Incidence of influenza virus infection among pregnant women: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers pregnant women to be a risk group for severe influenza disease. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate influenza disease incidence in pregnant women in order to inform estimates of influenza vaccine impact for low-resource countries.

Methods

We performed electronic literature searches, targeting studies on the following outcomes in pregnant women: attack rate, hospitalization rate, intensive care unit admission rate, mortality rate, and disability-adjusted life years lost. Only original studies published in peer-reviewed journals that had laboratory confirmation for influenza virus infection and included population-based incidence rates with denominator data were included. We summarized study characteristics in d

SUBMITTER: Katz MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5450114 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature