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Influenza vaccine effectiveness, disease burden in children, adolescents with sickle cell disease

from Pediatric Blood & Cancer

Influenza vaccine effectiveness, disease burden in children, adolescents with sickle cell disease Pediatric Blood & Cancer Data are limited on the burden of influenza and seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) in children with sickle cell disease (SCD). Researchers used a prospectively collected clinical registry of SCD patients 6 months to 21 years of age to determine the influenza cases per 100 patient‐years, vaccination rates, and a test‐negative case‐control study design to estimate influenza VE against medically attended laboratory‐confirmed influenza infection. READ MORE

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