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| Martin I MeltzerSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Values for preventing influenza-related morbidity and vaccine adverse events in childrenLisa A Prosser
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 3:18. 2005....
Estimating the risk of rabies transmission to humans in the U.S.: a Delphi analysisSagar A Vaidya
Combined Internal Medicine Pediatrics Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10128, USA
BMC Public Health 10:278. 2010..Controlled studies on rabies are clearly not possible. Thus, the limited data on risk has led to the frequent administration of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), often in inappropriate circumstances...- The cost effectiveness of vaccinating against Lyme diseaseM I Meltzer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 5:321-8. 1999..005, economic benefits will be greatest when vaccination is used on the basis of individual risk, specifically, in persons whose probability of contracting Lyme disease is >0.01... 
Health economics and prioritising health careMartin I Meltzer
Division of Emerging Diseases and Surveillance Systems, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Lancet 372:612-3. 2008- An economic analysis of annual influenza vaccination of childrenMartin I Meltzer
Mailstop D 59, OS OD NCID CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 23:1004-14. 2005..The probability of death, though rare, was the most influential distribution in the model. The number of high-risk children that receive influenza vaccine should be maximized to achieve improved health outcomes as well as cost savings... - The economics of vaccinating restaurant workers against hepatitis AM I Meltzer
Office of the Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 19:2138-45. 2001..positive NPV) if done only during epidemics and if it cost < $20/employee. Vaccinating restaurant employees is unlikely to be economical from either the restaurant owner or the societal perspective, even during hepatitis A epidemics... - The economic impact of pandemic influenza in the United States: priorities for interventionM I Meltzer
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 5:659-71. 1999..Vaccinating 60% of the population would generate the highest economic returns but may not be possible within the time required for vaccine effectiveness, especially if two doses of vaccine are required... - A review of the economics of the prevention and control of rabies. Part 2: Rabies in dogs, livestock and wildlifeM I Meltzer
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pharmacoeconomics 14:481-98. 1998..The economics of using oral vaccines to prevent raccoon rabies invading uninfected areas has yet to be examined... - A review of the economics of the prevention and control of rabies. Part 1: Global impact and rabies in humansM I Meltzer
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pharmacoeconomics 14:365-83. 1998..With regard to pre-exposure vaccination, routine use of pre-exposure has generally not been shown to be cost effective... - Risks and benefits of preexposure and postexposure smallpox vaccinationMartin I Meltzer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30345, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:1363-70. 2003.... - Use of a reduced (4-dose) vaccine schedule for postexposure prophylaxis to prevent human rabies: recommendations of the advisory committee on immunization practicesCharles E Rupprecht
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases proposed, CDC, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
MMWR Recomm Rep 59:1-9. 2010..Prompt rabies PEP combining wound care, infiltration of RIG into and around the wound, and multiple doses of rabies cell-culture vaccine continue to be highly effective in preventing human rabies... 
Economics of an adolescent meningococcal conjugate vaccination catch-up campaign in the United StatesIsmael R Ortega-Sanchez
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 46:1-13. 2008..The objective of our study was to analyze the cost-effectiveness of a catch-up vaccination campaign with quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine for children and adolescents aged 11-17 years...- Public health impact of including two lineages of influenza B in a quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccineCarrie Reed
Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30033, United States
Vaccine 30:1993-8. 2012..The additional protection provided by including a second lineage of influenza B could result in a modest reduction in influenza-associated outcomes... - Cost-effectiveness and potential impact of rotavirus vaccination in the United StatesMarc Alain Widdowson
Respiratory and Enteric Virus Branch, Mailstop A34, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatrics 119:684-97. 2007..We assessed the health and economic impacts of a national rotavirus immunization program in the United States... - Estimated global mortality associated with the first 12 months of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus circulation: a modelling studyFatimah S Dawood
Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Lancet Infect Dis 12:687-95. 2012..We aimed to estimate the global number of deaths during the first 12 months of virus circulation in each country... - Estimating effect of antiviral drug use during pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak, United StatesCharisma Y Atkins
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 17:1591-8. 2011..Public health officials should consider these estimates an indication of success of treating patients during the 2009 pandemic and a warning of the need for renewed planning to cope with the next pandemic... - Optimizing treatment of antimicrobial-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeaeKakoli Roy
Office of Workforce and Career Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 11:1265-73. 2005..Similarly, culture-based testing and susceptibility surveillance are optimal when the prevalence of gonorrhea is < 13%; nonculture-based testing is optimal (cost-minimizing) when gonorrhea prevalence is > or = 13%... - West Nile virus economic impact, Louisiana, 2002Armineh Zohrabian
Division of Adult and Community Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:1736-44. 2004..4 million dollars medical and US 6.5 million dollars nonmedical costs) and a US 9.2 million dollars cost of public health response. These data indicate a substantial short-term cost of the WNV disease epidemic in Louisiana... - Viral shedding duration of pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus during an elementary school outbreak--Pennsylvania, May-June 2009Achuyt Bhattarai
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 52:S102-8. 2011..Highest and lowest virus titers detected, 2 and 5 days following fever onset, were 3.2 and 1.2 log(10) TCID(50)/mL respectively. Overall, shedding duration in children and adults were similar to seasonal influenza viruses... - Estimating the burden of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in the United States (April 2009-April 2010)Sundar S Shrestha
Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 52:S75-82. 2011..These results confirm the necessity of a concerted public health response to pH1N1... - Cost effectiveness of rabies post exposure prophylaxis in the United StatesPraveen Dhankhar
Division of Emerging Infections and Surveillance Services, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS D59, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States
Vaccine 26:4251-5. 2008..The uncertainty caused by the wide range of cost effectiveness can only be resolved through analysis of data describing rabies transmission risk in a variety of scenarios... - Prophylaxis after exposure to Coxiella burnetiiClaire E Moodie
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1558-66. 2008..burnetii exposure is >or=7% (pregnant women using trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole = 16%)... - Economic impact of Lyme diseaseXinzhi Zhang
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 12:653-60. 2006..These findings will help assess the economics of current and future prevention and control efforts... - Excess mortality, hospital stay, and cost due to candidemia: a case-control study using data from population-based candidemia surveillanceJuliette Morgan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 26:540-7. 2005..Prior studies lack broad patient and hospital representation or cost-related information that accurately reflects current medical practices... - Evidence for a 4-dose vaccine schedule for human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in previously non-vaccinated individualsCharles E Rupprecht
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases, 1600 Clifton Road N E, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 27:7141-8. 2009.... - Modeling the national pediatric vaccine stockpile: supply shortages, health impacts and cost consequencesSundar S Shrestha
Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Mailstop K 10, Atlanta, GA 30329 4018, USA
Vaccine 28:6318-32. 2010..Using the VacStockpile policy makers can readily evaluate the implications of assumptions and decide which set of assumptions they wish to use in planning... - FluSurge--a tool to estimate demand for hospital services during the next pandemic influenzaXinzhi Zhang
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Office of Surveillance, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Med Decis Making 26:617-23. 2006..To assess the impact of pandemic influenza on hospital services... - Estimates of US influenza-associated deaths made using four different methodsWilliam W Thompson
Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Influenza Other Respi Viruses 3:37-49. 2009..A wide range of methods have been used for estimating influenza-associated deaths in temperate countries. Direct comparisons of estimates produced by using different models with US mortality data have not been published... - Estimating medical practice expenses from administering adult influenza vaccinationsMargaret S Coleman
Health Services Research and Evaluation Branch, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS E52, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 23:915-23. 2005..71, per-shot losses ranged from US$ 2.16 to USD 34.56. More research is needed to determine less expensive delivery settings and/or whether third-party payers need to make higher payments for adult vaccinations... - Vaccinating first-year college students living in dormitories for Meningococcal disease: an economic analysisR Douglas Scott
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Scott, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Prev Med 23:98-105. 2002..Surveillance of meningococcal disease among U.S. college students found an elevated rate of this disease among first-year students living in dormitories... - Closing schools in response to the 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus in New York City: economic impact on householdsRebekah H Borse
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 52:S168-72. 2011..If other children were in the household, it was less likely that an adult took time off work. The findings of our study will be important when developing future pandemic school-closure guidance... - Collecting data to assess SARS interventionsR Douglas Scott
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:1290-2. 2004..We propose a minimum dataset to capture data needed to examine the basic reproduction rate, case status and criteria, symptoms, and outcomes of SARS... - Maxi-Vac: planning mass smallpox vaccination clinicsMichael L Washington
Immunization Services Division, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 11:542-9. 2005..Users can alter the number of available staff, which will probably be the greatest limiting factor, to determine the impact on the number of persons vaccinated per 24-hour period... - Estimates of the prevalence of pandemic (H1N1) 2009, United States, April-July 2009Carrie Reed
Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop A32, Atlanta, GA 30033, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 15:2004-7. 2009..Correcting for under-ascertainment using a multiplier model, we estimate that 1.8 million-5.7 million cases occurred, including 9,000-21,000 hospitalizations... - Pandemic influenza, reopening schools, and returning to workMartin I Meltzer
National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop D59, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:509-10. 2008 - Egg quality assurance programs and egg-associated Salmonella enteritidis infections, United StatesGerald A Mumma
Prevention Effectiveness Branch, Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:1782-9. 2004..14% decrease in S. Enteritidis incidence (p < 0.05). These data indicate that EQAPs probably played a major role in reducing S. Enteritidis illness in these states... - Household effects of school closure during pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USAThomas L Gift
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 16:1315-7. 2010..Students spent 77% of the closure days at home, 69% of students visited at least 1 other location, and 79% of households reported that adults missed no days of work to watch children... - Planning for baseline medical care needs of a displaced population after a disasterSundar S Shrestha
Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response Drs Shrestha and Sosin and National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Dr Meltzer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 6:335-41. 2012..The MedCon:PreEvent tool can assist disaster planners to prepare for medical care needs of large numbers of evacuees and consider re-evaluating the approach to utilizing and augmenting medical care services... - Laboratory surge capacity and pandemic influenzaMartin I Meltzer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop D59, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 16:147-8. 2010.... - The household-level economics of using permethrin-treated bed nets to prevent malaria in children less than five years of ageMartin I Meltzer
Office of Surveillance, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 68:149-60. 2003..50 U.S. dollars; P = 0.002), leaving little opportunity for household-level, ITN-induced direct savings. The widespread adoption of the ITNs will therefore probably require a subsidy... - Multiple contact dates and SARS incubation periodsMartin I Meltzer
Office of Surveillance, National Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:207-9. 2004..Multiple contact dates cannot be used in standard statistical analytic techniques, however. I present a simple spreadsheet-based method that uses multiple contact dates to calculate the possible incubation periods of SARS... - Increased hospitalizations of elderly patientsMartin I Meltzer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:847-8. 2008..Both articles report increases in disease among those >65 years of age... - Owner valuation of rabies vaccination of dogs, ChadSalome Dürr
Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1650-2. 2008..Owners would pay approximately 400-700 CFA francs (US $0.78-$1.36)/animal. To vaccinate >or=70% of dogs, and thus interrupt rabies transmission, health officials should substantially subsidize these vaccinations... - Influenza pandemic preparednessKathleen F Gensheimer
Department of Human Services, Augusta, Maine, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:1645-8. 2003 - Cost-effectiveness of a pediatric dengue vaccineDonald S Shepard
Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Heller School, Room G19, Mail Stop 035, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454 9110, USA
Vaccine 22:1275-80. 2004..Eventually, vaccination may be able to replace environmental control as a strategy for dengue prevention and be cost saving... - Economic analysis of influenza vaccination and treatmentMartin I Meltzer
Ann Intern Med 138:608; author reply 608-9. 2003 - Household-based costs and benefits of vaccinating healthy children in daycare against influenza virus: results from a pilot studyMaria Pisu
Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education COERE, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 4410, USA
Pharmacoeconomics 23:55-67. 2005..Vaccinating children against influenza virus may reduce infections in immunised children and household contacts, thereby reducing the household-based cost associated with respiratory illnesses... - Health benefits, risks, and cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccination of childrenLisa A Prosser
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 12:1548-58. 2006..Thus, routine vaccination of all children is likely less cost-effective than vaccination of all children ages 6-23 months plus all other children at high risk... - Re-evaluating the burden of rabies in Africa and AsiaDarryn L Knobel
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, Scotland
Bull World Health Organ 83:360-8. 2005..To quantify the public health and economic burden of endemic canine rabies in Africa and Asia... - Cost of distributing oral raccoon-variant rabies vaccine in Ohio: 1997-2000Pirouz Foroutan
Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH 43210, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 220:27-32. 2002..In addition, accurately measured distribution costs can be used to perform an economic cost-benefit analysis for an ORV program... - Syndromic surveillance in bioterrorist attacksArnold F Kaufmann
Emerg Infect Dis 11:1487-8. 2005 - Direct and indirect costs of rabies exposure: a retrospective study in southern California (1998-2002)Stephanie A Shwiff
National Wildlife Research Center, Wildlife Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, CO 80521 2154, USA
J Wildl Dis 43:251-7. 2007..About one third of the total cost for suspected human rabies exposure was attributed to indirect costs (e.g., lost wages, transportation, and day-care fees), most of which were not reimbursable to the patient... - Human rabies prevention--United States, 2008: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization PracticesSusan E Manning
Preventive Medicine Residency, Office of Workforce and Career Development, CDC, USA
MMWR Recomm Rep 57:1-28. 2008.... - Perceptions of bed nets and malaria prevention before and after a randomized controlled trial of permethrin-treated bed nets in western KenyaJane A Alaii
Centre for Vector Biology and Control Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya
Am J Trop Med Hyg 68:142-8. 2003..036 (control) for re-treating a bed net. This study suggests that, despite two years of experience of use, bed nets and insecticides would not be purchased as a household priority in this impoverished rural community...