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Volume 11, Number 8—August 2005
Research

Modeling Control Strategies of Respiratory Pathogens

Babak Pourbohloul*1Comments to Author , Lauren Ancel Meyers†‡1, Danuta M. Skowronski*, Mel Krajden*, David M. Patrick*, and Robert C. Brunham*
Author affiliations: *University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; †University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA; ‡Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

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Figure 5

Comparing general vaccination and ring vaccination strategies. General vaccination protects a percentage of persons chosen randomly from the population with an efficacy determined by the vaccine itself. Ring vaccination involves isolating the patient (and the associated reduction in the infectious period) followed by targeted vaccination of contacts. The degree to which contacts are successfully protected depends on the success of contact tracing and the efficacy of the vaccine. See the Figure 3

Figure 5. . Comparing general vaccination and ring vaccination strategies. General vaccination protects a percentage of persons chosen randomly from the population with an efficacy determined by the vaccine itself. Ring vaccination involves isolating the patient (and the associated reduction in the infectious period) followed by targeted vaccination of contacts. The degree to which contacts are successfully protected depends on the success of contact tracing and the efficacy of the vaccine. See the Figure 3 caption for further details.

Main Article

1These authors contributed equally to this work.

2For the purposes of this manuscript, "airborne" refers to respiratory pathogens that are spread through respiratory secretions and can be either airborne, such as tuberculosis, or dropletborne, such as SARS.

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