Abstract
The continuing morbidity and mortality associated with Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) infections, especially methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) infections, have motivated calls to make S. aureus vaccine development a research priority. We developed a decision analytic computer simulation model to determine the potential economic impact of a S. aureus vaccine for neonates. Our results suggest that a S. aureus vaccine for the neonatal population would be strongly cost-effective (and in many situations dominant) over a wide range of vaccine efficacies (down to 10%) for vaccine costs (≤$500), and S. aureus attack rates (≥1%).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 4653-4660 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Vaccine |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 29 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 23 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Economics
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Vaccine
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Molecular Medicine
- Immunology and Microbiology(all)
- veterinary(all)
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Infectious Diseases