-axis indicates the number of model instances counted in their corresponding outbreak size histogram bin, indicated in the x-axis. The dotted line indicates the limit from which large and small outbreaks are defined. BVR, baseline vaccination ratio; R₀, reproduction number, R_eff, effective reproduction number.

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