Modeling Community- and Individual-Level Effects of Child-Care Center Attendance on Pneumococcal Carriage
Author(s) -
Susan S. Huang,
Joel Finkelstein,
Marc Lipsitch
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/428580
Subject(s) - carriage , medicine , attendance , center (category theory) , streptococcus pneumoniae , pneumococcal conjugate vaccine , pneumococcal infections , pediatrics , family medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , economics , economic growth , chemistry , biology , crystallography , antibiotics
The prevalence of pneumococcal carriage varies widely across communities. This variation is not fully explained by risk factors at the individual level but may be explained by factors producing effects at both the individual and community levels, such as child-care center (CCC) attendance.
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