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Vaccination in pulses: a strategy for global eradication of measles and polio?
1Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. jk@dna.bio.warwick.ac.uk
Trends in Microbiology
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Recent American successes against poliomyelitis and measles have been attributed to repeated 'pulse' vaccination campaigns. Whilst logistic and economic constraints will be crucial, a deeper epidemiological understanding of the mechanism, strengths and weaknesses of pulse vaccination will optimize the chances of success elsewhere in the world.