Effectiveness of Vaccination During Pregnancy to Prevent Infant Pertussis
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...We judged the most recent cohort study from the USA by Becker-Dreps et al. [45] as having a serious RoB because no clear case definition based on laboratory criteria was reported and the proportion of lab-confirmed cases in the subgroups was unknown....
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...Five [16, 43, 45, 47, 49] of the eight studies were judged as having a serious RoB, while three studies had a moderate RoB [44, 46, 48]....
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...Abbreviations 95% CI: 95% confidence interval; GRADE: Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation; ICD: International classification of diseases; LBW: Low birth weight; NICU: Neonatal intensive care unit; PICO: Population, intervention, comparator, outcome; PRISMA: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses; RCT: Randomized controlled trial; RoB: Risk of bias; RR: Relative risk; Tdap: Tetanus-diphtheriaacellular pertussis; VE: Vaccine effectiveness; VLBW: Very low birth weight Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Dr. Eva Hummers, Göttingen/Germany, who is a member of the pertussis working group of the German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO), for contributing to the discussions of our results....
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...Of the 11 non-randomized studies, we judged eight as having a serious RoB and three studies to show a critical RoB (Additional file 1: Table S2)....
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...Pertussis in infants 0–3 months of age Three cohort [16, 43, 44] and two case-control studies [47, 49] reported on the effectiveness of Tdap vaccination in pregnancy to prevent pertussis in infants 0–2 months of age (Table 3)....
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...We ran separate Cox models to estimate the VE of maternal Tdap during pregnancy in preventing infant pertussis during 2 follow-up periods: (1) model for the first 2 months of life (as described above) and (2) models for the first 12 months of life....
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...We identified 3 groups of infants based on the Tdap vaccination status during pregnancy of their birth mother: (1) vaccinated (Tdap vaccination during pregnancy at least 8 days before birth); or (2) vaccinated too close to birth to boost maternal antibody transfer (Tdap vaccination 1–7 days before birth); or (3) unvaccinated (no Tdap vaccination during pregnancy)....
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