Pregnancy Outcomes among Women Receiving rVSVΔ-ZEBOV-GP Ebola Vaccine during the Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola

Autor: Jennifer K. Legardy-Williams, Rosalind J. Carter, Susan T. Goldstein, Olamide D. Jarrett, Elena Szefer, Augustin E. Fombah, Sarah C. Tinker, Mohamed Samai, Barbara E. Mahon
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 26, Iss 3, Pp 541-548 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid2603.191018
Popis: Little information exists regarding Ebola vaccine rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP and pregnancy. The Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola (STRIVE) randomized participants without blinding to immediate or deferred (18–24 weeks postenrollment) vaccination. Pregnancy was an exclusion criterion, but 84 women were inadvertently vaccinated in early pregnancy or became pregnant 15 days after vaccination) (45% [10/22]). No congenital anomalies were detected among 44 live-born infants examined. These data highlight the need for Ebola vaccination decisions to balance the possible risk for an adverse pregnancy outcome with the risk for Ebola exposure.
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