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A model-based evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of paediatric and elderly vaccination against pneumococcal infection in England

2026-03-02 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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Infection with pnuemococcus bacteria is generally mild but can be more severe in the young and elderly, causing invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Although paediatric pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) programmes and elderly pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) programmes have reduced cases, we estimate that pneumococcal infection still leads to direct health care costs of around {pound}68M and approximately 16 thousand QALY losses in England per y...

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