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Surveillance and vaccine effectiveness of an influenza epidemic predominated by vaccine-mismatched influenza B/Yamagata-lineage viruses in Taiwan, 2011-12 season.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
IntroductionThe 2011-12 trivalent influenza vaccine contains a strain of influenza B/Victoria-lineage viruses. Despite free provision of influenza vaccine among target populations, an epidemic predominated by influenza B/Yamagata-lineage viruses occurred
Yi-Chun Lo   +12 more
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Clinical similarities between influenza A and B in children: a single-center study, 2017/18 season, Korea

open access: yesBMC Pediatrics, 2019
Background The global burden of seasonal influenza on medical care has been one of the greatest in the pediatric population. The attention drawn to influenza B was relatively low compared to influenza A, probably because the influenza B virus was thought
Yu Na Oh   +5 more
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Patterns of influenza B circulation in Brazil and its relevance to seasonal vaccine composition

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Data on the burden of disease and circulation patterns of influenza B lineages for Brazil are limited. This review aims to describe the pattern of influenza B occurrence in Brazil to have a better understanding of its epidemiology and its relevance when ...
Eliana Nogueira Castro de Barros   +4 more
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The epidemiological signature of influenza B virus and its B/Victoria and B/Yamagata lineages in the 21st century.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
We describe the epidemiological characteristics, pattern of circulation, and geographical distribution of influenza B viruses and its lineages using data from the Global Influenza B Study.
Saverio Caini   +54 more
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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of influenza A and B virus infection in adult Australian hospitalised patients

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background Influenza B is often perceived as a less severe strain of influenza. The epidemiology and clinical outcomes of influenza B have been less thoroughly investigated in hospitalised patients.
Yogesh Sharma   +3 more
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Cytokines in influenza in children (literature review)

open access: yesСибирский научный медицинский журнал
This literature review was compiled according to the data of search engines PubMed, eLIBRARY.RU, Google Scholar using key words influenza, cytokines, children. The article highlights the participation of pro-inflammatory and antiinflammatory cytokines in
E. D. Kazantseva   +3 more
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Epidemiology and ARIMA model of positive-rate of influenza viruses among children in Wuhan, China: A nine-year retrospective study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Objective: Influenza is a common childhood disease and protecting children by predicting the positive rate of influenza virus is important as vaccines are not routinely administered in China.
Zhirui He, Hongbing Tao
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Patterns of influenza B circulation in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010-2017.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
ObjectiveThere are limited published data about the circulation of influenza B/Victoria and B/Yamagata in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and most countries have a vaccine policy that includes the use of the trivalent influenza vaccine. We analyzed
Rakhee Palekar   +21 more
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Co-circulation of the two influenza B lineages during 13 consecutive influenza surveillance seasons in Italy, 2004–2017

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Since 1985, two antigenically distinct lineages of influenza B viruses (Victoria-like and Yamagata-like) have circulated globally. Trivalent seasonal influenza vaccines contain two circulating influenza A strains but a single B strain and thus
Simona Puzelli   +18 more
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Age-related distribution of influenza B and vaccine match in the 2024-2025 season: A multi-season comparative analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases
Objectives: The 2024-2025 season had the highest intensity of influenza-like illness in 13 seasons, and severe influenza B disease was reported by hospital physicians among children.
Michal Mandelboim   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

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