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Vaccines (Basel) . Review of Analyses Estimating Relative Vaccine Effectiveness of Cell-Based Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine in Three Consecutive US

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Vaccines (Basel)


. 2022 Jun 3;10(6):896.
doi: 10.3390/vaccines10060896.
Review of Analyses Estimating Relative Vaccine Effectiveness of Cell-Based Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine in Three Consecutive US Influenza Seasons


Constantina Boikos[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ian McGovern[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Deborah Molrine[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Justin R Ortiz[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Joan Puig-Barberà[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Mendel Haag[SUP] 5 [/SUP]



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Abstract

The adaptation of influenza seed viruses in egg culture can result in a variable antigenic vaccine match each season. The cell-based quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV4c) contains viruses grown in mammalian cell lines rather than eggs. IIV4c is not subject to egg-adaptive changes and therefore may offer improved protection relative to egg-based vaccines, depending on the degree of match with circulating influenza viruses. We summarize the relative vaccine effectiveness (rVE) of IIV4c versus egg-based quadrivalent influenza vaccines (IIV4e) to prevent influenza-related medical encounters (IRMEs) from three retrospective observational cohort studies conducted during the 2017-2018, 2018-2019, and 2019-2020 US influenza seasons using the same underlying electronic medical record dataset for all three seasons-with the addition of linked medical claims for the latter two seasons. We identified IRMEs using diagnostic codes specific to influenza disease (ICD J09*-J11*) from the records of over 10 million people. We estimated rVE using propensity score methods adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity, geographic location, week of vaccination, and health status. Subgroup analyses included specific age groups. IIV4c consistently had higher relative effectiveness than IIV4e across all seasons assessed, which were characterized by different dominant circulating strains and variable antigenic drift or egg adaptation.

Keywords: cell-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine; egg-based influenza vaccine; influenza; relative vaccine effectiveness.
 
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