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Pediatrics: Infant Hospitalizations and Mortality After Maternal Vaccination

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Pediatrics. 2018 Feb 20. pii: e20173310. doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-3310. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1][/h] Sukumaran L[SUP]1[/SUP], McCarthy NL[SUP]2[/SUP], Kharbanda EO[SUP]3[/SUP], Vazquez-Benitez G[SUP]3[/SUP], Lipkind HS[SUP]4[/SUP], Jackson L[SUP]5[/SUP], Klein NP[SUP]6[/SUP], Naleway AL[SUP]7[/SUP], McClure DL[SUP]8[/SUP], Hechter RC[SUP]9[/SUP], Kawai AT[SUP]10[/SUP], Glanz JM[SUP]11[/SUP], Weintraub ES[SUP]2[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] [h=4]BACKGROUND:[/h] The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices currently recommends pregnant women receive influenza and tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccines. There are limited studies of the long-term safety in infants for vaccines administered during pregnancy. We evaluate whether maternal receipt of influenza and Tdap vaccines increases the risk of infant hospitalization or death in the first 6 months of life.
[h=4]METHODS:[/h] We included singleton, live birth pregnancies in the Vaccine Safety Datalink between 2004 and 2014. Outcomes were infant hospitalizations and mortality in the first 6 months of life. We performed a case-control study matching case patients and controls 1:1 and used conditional logistic regression to estimate odds ratios for maternal exposure to influenza and/or Tdap vaccines in pregnancy.
[h=4]RESULTS:[/h] There were 413 034 live births in our population. Of these, 25 222 infants had hospitalizations and 157 infants died in the first 6 months of life. We found no association between infant hospitalization and maternal influenza (adjusted odds ratio: 1.00; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.96-1.04) or Tdap (adjusted odds ratio: 0.94; 95% CI: 0.88-1.01) vaccinations. We found no association between infant mortality and maternal influenza (adjusted odds ratio: 0.96; 95% CI: 0.54-1.69) or Tdap (adjusted odds ratio: 0.44; 95% CI: 0.17-1.13) vaccinations.
[h=4]CONCLUSIONS:[/h] We found no association between vaccination during pregnancy and risk of infant hospitalization or death in the first 6 months of life. These findings support the safety of current recommendations for influenza and Tdap vaccination during pregnancy.
Copyright ? 2018 by the American Academy of Pediatrics.


PMID: 29463582 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2017-3310
 
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