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Spotlight influenza: Laboratory-confirmed seasonal influenza in people with acute respiratory illness: a literature review and meta-analysis, WHO European Region, 2004 to 2017 (2021)
Journal Article
Belazi, S., Olsen, S. J., Brown, C., Green, H. K., Mook, P., Nguyen-Van-Tam, J., Penttinen, P., & Lansbury, L. (2021). Spotlight influenza: Laboratory-confirmed seasonal influenza in people with acute respiratory illness: a literature review and meta-analysis, WHO European Region, 2004 to 2017. Eurosurveillance, 26(39), https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2021.26.39.2000343

BackgroundAcross the World Health Organization European Region, there are few estimates of the proportion of people seeking medical care for influenza-like illness or acute respiratory infections and who have laboratory-confirmed seasonal influenza i... Read More about Spotlight influenza: Laboratory-confirmed seasonal influenza in people with acute respiratory illness: a literature review and meta-analysis, WHO European Region, 2004 to 2017.

Co-infection in critically ill patients with COVID-19: an observational cohort study from England (2021)
Journal Article
Baskaran, V., Lawrence, H., Lansbury, L., Webb, K., Safavi, S., Zainuddin, I., Huq, T., Eggleston, C., Ellis, J., Thakker, C., Charles, B., Boyd, S., Williams, T., Phillips, C., Redmore, E., Platt, S., Hamilton, E., Barr, A., Venyo, L., Wilson, P., …Shen Lim, W. (2021). Co-infection in critically ill patients with COVID-19: an observational cohort study from England. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 70(4), Article 001350. https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.001350

Introduction: During previous viral pandemics, reported co-infection rates and implicated pathogens have varied. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, a large proportion of severe illness and death was complicated by bacterial co-infection, predominantly S... Read More about Co-infection in critically ill patients with COVID-19: an observational cohort study from England.

Decline in seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness with vaccination program maturation: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Okoli, G. N., Racovitan, F., Abdulwahid, T., Hyder, S. K., Lansbury, L., Righolt, C. H., Mahmud, S. M., & Nguyen-Van-Tam, J. S. (2021). Decline in seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness with vaccination program maturation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 8(3), Article ofab069. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab069

Objectives

Evidence suggests repeated influenza vaccination may reduce vaccine effectiveness (VE). Using influenza vaccination program maturation (number of years since program inception) [PM] as proxy for population-level repeated vaccination, we... Read More about Decline in seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness with vaccination program maturation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.