Prevention and Control of Influenza: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
PsycEXTRA DatasetPublished 1 January 2001
C B Bridges, Keiji Fukuda, N J Cox, J A Singleton
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The 2004 recommendations include new or updated information regarding 1) influenza vaccine for children aged 6-23 months; 2) vaccination of health-care workers with live, attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV); 3) personnel who may administer LAIV; and the assessment of vaccine supply and timing of influenza vaccination.
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These recommendations update information concerning the vaccine and antiviral agents available for controlling influenza during the 1997-98 influenza season (superseding MMWR 1996;45[No. RR-5]:1-24). The principal changes include information about a) the influenza virus strains included in the trivalent vaccine for 1997-98, b) the vaccination of pregnant and breastfeeding women, and c) side effects and adverse reactions.
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245 Citations2000James Hedrick, Asher Barzilai +5 more
Zanamivir was effective in shortening the duration and severity of influenza symptoms and was well-tolerated among children 5 to 12 years of age.
PEDIATRICSInfluenza A Infection Is an Important Cause of Febrile Seizures
241 Citations2001Susan S. Chiu, Catherine Y. C. Tse +2 more
It was shown that hospitalized children infected with infection A had a higher risk of febrile seizures than those who were infected with parainfluenza or adenovirus (OR 1.97), and complex febRIle seizures, particularly multiple febrian seizures at the time of presentation, have been thought to carry an adverse long-term prognosis.
PsycEXTRA DatasetGeneral Recommendations on Immunization: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
238 Citations2002William Atkinson, Larry K. Pickering +4 more
This report is a revision of General Recommendations on Immunization and updates the 1994 statement by the ACIP, and includes expansion of the discussion of vaccination spacing and timing, recommendations for vaccinations administered by an incorrect route, and information regarding needle-free injection technology.
BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & GynaecologyInfluenza virus infection in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy: a clinical and seroepidemiological study
234 Citations2000William L. Irving, D. K. James +8 more
Whether maternal influenza virus infection in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy results in transplacental transmission of infection, maternal auto‐antibody production or an increase in complications of pregnancy is investigated.
The Journal of Infectious DiseasesProtection of Infants from Infection with Influenza A Virus by Transplacentally Acquired Antibody
229 Citations1980Jennifer M. Puck, W. Paul Glezen +2 more
Because passively transferred maternal antibody to influenza virus may prevent symptomatic infection in young infants, vaccination of pregnant women could be beneficial.
BMJIncidence and recall of influenza in a cohort of Glasgow healthcare workers during the 1993–4 epidemic: results of serum testing and questionnaire: Table 1
228 Citations1996Alexander Elder, Barbara O’Donnell +3 more
The incidence of influenza was determined in a cohort of healthcare workers at four acute hospitals in Glasgow who had serum stored for a routine post-vaccination test for antibody to hepatitis B between 1 February and 26 February.
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsNeuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in healthy adults
228 Citations2006Tom Jefferson, Mark Jones +5 more
Clinical Infectious DiseasesAre Swine Workers in the United States at Increased Risk of Infection with Zoonotic Influenza Virus?
226 Citations2005Kendall P. Myers, Christopher W. Olsen +6 more
Occupational exposure to pigs greatly increases workers' risk of swine influenza virus infection, and swine workers should be included in pandemic surveillance and in antiviral and immunization strategies.
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