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Flu Vaccines
New flu vaccines findings from E.A. Belongia and co-researchers published
February 18th, 2009
"We estimated the effectiveness of inactivated influenza vaccines for the prevention of laboratory-confirmed, medically attended influenza during 3 seasons with variable antigenic match between vaccine and patient strains. Patients were enrolled during or after a clinical encounter for acute respiratory illness," researchers in the United States report. "Influenza infection was confirmed by culture or reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. control analyses were performed that used data from patients who were ill without influenza (hereafter, ''test-negative control subjects'') and data from asymptomatic control subjects from the population (hereafter,...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-02-18)
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