American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on March 21, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 167(9):1140-1141; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn051
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
RE: "A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NEW ZEALAND MENINGOCOCCAL B VACCINE"
1 Department of Community Paediatrics, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
2 Department of Biomedical Statistics, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
3 Department of Maori and Pacific Health, School of Medical Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
(e-mail: d.lennon@auckland.ac.nz)
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Although Kelly et al. (1) demonstrate the effectiveness of the outer-membrane-vesicle, strain-specific, meningococcal vaccine known as "MeNZB" in the overall New Zealand population with reported vaccine effectiveness of 73 percent (95 percent confidence interval: 52, 85), this may not reflect the true picture.
First, there is an indication of the poor fit of the model (1, figure 1), where the model's