Renal transplantation in HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients with advanced stages of kidney disease: equity in transplantation
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Introduction — This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine in pre- and full-term children aged 6–23 months.
Methods — The authors examined a cohort of 683,354 young children (7.7% preterm) over five influenza seasons (2004–2005 to 2008–2009) in Ontario, Canada. Vaccine effectiveness was estimated using influenza-coded ambulatory visits during virologically-confirmed influenza season periods as the outcome and multivariable Cox proportional hazards modeling.
Results — Full vaccination was associated with a 19% reduction in influenza-coded ambulatory visits(HR = 0.81; 95% CI, 0.68–0.97) in all children, and an 18% reduction in full-term children (HR = 0.82; 95% CI,0.68–0.99). The authors did not find significant vaccine effectiveness for preterm children. No benefit was found for partial vaccination.
Conclusions — In children younger than two years, only full influenza vaccination is associated with reduced influenza-coded ambulatory visits. Since the effectiveness of influenza vaccination in preterm children remains uncertain, further study of this highly vulnerable population is warranted.
Shen S, Campitelli MA, Calzavara A, Guttmann A, Kwong JC. Vaccine. 2013; 31(29):2974-8. Epub 2013 May 18.
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