Estimates of pandemic influenza vaccine effectiveness in Europe, 2009-2010: results of Influenza Monitoring Vaccine Effectiveness in Europe (I-MOVE) multicentre case-control study

• Author(s): Valenciano, Marta ; Kissling, Esther ; Cohen, Jean-Marie ; Oroszi, Beatrix ; Barret, Anne-Sophie ; Rizzo, Caterina ; Nunes, Baltazar ; Pitigoi, Daniela ; Larrauri Cámara, Amparro ; Mosnier, Anne ; Horvath, Judith K. ; O'Donnell, Joan ; Bella, Antonino ; Guiomar, Raquel ; Lupulescu, Emilia ; Savulescu, Camelia ; Ciancio, Bruno C. ; Kramarz, Piotr ; Moren, Alain
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/3826
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde
• Subject(s): Pandemic Influenza; Vaccine Effectiveness; I-MOVE; Estados de Saúde e de Doença
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde

Description

A multicentre case-control study based on sentinel practitioner surveillance networks from seven European countries was undertaken to estimate the effectiveness of 2009-2010 pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccines against medically attended influenza-like illness (ILI) laboratory-confirmed as pandemic influenza A (H1N1) (pH1N1).