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Influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates against influenza A(H3N2) and A(H1N1) pdm09 among children during school-based outbreaks in the 2016-2017 se

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Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2019 Oct 9. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2019.1677438. [Epub ahead of print] [h=1]Influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates against influenza A(H3N2) and A(H1N1) pdm09 among children during school-based outbreaks in the 2016-2017 season in Beijing, China.[/h]
Zhang L[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], van der Hoek W[SUP]3[/SUP], Krafft T[SUP]4[/SUP], Pilot E[SUP]4[/SUP], Asten LV[SUP]3[/SUP], Lin G[SUP]5[/SUP], Wu S[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Duan W[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Yang P[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]6[/SUP], Wang Q[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h] 1 Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control , Beijing , China. 2 Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine , Beijing , China. 3 Centre for Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surveillance, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment , Bilthoven , The Netherlands. 4 Department of Health, Ethics & Society, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University , Maastricht , The Netherlands. 5 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Nevada Las Vegas . 6 School of Public Health, Capital Medical University , Beijing , China.

[h=3]Abstract[/h] Background: Since 2007, trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) has been provided free-of-charge to primary, middle school and high school students in Beijing. However, there have been few school-based studies on influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE). In this report we estimated influenza VE against laboratory-confirmed influenza illness among school children in Beijing, China during the 2016-2017 influenza season. Methods: The VE of 2016-2017 TIV against laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infection among school-age children was assessed through a case-control design. Conditional logistic regression was conducted on matched case-control sets to estimate VE. The effect of prior vaccination on current VE was also examined. Results: All 176 samples tested positive for influenza A virus with the positive rate of 55.5%. The average coverage rate of 2016-2017 TIV among students across the 37 schools was 30.6%. The fully adjusted VE of 2016-2017 TIV against laboratory-confirmed influenza was 69% (95% CI: 51 to 81): 60% (95% CI: -15 to 86) for influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and 73% (95% CI: 52 to 84) for influenza A(H3N2). The overall VE for receipt of 2015-2016 vaccination only, 2016-2017 vaccination only, and vaccinations in both seasons was 46% (95% CI: -5 to 72), 77% (95% CI: 58 to 87), and 57% (95%CI: 17 to 78), respectively. Conclusions: Our study during school outbreaks found that VE of 2016-2017 TIV was moderate against influenza A(H3N2) as well as A(H1N1)pdm09viruses.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Children; China; Influenza; Outbreak; School; Vaccine effectiveness

PMID: 31596661 DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2019.1677438
 
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