Universal influenza vaccines
The need to re-formulate the influenza virus vaccine in response to viral antigenic drift and shift makes for complex logistics of vaccine production and administration. Surveillance programs must be conducted…
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Antibiotics blunt the antibody response to influenza vaccine
…to inactivated influenza virus vaccine. This observation suggested that intestinal bacteria might influence antibody responses to vaccines. To determine if antibiotic-mediated depletion of intestinal bacteria influences responses to vaccination in…
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…influenza vaccine How good is the influenza vaccine? David and Goliath: How one cytokine may take down influenza Gut microbes influence defense against influenza H1N1 pandemic is over Secondary changes…
No tetravalent influenza vaccine
Two different influenza vaccines will be available in the fall of 2009. One will be a trivalent preparation comprising seasonal influenza H3N2 and H1N1 strains, plus an influenza B virus…
Influenza vaccine is safe for those with egg allergies
…vaccine. Because most influenza vaccines are grown in embryonated chicken eggs, and may contain residual egg protein, their use in individuals with egg allergy has been discouraged. However this practice…
Headless HA: Universal influenza vaccine?
…through several influenza epidemics.” Not an influenza vaccine for life, but perhaps more enduring than those available today. Steel, J. (2010). An Influenza Virus Vaccine Based on the Conserved Hemagglutinin…