"Immunity, Herd" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The non-susceptibility to infection of a large group of individuals in a population. A variety of factors can be responsible for herd immunity and this gives rise to the different definitions used in the literature. Most commonly, herd immunity refers to the case when, if most of the population is immune, infection of a single individual will not cause an epidemic. Also, in such immunized populations, susceptible individuals are not likely to become infected. Herd immunity can also refer to the case when unprotected individuals fail to contract a disease because the infecting organism has been banished from the population.
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D032521
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G12.450.400
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Immunity, Herd" by people in Profiles.
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Declines in HPV vaccine type prevalence in women screened for cervical cancer in the United States: Evidence of direct and herd effects of vaccination. Vaccine. 2019 06 27; 37(29):3918-3924.
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Modeling insights into Haemophilus influenzae type b disease, transmission, and vaccine programs. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Jan; 18(1):13-20.
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Demographic variability, vaccination, and the spatiotemporal dynamics of rotavirus epidemics. Science. 2009 Jul 17; 325(5938):290-4.
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Pneumococcal vaccination of elderly adults: new paradigms for protection. Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Nov 15; 47(10):1328-38.
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Cost-effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: evidence from the first 5 years of use in the United States incorporating herd effects. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2006 Jun; 25(6):494-501.
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Measles outbreak in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2003. Int J Epidemiol. 2006 Apr; 35(2):299-306.