TY - JOUR AU - Flasche, Stefan AU - Ojal, John AU - Le Polain de Waroux, Olivier AU - Otiende, Mark AU - O’Brien, Katherine L. AU - Kiti, Moses AU - Nokes, D. James AU - Edmunds, W. John AU - Scott, J. Anthony G. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/06/07 TI - Assessing the efficiency of catch-up campaigns for the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: a modelling study based on data from PCV10 introduction in Kilifi, Kenya JO - BMC Medicine SP - 113 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - The World Health Organisation recommends the use of catch-up campaigns as part of the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) to accelerate herd protection and hence PCV impact. The value of a catch-up campaign is a trade-off between the costs of vaccinating additional age groups and the benefit of additional direct and indirect protection. There is a paucity of observational data, particularly from low- and middle-income countries, to quantify the optimal breadth of such catch-up campaigns. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0882-9 DO - 10.1186/s12916-017-0882-9 ID - Flasche2017 ER -