Although influenza vaccination is recommended during pregnancy as standard of care, limited surveillance data are available for monitoring uptake. ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

We investigated whether childhood infection-related hospitalisation (IRH, a marker of severity) was associated with subsequent adult CVD hospitalisation. ...

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• 2015
• May 2015

Results from this linked population study suggests that there are differences in maternal infection by virus type and support the provision of seasonal vaccines ...

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• 2017
• September 2017

Influenza vaccine was offered to all children aged 6-59 months resident in Western Australia in 2008, and we wished to evaluate the effectiveness of this immunisation programme. ...

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• 2010
• July 2010

Influenza diagnosis codes had high specificity (98.6%) and modest positive predictive value (PPV; 84.1%) and sensitivity (86.1%) for a laboratory-confirmed... ...

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• 2013
• July 2013

The Western Australian Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness study commenced in 2008 to evaluate a new program to provide free influenza vaccine to all children... ...

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• 2011
• February 2011

The authors previously reported an increased risk of hospitalisation for acute lower respiratory infection up to age 2 years in children delivered by... ...

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• 2012
• May 2012

Maternal influenza vaccination was associated with a reduction in the incidence of hospital admission for acute respiratory illness among infants <6 months old ...

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• 2016
• October 2016

Existing evidence supporting the safety of vaccination during pregnancy should be used to reassure pregnant women and improve vaccine uptake in pregnancy ...

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• 2016
• December 2016

We conducted a randomized controlled trial of short message service (SMS) reminders for influenza vaccination. ...

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• 2017
• November 2017

Although antenatal influenza vaccination is an important public health intervention for preventing serious infection in pregnant women and newborns, reported... ...

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• 2016
• January 2016

Christopher Blyth CC MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD Director, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases; Co-Head, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Honorary and NHMRC Emerging ...

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