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OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofab069
Keywords
seasonal influenza; systematic review; test-negative design; vaccination program; vaccine effectiveness
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- Manitoba Training Program Fellowship Award
- Centre on Aging Betty Havens Memorial Graduate Fellowship Award
- Evelyn Shapiro Award
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Repeated influenza vaccination may reduce vaccine effectiveness, with lower pooled VE observed as vaccination program matures. Older adults show significantly higher reductions in VE against all influenza viruses, indicating the potential impact of vaccination program maturation on seasonal VE.
Background. Evidence suggests that repeated influenza vaccination may reduce vaccine effectiveness (VE). Using influenza vaccination program maturation (PM; number of years since program inception) as a proxy for population-level repeated vaccination, we assessed the impact on pooled adjusted end-season VE estimates from outpatient test-negative design studies. Methods. We systematically searched and selected full-text publications from January 2011 to February 2020 (PROSPERO: CRD42017064595). We obtained influenza vaccination program inception year for each country and calculated PM as the difference between the year of deployment and year of program inception. We categorized PM into halves (cut at the median), tertiles, and quartiles and calculated pooled VE using an inverse-variance random-effects model. The primary outcome was pooled VE against all influenza. Results. We included 72 articles from 11 931 citations. Across the 3 categorizations of PM, a lower pooled VE against all influenza for all patients was observed with PM. Substantially higher reductions were observed in older adults (>= 65 years). We observed similar results for A(H1N1)pdm09, A(H3N2), and influenza B. Conclusions. The evidence suggests that influenza VE declines with vaccination PM. This study forms the basis for further discussions and examinations of the potential impact of vaccination PM on seasonal VE.
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