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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Belshe, Robert B
• Mendelman, Paul M
• Treanor, John
• King, James
• Gruber, William C
• Piedra, Pedro
• Bernstein, David I
• Hayden, Frederick G
• Kotloff, Karen
• Zangwill, Ken
• Iacuzio, Dominick
• Wolff, Mark

Titel

The Efficacy of Live Attenuated, Cold-Adapted, Trivalent, Intranasal Influenzavirus Vaccine in Children

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 1998-05, Vol.338 (20), p.1405-1412

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Influenza A and B viruses are among the most common causes of respiratory tract illnesses that bring children to medical care, and influenza is a major cause of lower respiratory tract illness in young children. 1 The annual incidence of influenza infection in children may exceed 30 percent, 2 and children are believed to be important in the spread of influenza in the community. 3 Despite the availability of inactivated influenzavirus vaccine for children, the vaccine is used infrequently in this age group. 4 Live attenuated, cold-adapted, trivalent influenzavirus vaccine that is given intranasally may represent a convenient and effective approach to the prevention . . .