Adult vaccination strategies for the control of pertussis in the United States: an economic evaluation including the dynamic population effects.

BACKGROUND: Prior economic evaluations of adult and adolescent vaccination strategies against pertussis have reached disparate conclusions. Using static approaches only, previous studies failed to analytically include the indirect benefits derived from herd immunity as well as the impact of vaccinat...

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Main Authors: Laurent Coudeville, Annelies Van Rie, Denis Getsios, J Jaime Caro, Pascal Crépey, Van Hung Nguyen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2707617?pdf=render