An assessment of the screening method to evaluate vaccine effectiveness: the case of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in the United States.

An assessment of the screening method to evaluate vaccine effectiveness: the case of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in the United States.

The screening method, which employs readily available data, is an inexpensive and quick means of estimating vaccine effectiveness (VE). We compared estimates of effectiveness of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) against invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) using the screening and case...

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Main Authors: Adam L Cohen, Thomas Taylor, Monica M Farley, William Schaffner, Lindsey J Lesher, Kenneth A Gershman, Nancy M Bennett, Arthur Reingold, Ann Thomas, Joan Baumbach, Lee H Harrison, Susan Petit, Bernard Beall, Elizabeth Zell, Matthew Moore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3411566?pdf=render

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