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Influenza Vaccination of Pregnant Women and Protection of Their Infants
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BACKGROUND: There are limited data on the efficacy of vaccination against confirmed influenza in pregnant women with and those without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and protection of their infants. METHODS: We conducted two double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV3) in South Africa during 2011 in pregnant women infected with HIV and during 2011 and 2012 in pregnant women who were not infected. The immunogenicity, safety, and efficacy of IIV3 in pregnant women and their infants were evaluated until 24 weeks after birth. Immune responses were measured with a hemagglutination inhibition (HAI) assay, and influenza was diagnosed by means of reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) assays of respiratory samples. RESULTS: The study cohorts included 2116 pregnant women who were not infected with HIV and 194 pregnant women who were infected with HIV. At 1 month after vaccination, seroconversion rates and the proportion of participants with HAI titers of 1:40 or more were higher among IIV3 recipients than among placebo recipients in both cohorts. Newborns of IIV3 recipients also had higher HAI titers than newborns of placebo recipients. The attack rate for RT-PCR-confirmed influenza among both HIV-uninfected placebo recipients and their infants was 3.6%. The attack rates among HIV-uninfected IIV3 recipients and their infants were 1.8% and 1.9%, respectively, and the respective vaccine-efficacy rates were 50.4% (95% confidence interval [CI], 14.5 to 71.2) and 48.8% (95% CI, 11.6 to 70.4). Among HIV-infected women, the attack rate for placebo recipients was 17.0% and the rate for IIV3 recipients was 7.0%; the vaccine-efficacy rate for these IIV3 recipients was 57.7% (95% CI, 0.2 to 82.1). CONCLUSIONS: Influenza vaccine was immunogenic in HIV-uninfected and HIV-infected pregnant women and provided partial protection against confirmed influenza in both groups of women and in infants who were not exposed to HIV. (Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others; ClinicalTrials.gov numbers, NCT01306669 and NCT01306682.).
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- Authors
- Madhi, S. A., Cutland, C. L., Kuwanda, L., Weinberg, A., Hugo, A., Jones, S., Adrian, P. V., van Niekerk, N., Treurnicht, F., Ortiz, J. R., Venter, M., Violari, A., Neuzil, K. M., Simões, E. A. F., Klugman, K. P., & Nunes, M. C.
- Affiliations
- National Health Laboratory Service (ZA)
- Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit (ZA)
- University of Colorado Anschutz (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Colorado School of Public Health (US)
- Emory University (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2014-09-04
- Volume
- 371
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 918-931
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2151524246
- Cited by
- 556
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 59 · 2019: 80 · 2018: 58 · 2017: 66 · 2016: 59 · 2015: 44 · 2014: 9
- FWCI
- 44.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1002747)
- Pfizer
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Sanofi
- Gilead Sciences
- National Research Foundation
- Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000154, TR000154)
- Sanofi Pasteur
- Medical Research Council
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (TR000154)
- Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (UL1 TR000154, TR000154)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Respiratory viral infections research
- Social Sciences › Health › Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Keywords
- influenza vaccination, pregnancy, HIV infection, trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine, infant protection, vaccine efficacy, seroconversion, hemagglutination inhibition, mother-to-child transmission, South Africa, maternal and child health, infant HIV prevention, maternal morbidity, maternal morbidity reduction
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Double-Blind Method, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Premature, Influenza, Human, Influenza Vaccines, Male, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications, Infectious, Pregnancy Outcome, South Africa, Vaccines, Inactivated, HIV Infections, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, Young Adult
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