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| Susan HahneSummaryAffiliation: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Effectiveness of antibiotics given before admission in reducing mortality from meningococcal disease: systematic reviewSusan J M Hahné
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, Netherlands
BMJ 332:1299-303. 2006..To review the evidence for effectiveness of treatment with antibiotics before admission in reducing case fatality from meningococcal disease...
Hepatitis B virus transmission in The Netherlands: a population-based, hierarchical case-control study in a very low-incidence countryS J M Hahné
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Epidemiol Infect 136:184-95. 2008..For adult females and heterosexual males, this was largely explained by having a foreign partner. For children this was partly explained by parenteral exposures abroad...
Rubella outbreak in the Netherlands, 2004-2005: high burden of congenital infection and spread to CanadaSusan Hahne
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, The Netherlands
Pediatr Infect Dis J 28:795-800. 2009..In The Netherlands and Canada the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine coverage is high. In 2004 a rubella outbreak started in the Netherlands in a population subgroup with low coverage, with subsequent spread to Canada...
Assessment of serological evidence for mumps virus infection in vaccinated childrenSabine Dittrich
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Vaccine 29:9271-5. 2011..7% based on clinical symptoms among vaccinated children. This finding has important implications when studying transmission patterns, strain virulence, as well as mumps vaccine effectiveness to protect from infection rather than disease...
Estimation of measles vaccine efficacy and critical vaccination coverage in a highly vaccinated populationMichiel van Boven
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J R Soc Interface 7:1537-44. 2010..971, 95% credible interval: 0.961-0.978). We discuss the implications for measles elimination from highly vaccinated populations...
The epidemiology of varicella and herpes zoster in The Netherlands: implications for varicella zoster virus vaccinationHester de Melker
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, P O Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Vaccine 24:3946-52. 2006..Insight into epidemiology of varicella zoster is needed for the assessment of the desirability of introduction of routine varicella zoster vaccination...
A cost-utility analysis of antenatal screening to prevent congenital rubella syndromeA K Lugnér
RIVM Centre for Infectious Disease Control, Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Epidemiol Infect 138:1172-84. 2010..The programme would be cost-effective (euro1100/QALY gained) when assuming an acceptability of vaccination of 20% in women belonging to orthodox protestant risk groups...
Prevention of perinatal hepatitis B virus transmission in the Netherlands, 2003-2007: Children of Chinese mothers are at increased risk of breakthrough infectionSusan Hahne
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Vaccine 30:1715-20. 2012..All schedules included a birth dose of hepatitis B immunoglobuline (HBIg). We assessed determinants of perinatal HBV transmission and determinants of anti-HBs titers in infants born to HBsAg positive mothers...
Antenatal screening for HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis in the Netherlands is effectiveEline L M Op de Coul
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
BMC Infect Dis 11:185. 2011..Here, we describe the evaluation of the effectiveness of antenatal screening in the Netherlands for 2006-2008 for HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and syphilis in preventing mother-to-child transmission, by using various data sources...
Measles outbreak, the Netherlands, 2008Susan Hahne
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, the Netherlands S Hahne, L Mollema, C Swaan, H de Melker, R van Binnendijk Municipal Health Service, The Hague, the Netherlands E van Velzen, E de Coster and Municipal Health Service, Utrecht, the Netherlands M J M te Wierik
Emerg Infect Dis 16:567-9. 2010..This outbreak was the largest measles outbreak in the Netherlands since 1999-2000, when >/=3,200 cases, including 3 deaths, were reported (2)...
Transmission of novel influenza A(H1N1) in households with post-exposure antiviral prophylaxisMichiel van Boven
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
PLoS ONE 5:e11442. 2010..These are widely believed to be key in supporting propagating spread, and it is therefore of importance to assess the transmission levels of the virus in such settings...
Air travel as a risk factor for introduction of measles in a highly vaccinated populationRobert S van Binnendijk
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Vaccine 26:5775-7. 2008....
