[PDF] Top 20 Age groups and spread of influenza: implications for vaccination strategy

... active age groups transmitting influenza to other age groups outside of the school settings; in particular, to the elderly in the ...of vaccination on the disease incidence might ... See full document

... increased influenza activity and was related to a prevalent detection of influenza A(H3N2) by both sentinel and non-sentinel sources (approximately 95%) ...previous influenza seasons, when ... See full document

... of age are particularly at increased risk for influenza complications, which are responsible for the majority of hospitalizations and deaths each year ...the influenza infection in older adults, more ... See full document

... infection, influenza, and pneumococcal pneumonia thus substantially un- derestimate the true numbers of such events, although these val- ues do reflect the epidemic patterns for these ...mention influenza, ... See full document

... Influenza vaccination of health care workers In terms of influenza vaccination, health care work- ers are a particularly important population group to consider, for several ...easily ... See full document

... For every one of the 20 data subsets used in MrBayes, all segment tree files, with 2000 sampled trees each, were compared and searched for phylogenetic incongru- ences and reassortment events using a biclique enumer- ... See full document

... school- age children ranges from 50% to 100% for the prevention of laboratory-con fi rmed in fl uenza based on multiple studies using a variety of study designs from different in fl uenza ...the age ... See full document

... children age class up to 15 or 18 years old, justified by the available data and statistics, however the approach is transparent to this choice and analo- gous results to the ones presented can be reached by ... See full document

... target age groups when extending a seasonal influenza vaccination programme of at-risk individuals to those indi- viduals at low risk of developing complications following ...an age- ... See full document

... of age mixing on the transmission dynamics of ...target age group of chlamydia testing interventions in most countries, including the NCSP in ...fferent age groups in women and men over time ... See full document

... the spread of influenza. High vaccination coverage can reduce infectious disease spread within schools and the wider community through vaccine-induced immunity in vaccinated individuals and ... See full document

... without vaccination is compared with a spatially separate area with vaccination (as was the case with the English pilot study mentioned above), the expected number of directly prevented cases per 100,000 ... See full document

... that vaccination cam- paigns are unlikely to achieve a constant level of uptake over time; a more realistic assumption is that vacci- nation initially begins slowly due to logistical issues, builds to a plateau, ... See full document

... for influenza viruses [1,4]. To date, highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses have been isolated sporadically in China [38] and Indonesia ...a strategy for SIV surveil- lance not only in ... See full document

... the spread of ...different age- specific populations to overcome susceptibility risk due to less accurate knowledge of ...of influenza, can reduce risk perception information transfer on the network ... See full document

... symptomatic influenza. Discussion is being generated to mandate seasonal influenza vaccination for healthcare workers due to insufficient voluntary acceptance of the vaccine in this group, including ... See full document

... 2016 influenza vaccine contains influenza virus surface antigens (haemagglutinin and neuraminidase) of strains: A/California/7/2009 (H1N1) pdm09-like strain used (A/California/7/2009, X-181) 15 µg HA; ... See full document

... of influenza vac- cine in ...for influenza-related complications, and respon- dents’ beliefs and perceptions about influenza and the vaccine derived from the principal component analy- ... See full document

... iii) influenza vaccine effectiveness from meta-analysis and iv) vaccine coverage estimates from a population-based ...the influenza virus ...the influenza vaccination ... See full document

... of influenza vacci- nation status than 2 pediatric studies from 1 site (sensi- tivity 85%– 86%, specificity 66%– 69%, and ␬ coeffi- cient ...of age, whereas the other studies were per- formed in 2002–2003, ... See full document