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The replacement model was built to reflect the accumulated 15 year long experience with conjugate vaccines worldwide and the related scientific research activity. Some of the most recent relevant publications are listed on a separate page: [[References]].
  
 
[[File:Model_kuva_simplified2.jpg|thumb|center|600px|'''Figure 1. Illustration of the replacement model.''' The incidence of pneumococcal carriage (x-axis) and case-to-carrier ratios (y-axis) for vaccine serotypes (VT) and non-vaccine serotypes (NVT) before (panel A) and after vaccination (panel B). The incidences of disease (DVT and DNVT) are obtained by multiplication of the two quantities and correspond to the areas of the rectangles. After vaccination, VT carriage is eliminated and replaced by NVT carriage (panel B). The decrease in IPD incidence after vaccination is obtained as the difference between the eliminated VT disease and the replacing NVT disease. This is the area of the blue rectangle in panel  B.]]
 
[[File:Model_kuva_simplified2.jpg|thumb|center|600px|'''Figure 1. Illustration of the replacement model.''' The incidence of pneumococcal carriage (x-axis) and case-to-carrier ratios (y-axis) for vaccine serotypes (VT) and non-vaccine serotypes (NVT) before (panel A) and after vaccination (panel B). The incidences of disease (DVT and DNVT) are obtained by multiplication of the two quantities and correspond to the areas of the rectangles. After vaccination, VT carriage is eliminated and replaced by NVT carriage (panel B). The decrease in IPD incidence after vaccination is obtained as the difference between the eliminated VT disease and the replacing NVT disease. This is the area of the blue rectangle in panel  B.]]

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Question

How to predict the net effectiveness of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccination with a given set of serotypes when the vaccine is included in the national immunisation programme?

  • Focus is on the number of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) cases in different age groups.
  • The model is assumed to be valid in a population in which an infant pneumococcal conjugate vaccination has been in use for several years s.t. a new steady-state after vaccination has been reached. Coverage of vaccination and vaccine efficacy against carriage are assumed to be high enough to justify the assumtion of full elimination of vaccine type carriage among both the vaccinated and also, due to substancial herd effects, among the unvaccinated members of the population.
  • Vaccine type carriage is fully replaced by carriage of the non-vaccine types and the disease causing potential of different serotypes is not altered by vaccination.

Answer

Predicted number of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) cases in different age groups are obtained from the serotype replacement model (Nurhonen and Auranen, 2014).

Rationale

The epidemiological model for pneumococcal carriage and disease is based on the assumption that vaccination completely eliminates the vaccine type carriage in a vaccinated population and this carriage is replaced by non-vaccine type carriage. The implications of this replacement on the decrease or increse in pneumococcal disease then depend on the disease causing potential of the replacing types compared to that of the replaced types. To predict post vaccination disease only pre vaccination data on serotype specific carriage and disease is used.

The consequences of serotype replacement in the model depend on two key assumptions regarding the new steady-state after vaccination:

  1. the relative serotype proportions among the non-vaccine types are not affected by vaccination (proportionality assumption);
  2. the case-to-carrier ratios (the disease causing potentials) of individual serotypes remain at their pre-vaccination levels.

The implications of vaccination on disease incidence are assumed to be solely due to the elimination of vaccine type carriage and its replacement by non vaccine type carriage. An exception to this is when a possibility of efficacy against disease without any efficacy against carriage is assumed for certain serotypes.


The replacement model was built to reflect the accumulated 15 year long experience with conjugate vaccines worldwide and the related scientific research activity. Some of the most recent relevant publications are listed on a separate page: References.

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Figure 1. Illustration of the replacement model. The incidence of pneumococcal carriage (x-axis) and case-to-carrier ratios (y-axis) for vaccine serotypes (VT) and non-vaccine serotypes (NVT) before (panel A) and after vaccination (panel B). The incidences of disease (DVT and DNVT) are obtained by multiplication of the two quantities and correspond to the areas of the rectangles. After vaccination, VT carriage is eliminated and replaced by NVT carriage (panel B). The decrease in IPD incidence after vaccination is obtained as the difference between the eliminated VT disease and the replacing NVT disease. This is the area of the blue rectangle in panel B.



Computation



The following program illustrates the working of the replacement model. In its current implementation the code allows the user to specify 4 vaccine compositions and then displays the predicted IPD cases in Finland per year corresponding to these vaccines. The results are shown by serotype and by age category (<5 and 5+ year olds). Possible choices for vaccine compositions are: PCV10, PCV13, no vaccination and a user specified serotype composition. The program is based on the code in File S1 of Nurhonen and Auranen, 2014.

Instructions for user: Choose the desired vaccine compositions from the list below and then press "Run code".
You can compare 2,3 or 4 vaccine compositions. The results will be displayed on a separate tab. The default choice is PCV10 and PCV13.

Scenarios

Please choose the vaccines to be compared::
PCV-10
PCV-13
No vaccination

Do you want to specify another vaccine composition?:

User defined vaccine

Choose the serotypes for the user defined vaccine composition:
1
3
4
6A
6B
6C
7F
8
9N
9V
10
11
12
14
15
16
18C
19A
19F
20
22
23A
23F
33
35
38
Other

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Data


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See also

Tendering process for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
Parts of the assessment

Comparison criteria for vaccine   · Epidemiological modelling   · Economic evaluation

Background information

Sensitivity analysis · Replacement   · Pneumococcal vaccine products   · Finnish vaccination schedule   · Selected recent publications


Help for discussion and wiki editing

Pages in Finnish

Pneumokokkirokotteen hankinta  · Rokotteen vertailuperusteet · Epidemiologinen malli · Taloudellinen arviointi · Pneumokokkirokotteen turvallisuus


Work scheduling · Monitoring the effectiveness of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine · Glossary of vaccine terminology


References

Nurhonen M, Auranen K (2014) Optimal Serotype Compositions for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination under Serotype Replacement. PLoS Comput Biol 10(2): e1003477. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003477

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