Cornelius Remschmidt

TL;DR: Investigations identified sprouts as the most likely outbreak vehicle, underlining the need to take into account food items that may be overlooked during subjects' recall of consumption.

TL;DR: Results suggest that household transmission of influenza can be reduced by the use of NPI, such as facemasks and intensified hand hygiene, when implemented early and used diligently.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis revealed significant VE of PPV23 against both IPD and pneumococcal pneumonia by any serotype in the elderly, comparable to the efficacy of PCV13 against vaccine-serotype disease in a recent clinical trial in elderly people.

TL;DR: Both confounding by indication and healthy vaccinee bias are likely to operate simultaneously in observational studies on influenza VE, and cohort studies using administrative data bases with unspecific outcomes should no longer be used to measure the effects of influenza vaccination.

TL;DR: Asymptomatic/subclinical infections occur infrequently, but may be associated with substantial amounts of viral shedding, and shedding characteristics appear to be independent of (seasonal or pandemic) (sub)type, age, antiviral therapy or vaccination; however the power to find moderate differences was limited.