Email this article SEASONAL INFLUENZA VACCINE STRAIN RECOMMENDATIONS IN RECENT YEARS
- Authors: Vasiliev Y.M.1
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Affiliations:
- Research Institute of Ultrapure Biologicals of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency
- Issue: Vol 22, No 2-2 (2019)
- Pages: 1006-1008
- Section: ORIGINAL ARTICLES
- Submitted: 04.08.2020
- Accepted: 04.08.2020
- Published: 15.07.2019
- URL: https://rusimmun.ru/jour/article/view/447
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S102872210006490-4
- ID: 447
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Abstract
World Health Organization (WHO) experts issue strain recommendations to ensure effective yearly influenza vaccination. Several important “firsts” had taken place in recent years. An up to a 1-month recommendation delay puts the whole system of timely procurement of enough doses of effective and safe influenza vaccines based on up-to-date strains at risk.
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Y. M. Vasiliev
Research Institute of Ultrapure Biologicals of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency
Author for correspondence.
Email: y.m.vasiliev@hpb.spb.ru
PhD, Acting Director,
St. Petersburg
Russian FederationReferences
- WHO. Vaccines against influenza. WER. 2012, 47, 461–476.
- WHO. Recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2019 southern hemisphere influenza season. WER. 2018, 42, 553–562.
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