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[Plans Rubió P] Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Ciber of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. [Jambrina AM, Rabanal M] General Directorate for Healthcare Planning and Regulation, Department of Health of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Science, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. [Rius P] Council of the Pharmacists' Association of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. [Carmona G, Gironès M] Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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Departament de Salut
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Plans-Rubió, Pedro
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Carmona-Parcerisa, Glòria
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Rabanal, Manel
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Gironès, Montse
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Jambrina, Anna Maria
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Rius-Gavídia, Pilar
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2025-10-24T10:57:09Z
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2025-10-24T10:57:09Z
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2024-01-26T09:45:10Z
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2024-01-26T09:45:10Z
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2022-12-14
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Plans Rubió P, Jambrina AM, Rius P, Carmona G, Rabanal M, Gironès M. High Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness and Absence of Increased Influenza-like-Illness Epidemic Activity in the 2021-2022 Influenza Season in Catalonia (Spain) Based on Surveillance Data Collected by Sentinel Pharmacies. Vaccines. 2022 Dec 14;10(12):2140.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11351/10910
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10.3390/vaccines10122140
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http://hdl.handle.net/11351/10910
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Community pharmacies; Influenza epidemic; Sentinel pharmacies
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Farmacias comunitarias; Epidemia de gripe; Farmacias centinela
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Farmàcies comunitàries; Epidèmia de grip; Farmàcies sentinella
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Influenza surveillance and influenza vaccination are the key activities for preventing and controlling influenza epidemics. The study assessed the influenza surveillance and influenza vaccination data obtained from sentinel pharmacies of Catalonia, Spain, in the 2021-2022 influenza season. The sentinel pharmacies were selected from all community pharmacies to report all influenza-like illness (ILI) cases detected during the 2021-2022 influenza season and collect influenza surveillance and influenza vaccination data. The ILI cases were identified based on European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) criteria. The moving epidemic method (MEM) was used to assess the ILI epidemic activity. The screening method was used to assess influenza vaccination effectiveness in patients aged 65-or-more years old. The sentinel pharmacies reported 212 ILI cases with a negative COVID-19 test and a total number of 412 ILI cases. An absence of increased ILI epidemic activity was observed in the 2021-2022 influenza season based on two criteria: (1) Number of ILI cases reported per week in the 2021-2022 influenza season significantly lower than the MEM-based epidemic threshold. (2) Mean number of ILI cases reported per week in the 2021-2022 influenza season significantly lower than during the ILI/influenza epidemic periods detected from 2017 to 2020 using the same methodology. Influenza vaccination was effective in preventing ILI among patients aged 65-or-more-years old. The absence of the influenza epidemic during the 2021-2022 influenza season could be explained by influenza vaccination and COVID-19 prevention measures (wearing face masks, social distancing). The sentinel pharmacies provided influenza surveillance data not provided by traditional influenza surveillance systems.
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application/pdf
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Vaccines;10(12)
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https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10122140
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Attribution 4.0 International
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Grip - Vacunació - Catalunya
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DISEASES::Virus Diseases::RNA Virus Infections::Orthomyxoviridae Infections::Influenza, Human
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ANALYTICAL, DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES, AND EQUIPMENT::Therapeutics::Biological Therapy::Immunomodulation::Immunotherapy::Immunization::Immunotherapy, Active::Vaccination
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HEALTH CARE::Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services::Health Facilities::Pharmacies
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ENFERMEDADES::virosis::infecciones por virus ARN::infecciones por Orthomyxoviridae::gripe humana
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TÉCNICAS Y EQUIPOS ANALÍTICOS, DIAGNÓSTICOS Y TERAPÉUTICOS::terapéutica::terapia biológica::inmunomodulación::inmunoterapia::inmunización::inmunoterapia activa::vacunación
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ATENCIÓN DE SALUD::instalaciones, servicios y personal de asistencia sanitaria::centros sanitarios::farmacias
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High Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness and Absence of Increased Influenza-like-Illness Epidemic Activity in the 2021-2022 Influenza Season in Catalonia (Spain) Based on Surveillance Data Collected by Sentinel Pharmacies
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
