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Epidemiology of transmissible diseases after elimination.
Abstract
Elimination of an infectious disease is often understood to mean the total absence of cases in a population. This situation can occur only if the entire population is immune as a result of either natural disease or vaccination. However, this costly and unrealistic scenario is not necessary to ensure elimination, more appropriately defined as a situation in which sustained transmission cannot occur and secondary spread from importations of disease will end naturally, without intervention. The authors describe the size and duration of outbreaks caused by imported infections after indigenous transmission has been eliminated. They show that the status of the elimination process can be monitored by assessing the proportion of cases imported and the distribution of outbreak sizes. Measles in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom provides a good example of the relevance of these criteria. Surveillance of the size and duration of these outbreaks enables maintenance of elimination to be monitored.
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Metadata
- Authors
- De Serres, G., Gay, N. J., & Farrington, C. P.
- Venue
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2000-06-01
- Volume
- 151
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1039-1048
- ISSN
- 0002-9262 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-6256
- OpenAlex
- W1987172805
- Cited by
- 198
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 14.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Open Research Online (The Open University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Applied Mathematics › Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Virology and Viral Diseases
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- disease elimination, imported infections, outbreak size, outbreak duration, measles, secondary transmission
- MeSH terms
- Canada, Communicable Disease Control, Disease Outbreaks, United Kingdom, Humans, Measles, Models, Theoretical, Population Surveillance, Travel, United States
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