Trivalent inactivated seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness for the prevention of laboratory-confirmed influenza in a Scottish population 2000 to 2009

Simpson, C R and Lone, N I and Kavanagh, K and Ritchie, L D and Robertson, C and Sheikh, Azziz and McMenamin, J (2015) Trivalent inactivated seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness for the prevention of laboratory-confirmed influenza in a Scottish population 2000 to 2009. Eurosurveillance, 20 (8). 2. ISSN 1560-7917

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Abstract

To evaluate seasonal trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) in Scotland, we performed a Scotland-wide linkage of patient-level primary care, hospital and virological swab data from 3,323 swabs (pooling data over nine influenza seasons: 2000/01 to 2008/09). We estimated the VE for reducing real-time RT-PCR-confirmed influenza using a test-negative study design. Vaccination was associated with a 57% (95% confidence interval (CI): 31–73) reduction in the risk of PCR-confirmed influenza. VE was 60% (95% CI: 22–79) for patients younger than 65 years and clinically at risk of serious complications from influenza, and 19% (95% CI: −104 to 68) for any individual 65 years and older. Vaccination was associated with substantial, sustained reductions in laboratory-confirmed influenza in the general population and younger patients in clinical at-risk groups.

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Simpson, C R, Lone, N I, Kavanagh, K ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2679-5409, Ritchie, L D, Robertson, C, Sheikh, Azziz and McMenamin, J;
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