A concern over terminology in vaccine effectiveness studies

Benjamin J Cowling; Sheena G Sullivan

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A concern over terminology in vaccine effectiveness studies
Benjamin J Cowling¹ , Sheena G Sullivan^2,3,4
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Affiliations: ¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China ² WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ³ Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California ⁴ Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Citation style for this article: Cowling Benjamin J, Sullivan Sheena G. A concern over terminology in vaccine effectiveness studies. Euro Surveill. 2018;23(10):pii=18-00103. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.10.18-00103 Received: 07 Mar 2018; Accepted: 08 Mar 2018

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