"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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| 2008 | 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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Adamkiewicz TV, Silk BJ, Howgate J, Baughman W, Strayhorn G, Sullivan K, Farley MM. Effectiveness of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in children with sickle cell disease in the first decade of life. Pediatrics. 2008 Mar; 121(3):562-9.