- Maja Šubelj1,2, Veronika Učakar1, Alenka Kraigher1, Irena Klavs1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 National Institute of Public Health, Centre for Communicable Diseases, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2 European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, SwedenMaja ŠubeljMaja.Subelj nijz.si
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Citation style for this article: Šubelj Maja, Učakar Veronika, Kraigher Alenka, Klavs Irena. Adverse events following school-based vaccination of girls with quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in Slovenia, 2009 to 2013. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(14):pii=30187. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.14.30187 Received: 04 Apr 2015; Accepted: 04 Aug 2015
Adverse events following school-based vaccination of girls with quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in Slovenia, 2009 to 2013
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Adverse events following immunisation (AEFIs) with qHPV reported to the Slovenian AEFI Registry for the first four school years of the vaccination programme were analysed. We calculated annual reporting rates for 11–14 year-old vaccinees with AEFIs, using the number of qHPV doses distributed within the school-based vaccination programme as the denominator. Between September 2009 and August 2013, 211 AEFIs that occurred in 89 vaccinees were reported, a rate of 149.5 vaccinees with AEFI per 100,000 qHPV doses distributed. For five vaccinees, serious AEFIs (8.4 per 100,000 doses distributed) were reported. The highest reporting rates were for fatigue, headache, and fever (≥ 38.0⁰) (53.8, 40.3, and 35.3 per 100,000 qHPV doses distributed, respectively). As no AEFI resulted in permanent sequelae and they all were categorised as serious only due to the criterion of a minimum of one day of hospitalisation, this provides reassurance for the safety of our school-based HPV vaccination programme. Further AEFI surveillance is warranted to provide data for HPV vaccination programme monitoring and evaluation of its safety.

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