Drugs in Context, 2015 n 2012, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommended that the National Immunisation Programme for influenza be extended to include healthy children/adolescents aged 2–17 years.
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Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine - A review [PDF]
Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene, 2011 Owing to the variability of influenza viruses, vaccine composition needs to be up-dated annually. As many variables can influence their efficacy, vaccines are still considered ?sub-optimal?. Many studies have been carried out in recent years to improve vaccines.
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Acceptability of intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccine, influenza knowledge and vaccine intent in The Gambia [PDF]
Vaccine, 2018 The burden of influenza is increasingly recognised in Africa. The WHO recommends introducing influenza vaccination to high-risk groups: pregnant women, children
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Influenza vaccination for immunocompromised patients : systematic review and meta-analysis from a public health policy perspective [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Immunocompromised patients are vulnerable to severe or complicated influenza infection. Vaccination is widely recommended for this group. This systematic review and meta-analysis assesses influenza vaccination for immunocompromised patients ...
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Impact of Pre-Existing Immunity to Influenza on Live-Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) Immunogenicity. [PDF]
Vaccines (Basel), 2020 During the previous influenza seasons, between 2010 and 2016, the live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) provided variable efficacy against influenza in the U.S., causing the recommendation against the use of the LAIV.
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Live attenuated intranasal influenza vaccine [PDF]
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2012 Annual vaccination is the most effective means of preventing and controlling influenza epidemics, and the traditional trivalent inactivated vaccine (TIV) is by far the most widely used. Unfortunately, it has a number of limitations, the most important of which is its poor immunogenicity in younger children and the elderly, the populations at greatest ...
Esposito, Susanna Maria Roberta +5 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Cold adapted live attenuated influenza vaccines can effectively prevent human disease and death caused by influenza virus. Since chicken embryos are used as the culture substrate for the large-scale production of influenza vaccines, cold adapted live ...
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Assessment of human immune responses to H7 avian influenza virus of pandemic potential: results from a placebo-controlled, randomized double-blind phase I study of live attenuated H7N3 influenza vaccine. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Live attenuated influenza vaccines (LAIVs) are being developed to protect humans against future epidemics and pandemics. This study describes the results of a double-blinded randomized placebo-controlled phase I clinical trial of cold-adapted and ...
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Health-related behaviors and effectiveness of trivalent inactivated versus live attenuated influenza vaccine in preventing influenza-like illness among young adults. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND: Vaccination is the preferred preventive strategy against influenza. Though health behaviors are known to affect immunity and vaccine delivery modes utilize different immune processes, data regarding the preferred influenza vaccine type among ...
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Effectiveness of influenza vaccine in aging and older adults: comprehensive analysis of the evidence [PDF]
, 2012 Foremost amongst the diseases preventable by vaccination is influenza. Worldwide, influenza virus infection is associated with serious adverse events leading to hospitalization, debilitating complications, and death in elderly individuals ...
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