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"No matter how large the proportion of im-munes in the total population, if some pockets of the community, such as low economic neighborhoods, contain a large enough number of susceptibles among whom contacts are frequent, the epidemic potential in these neighborhoods will remain high.... Success of a systematic immunization program requires knowl-edge of the age and subgroup distribution of the sus-ceptibles and maximum effort to reduce their concen-tration throughout the community, rather than aiming to reach any specified overall proportion of the popu-lation" (1, p. 186).
(1, p. 186) = Fox JP, Elveback L, Scott W, et al. Herd immunity: basic concept and relevance to public health immunization prac-tices. Am J Epidemiol 1971;94:179-89.
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Citatet hittades i följande artikel: Invited Commentary on "Herd Immunity: Basic Concept and Relevance to Public Health Immunization Practices" (1995) - Paul Fine
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This is the great message of the paper and one that has proven its worth repeatedly in subsequent years, as vaccination programs have stum-bled on the fact that neither vaccine uptake nor contact patterns are randomly distributed in real populations