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Journal Article
Effectiveness of Maternal Influenza Immunization in Mothers and Infants
2008
Overview
Influenza infection causes significant morbidity in pregnant woman and neonates. In this randomized study of 340 pregnant women in Bangladesh, influenza vaccination during pregnancy was found to decrease laboratory-proven influenza infection in neonates by 63% and febrile respiratory illness in the mothers by more than a third.
In pregnant women in Bangladesh, influenza vaccination during pregnancy was found to decrease laboratory-proven influenza infection in neonates by 63% and febrile respiratory illness in the mothers by more than a third.
Infection with influenza virus is associated with serious illness and hospitalization among pregnant women
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and young infants, including neonates.
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Maternal influenza infection has been associated with an increased risk of maternal hospitalization, fetal malformation, and other illnesses.
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Influenza infection in young infants often prompts hospitalization and can predispose the infants to bacterial pneumonia or otitis media.
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Studies from North America
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and Hong Kong
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have shown high rates of hospitalization among infants with influenza, especially those under 6 months of age.
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The rate of hospitalization for such infants is higher than that for other high-risk groups. A . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Subject
/ Adult
/ Babies
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Infant
/ Influenza Vaccines - adverse effects
/ Influenza Vaccines - immunology
/ Influenza, Human - epidemiology
/ Influenza, Human - immunology
/ Influenza, Human - prevention & control
/ Male
/ Pneumococcal Vaccines - immunology
/ Respiratory Tract Infections - epidemiology
/ Respiratory Tract Infections - prevention & control
/ Vaccines, Inactivated - adverse effects
/ Vaccines, Inactivated - immunology
/ Viral diseases of the respiratory system and ent viral diseases
