SynthesisEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2016
Herd effect from influenza vaccination in non-healthcare settings: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials and observational studies.
Synthesis in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Estimates of Inactivated Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Among Children in Senegal: Results From 2 Consecutive Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trials in 2010 and 2011.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Trial
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- Effectiveness of Seasonal Influenza Vaccination in Children in Senegal During a Year of Vaccine Mismatch: A Cluster-randomized Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Trial
- Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) for Children for the Prevention of Influenza Illness in Sweden: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2026Article
- Reactogenicity of an Inactivated, Split-Virion Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine in Infants and Children Aged ≥6 Months to <9 Years.Vaccines · 2025Article
- Cost-Effectiveness of the Use of Adjuvanted Quadrivalent Seasonal Influenza Vaccine in Older Adults in Ireland.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Influenza.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Review
- Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccines in the HIVE Household Cohort Over 8 Years: Is There Evidence of Indirect Protection?Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- [Health Technology Assessment (HTA) of the introduction of influenza vaccination for Italian children with Fluenz TetraJournal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2021Article
- Seasonal influenza vaccination in Kenya: an economic evaluation using dynamic transmission modelling.BMC medicine · 2020Article
- Effects of Influenza Vaccination in the United States During the 2017-2018 Influenza Season.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
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12 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Influenza vaccination programmes are assumed to have a herd effect and protect contacts of vaccinated persons from influenza virus infection. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Global Health and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) from inception to March 2014 for studies assessing the protective effect of influenza vaccination vs no vaccination on influenza virus infections in contacts. We calculated odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using a random-effects model. Of 43,082 screened articles, nine randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and four observational studies were eligible. Among the RCTs, no statistically significant herd effect on the occurrence of influenza in contacts could be found (OR: 0.62; 95% CI: 0.34-1.12). The one RCT conducted in a community setting, however, showed a significant effect (OR: 0.39; 95% CI: 0.26-0.57), as did the observational studies (OR: 0.57; 95% CI: 0.43-0.77). We found only a few studies that quantified the herd effect of vaccination, all studies except one were conducted in children, and the overall evidence was graded as low. The evidence is too limited to conclude in what setting(s) a herd effect may or may not be achieved.
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