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Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine for adults and children in preventing laboratory-confirmed influenza in primary care in the United Kingdom: 2015/16 end-of-season results

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The United Kingdom (UK) is in the third season of introducing universal paediatric influenza vaccination with a quadrivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV). The 2015/16 season in the UK was initially dominated by influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and then influenza of B/Victoria lineage, not contained in that season's adult trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV). Overall adjusted end-of-season vaccine effectiveness (VE) was 52.4% (95% confidence interval (CI): 41.0-61.6) against influen...

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Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.38.30348

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ORCID:
0000-0002-9069-2885
Publisher:
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Publisher's website
Journal:
Eurosurveillance Journal website
Volume:
21
Issue:
38
Article number:
30348
Publication date:
2016-09-22
Acceptance date:
2016-08-30
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EISSN:
1560-7917
ISSN:
1025-496X
Pmid:
27684603

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