Abstract
Information systems of infectious diseases are created mainly to record acute diseases. Vaccination data is among the captured data.
Based on legal obligations, The State Institute for Drug Control (SUKL) also obtains data on vaccination failure. Objective: To verify the suitability of the information system EPIDAT and SUKL for partial evaluation of vaccination impact.
Results: In 2016 and 2017 a total of 4,358 resp. 5,881 rotavirus diseases were reported; a history of vaccination against these infections was reported 67 and 86 patients. There was a significantly higher risk of hospitalization in unvaccinated patients than in vaccinated children of the same age (x2 = 46.6; p = 0.000000).
An infant who died of this infection was also unvaccinated. In the reported years, SUKL received 9 resp. 15 vaccination failure reports.
Discussion and Conclusion: While the Infectious Disease Information System cannot substitute long-term prospective monitoring of vaccinated individuals in evaluating vaccination efficacy, it can provide interesting information that can contribute to monitoring vaccination efficacy. To obtain more accurate vaccination data from both systems, it is desirable to improve the quality of reporting.
The long-term exceptionality of vaccination failure against rotavirus infections is another argument for the promotion and spread of this vaccination. (C) 2019, Medakta s.r.o.. All rights reserved.