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SUBMITTER: Freiesleben de Blasio B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3884708 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Freiesleben de Blasio Birgitte B Flem Elmira E Latipov Renat R Kuatbaeva Ajnagul A Kristiansen Ivar Sønbø IS
Emerging infectious diseases 20140101 1
The government of Kazakhstan, a middle-income country in Central Asia, is considering the introduction of rotavirus vaccination into its national immunization program. We performed a cost-effectiveness analysis of rotavirus vaccination spanning 20 years by using a synthesis of dynamic transmission models accounting for herd protection. We found that a vaccination program with 90% coverage would prevent ≈880 rotavirus deaths and save an average of 54,784 life-years for children <5 years of age. I ...[more]