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Thakkar and McCarthy suggest that periodicity in measles incidence artifactually drives our estimates of a 2- to 3-year duration of measles “immune-amnesia.” We show that periodicity has a negligible effect… Click to show full abstract
Thakkar and McCarthy suggest that periodicity in measles incidence artifactually drives our estimates of a 2- to 3-year duration of measles “immune-amnesia.” We show that periodicity has a negligible effect relative to the immunological signal we detect, and demonstrate that immune-amnesia is largely undetectable in small populations with large fluctuations in mortality of the type they use for illustration.
Keywords:
term measles;
response comment;
long term;
comment long;
mortality;
measles induced
Journal Title: Science
Year Published: 2019
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Journal Title: Science
Year Published: 2019
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