XYXuemei Yan

Xuemei Yan

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Xuemei Yan has a total of 7 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:

  • Nicholas C. Grassly

    MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK

    2 shared publications
  • Fengkun Chen

    Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    1 shared publication
  • Margarita Pons-Salort

    MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    1 shared publication
  • Margarita Pons-Salort

    Imperial College London

    1 shared publication
  • Yuanhua Liu

    Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    1 shared publication
  • Zhaorui Chang

    Division of Infectious Disease, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

    1 shared publication

Latest Publications

  • Open Access

    The efficacy and effectiveness of enterovirus A71 vaccines against hand, foot, and mouth disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    by Xuemei Yan, Yuanhua Liu, Fengkun Chen, Zhaorui Chang, Zhijie Zhang, Margarita Pons-Salort, Nicholas C. Grassly

    Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is a major cause of severe hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among children in the Asia-Pacific region. Here we review randomised clinical trial data and post-licensure effectiveness studies of inactivated EV-A71 vaccines following their development and licensure in China since late 2015. We searched PubMed, Web of Science Core Collection, Elsevier ScienceDirect, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Wanfang Data on 20 May 2024 with no date restriction in English and Mandarin, using key terms including “EV-A71”, “enterovirus 71”, “hand, foot, and mouth disease”, “HFMD”, “vaccine”, “efficacy”, “effectiveness”, “protection” and “impact”. Phase III randomized controlled trials (RCTs) reporting vaccine efficacy and observational studies on effectiveness were eligible for inclusion. We excluded studies that evaluated non-laboratory confirmed HFMD associated outcomes, abstracts, reviews, comments, animal studies, cross-sectional studies, and modelling studies. Summary measures of vaccine efficacy and effectiveness were based on random-effects models. After screening, 14 articles were eligible for inclusion, including 6 reporting 4 different phase III RCTs. Estimated efficacy of 2 doses of EV-A71 vaccine against EV-A71 associated HFMD 1 year after vaccination ranged from 90.0% to 97.9%, with an overall estimate for all products of 95.6% (95% Confidence Interval: 92.1, 97.5). Efficacy remained high at 26 months post-vaccination, ranging from 94.7% to 94.8%. The estimated overall effectiveness of 2-dose vaccination against any EV-A71-HFMD across five test-negative case-control studies was 84.3% (95% CI: 75.2, 90.0) among children aged 0–12 years. Effectiveness was higher in older children compared to younger children (85.3% (72.9, 92.1) vs. 79.8% (61.2, 89.5)) and higher against severe compared with non-severe EV-A71-HFMD (90.0% (80.0, 95.0) vs. 76.5% (50.0, 89.0)). The effectiveness declined in more recent studies with longer follow-up. Inactivated EV-A71 vaccines offer a high level of protection against EV-A71 HFMD. Longer term studies are needed to evaluate the persistence of protection beyond 2 years post-vaccination.