RSV in adults

Nikki Turner, Academic General Practitioner, provides an update on RSV in adults and discusses new RSV vaccinations.

Topics

Intro
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How common is RSV in adults in NZ?
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How does an adult present with an RSV infection?
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How is the diagnosis made?
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Management of RSV infection
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Prevention strategies
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Vaccinations for RSV in NZ
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Who should be offered a vaccination?
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International recommendations
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Contraindications to vaccination
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Pregnant women
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Take-home messages
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Take home messages

RSV is less often recognized as causing illness in elderly particularly frail elderly and those with significant comorbidities.
Good adult RSV vaccines are now on the international market and one is soon to be on the NZ private market.
There in no NZ plan as yet to introduce RSV vaccines on the national schedule, but other countries have already done so.

Presenter

Nikki Turner

Academic General Practitioner

MBCHB MPH DIB OBS DCH MD FRNZCGP FNZCPHM (Hon)

Professor Nikki Turner is an academic General Practitioner and the Medical Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Nikki’s interests are in immunisation, respiratory illness, primary and public health care. She resides in Wellington and works part-time as a General Practitioner. Nikki sits on a range of NZ national advisory groups for the government, Ministry of Health and Pharmac focused on clinical and policy advice around vaccine-preventable diseases, the immunisation programme and COVID-19.

Academically, Nikki is widely published with over 100 academic publications in the arenas of immunisation, vaccinology, and child health