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Fig. 5 | BMC Infectious Diseases

Fig. 5

From: Influence of social contact patterns and demographic factors on influenza simulation results

Fig. 5

Simulation results for the number of influenza infections which are annually prevented by QIV vaccination in a population of 100,000 individuals (black: children (C) 0–17 years, dark grey: adults (A) 18–64 years; dark grey: elderly (E) 65+ years). a combining each country’s specific vaccination coverage with its demography and contact matrix (coefficient of variation [CV] for C: 65.2 %, A: 47.7 %, E: 36.2 %, all: 41.4 %); bd using the same unified vaccination coverage for all countries: b combining each country’s demography with its contact matrix (CV for C: 31.1 %, A: 34.9 %, E: 22.1 %, all: 27.9 %); c combining the Finnish demography with each country’s contact matrix (CV for C: 30.1 %, A: 30.0 %, E: 14.2 %, all: 22.6 %); d combining each country’s demography with the Belgian contact matrix (CV for C: 8.6 %, A: 7.2 %, E: 17.9 %, all: 8.0 %). Comparing the variability in the four graphs (either by age group or for the total), using Brown-Forsythe-Test, yielded non-significant results (p > 0.05). For each set of simulation parameters, differences are based on 1000 simulations with vaccination and 1000 simulations without vaccination whereby each simulation ran for 20 years

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