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Edna Kara
Researcher at Public Health England
Publications - 10
Citations - 1044
Edna Kara is an academic researcher from Public Health England. The author has contributed to research in topics: Internal medicine & Vaccination. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications receiving 876 citations.
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Effectiveness of maternal pertussis vaccination in England: an observational study
Gayatri Amirthalingam,Nick Andrews,Helen Campbell,Sonia Ribeiro,Edna Kara,Katherine Donegan,Norman K. Fry,Elizabeth Miller,Mary Ramsay +8 more
TL;DR: The assessment of the programme of pertussis vaccination in pregnancy in England is consistent with high vaccine effectiveness, which probably results from protection of infants by both passive antibodies and reduced maternal exposure, and will provide valuable information to international policy makers.
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A Case-Control Study to Estimate the Effectiveness of Maternal Pertussis Vaccination in Protecting Newborn Infants in England and Wales, 2012–2013
Gavin Dabrera,Gayatri Amirthalingam,Nick Andrews,Helen Campbell,Sonia Ribeiro,Edna Kara,Norman K. Fry,Mary Ramsay +7 more
TL;DR: Maternal pertussis vaccination is effective in preventing pertussedis infection in infants aged <8 weeks and may be considered in other countries experiencing high levels of pertussIS notifications.
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SARS-CoV-2 positivity in offspring and timing of mother-to-child transmission: living systematic review and meta-analysis
John Allotey,Shaunak Chatterjee,Tania Kew,Andrea Gaetano,Elena Stallings,Silvia Fernández-García,Magnus Yap,Jameela B. Sheikh,Heidi Lawson,Dyuti Coomar,A. Dixit,Dengyi Zhou,Rishab Balaji,M. Littmoden,Yasmin King,Luke Debenham,Anna Clavé Llavall,K. Ansari,Gurimaan Sandhu,A. Banjoko,Kate Walker,Keelin O'Donoghue,Madelon van Wely,J. Van Leeuwen,Elena Kostova,Heinke Kunst,Asma Khalil,Vanessa Brizuela,Nathalie Broutet,Edna Kara,Caron Kim,Anna Thorson,Olufemi T Oladapo,Javier Zamora,Mercedes Bonet,Lynne M. Mofenson,Shakila Thangaratinam +36 more
TL;DR: Evidence suggests confirmed vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2, although this is likely to be rare, and Severity of maternal covid-19 appears to be associated with Sars-Cov-2 positivity in offspring.
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Survey of Household Contacts of Infants With Laboratory-confirmed Pertussis Infection During a National Pertussis Outbreak in England and Wales
Edna Kara,Helen Campbell,Sonia Ribeiro,Norman K. Fry,David Litt,Seyi D Eletu,Gayatri Amirthalingam +6 more
TL;DR: Household contacts play an important role in the transmission of pertussis to infants and when identified, mothers were the main sources of infection.
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Knowledge, attitudes, experience and behaviour of frontline health care workers during the early phase of 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, Birmingham, UK:
Obaghe Edeghere,Tom Fowler,Tom Fowler,Fay Wilson,Richard Caspa,Smriti Raichand,Edna Kara,Sumi Janmohamed Rampling,Babatunde Olowokure +8 more
TL;DR: HCWs were prepared to provide an essential health care response during the pandemic even when the severity of disease was unclear, but more needs to be done to change health care workers’ negative attitudes towards taking antivirals and receiving influenza vaccination.