Commentary: The Polio Model—Does it apply for polio?
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The polio model. Does it apply to polio?
BACKGROUND According to the polio model, severity of disease increases with age at infection. Firstborn children and people belonging to small families are generally infected later and should accordingly have a higher risk of severe polio. However, this model does contradict other explanations of severity of childhood infections including the intensive-exposure model. METHODS To evaluate the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/31.1.187