Seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness in children during 2010–2011 season

Influenza viruses circulation and the effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine in Romania during the season 2013-2014

Background Influenza is a serious disease, causing sickness in about 5-15% of the population every season, of which about up to 1-3% die every year in Europe. The epidemiological and virological surveillance of influenza provide information necessary to detect novel viruses with pandemic potential, to guide designing appropriate vaccines and prophylaxis. We aimed to investigate the profile of i...

Seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness among children, 2010–2012

BACKGROUND The annual differences in the seasonal influenza vaccine and the circulating strains make it necessary to assess influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) yearly. We assessed the effectiveness of the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine for the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 influenza seasons among children in Guangzhou, China. METHODS We conducted a 1:2 matched case-control study based on ...

Brief report: mid-season influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates for the 2013-2014 influenza season.

Mid-season influenza vaccine effectiveness for the 2012-2013 influenza season.

End-of-season influenza vaccine effectiveness in adults and children, United Kingdom, 2016/17

IntroductionThe United Kingdom is in the fourth season of introducing a universal childhood influenza vaccine programme. The 2016/17 season saw early influenza A(H3N2) virus circulation with care home outbreaks and increased excess mortality particularly in those 65 years or older. Virus characterisation data indicated emergence of genetic clusters within the A(H3N2) 3C.2a group which the 2016/...