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. 2022 Mar 22;227(4):498–511. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac098

Table 5.

Effectiveness of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Against Hospitalized and Nonhospitalized Lower Respiratory Tract Infection or Pneumonia End Points

Respiratory Virus Detected
Nonhospitalized Case Patients Hospitalized Case Patients
PCV13 Receipt Matched, Adjusted VE (95% CI), %a
PCV13 Receipt Matched, Adjusted VE (95% CI), %a
Case Patients Controls Case Patients Controls
% No./Total No. % No./Total No. % No./Total No. % No./Total No.
Any virus detected 60.4 3757/6225 61.7 77 678/125 931 18.6 (9.3–27.0) 73.0 5567/7631 75.3 76 731/101 956 26.8 (19.9–33.1)
Any virus detected, by specific virus identified
 Influenza A 54.9 1046/1905 55.2 23 498/42 580 4.5 (−16.1 to 21.4) 71.6 1469/2051 74.6 20 593/27 598 25.6 (11.4–37.5)
 Influenza B 46.8 275/588 55.7 4992/8970 46.5 (24.3–62.2) 66.9 370/553 75.2 3373/4485 37.2 (11.8–55.3)
 RSV 73.1 411/562 76.4 7960/10 420 3.0 (−38.5–32.1) 78.3 705/900 79.3 10 464/13 202 4.4 (−26.0 to 27.5)
 HCoVs (229E, HKU1, OC43, NL63) 62.3 259/416 64.7 4632/7160 38.7 (2.6–61.4) 72.1 403/559 74.9 5051/6742 19.9 (−13.1 to 43.2)
 Parainfluenza viruses (1–4) 71.2 384/539 70.8 9479/13 393 18.9 (−19.9 to 45.2) 79.2 570/720 79.5 8917/11 223 16.0 (−15.9 to 39.2)
 Adenovirusesb 38.8 31/80 26.8 434/1622 56.5 52/92 56.8 661/1163 43.0 (−60.6 to 79.7)
 HMPV 65.1 392/602 65.5 6934/10 589 17.4 (−15.6 to 41.0) 72.0 618/858 72.1 8106/11 245 25.0 (1.0–43.2)
 Enteroviruses 62.6 959/1533 63.3 19 749/31 197 24.1 (4.9–39.4) 72.7 1380/1898 74.4 19 566/26 298 31.7 (18.1–43.0)
 Single virus detected
 Influenza A 54.5 977/1793 55.4 22 198/40 043 7.9 (−12.6 to 24.6) 71.1 1350/1900 73.8 18 973/25 711 27.4 (12.9–39.4)
 Influenza B 46.5 254/546 56.7 4630/8166 45.6 (22.5–61.80 66.1 320/484 72.3 2769/3832 36.4 (9.0–55.5)
 RSV 72.8 367/504 77.1 7006/9088 18.0 (−19.5 to 43.8) 78.2 609/779 78.7 8766/11 142 6.5 (−26.0 to 30.6)
 HCoVs (229E, HKU1, OC43, NL63) 65.0 204/314 70.4 3661/5202 40.8 (−2.7 to 65.9) 71.6 307/429 74.5 3816/5123 32.5 (−1.2 to 55.0)
 Parainfluenza viruses (1–4) 70.8 357/504 71.6 8900/12 428 30.4 (−3.2 to 53.1) 79.0 529/670 79.9 8363/10 465 19.8 (−12.2 to 42.6)
 Adenovirusesb 30.0 18/60 25.9 356/1372 58.8 40/68 54.9 426/776
 HMPV 65.6 370/564 65.2 6499/9973 5.4 (−34.1 to 33.3) 71.4 563/789 72.2 7626/10 563 31.7 (8.6–49.0)
 Enteroviruses 62.6 884/1412 63.0 17 911/28 421 25.9 (6.2–41.5) 72.1 1252/1737 74.1 18 009/24 311 35.6 (22.4–46.7)
No virus detected (negative for all)c 60.8 856/1409 62.0 15 558/25 104 29.5 (12.4–43.3) 71.4 1535/2151 74.1 19 845/26 781 30.7 (17.7, 41.7)

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HCoVs, human coronaviruses; HMPV, human metapneumovirusPCV13, 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine; RSV, RSV, respiratory syncytial virus; VE, vaccine effectiveness.

VE is calculated for an end point of any medically attended lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI)/pneumonia for which viral respiratory polymerase chain reaction panel testing was conducted and the indicated results (pathogen detections) were obtained. We present results aggregated across LRTI/pneumonia end points in Table 3, while Table 4 presents separate estimates for pneumonia and nonpneumonia LRTI end points. Estimates are obtained via the adjusted odds ratio of prior PCV13 receipt in case patients versus matched controls, for each end point designated according to diagnosis, hospitalization status, and respiratory virus detection, estimated via logistic regression with covariate adjustment for all measured confounders. Estimates without adjustment for confounders that were not included in match assignment are presented in Supplementary Table 22. (For LRTIs, diagnosis codes from the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification, are provided in Supplementary Table 1).

Insufficient sample size for model convergence.

We analyzed data from a randomly sampled subset of all virus-negative case patients.