Background Because inactivated trivalent influenza vaccines (TIVs) contain 1 influenza B strain, whereas 2 lineages may co-circulate, B lineage mismatch is frequent. We assessed an inactivated ...

The aTIV vaccine provides better protection against influenza-related medical encounters than the HD-TIV vaccine in high-risk older adults.

In 1978, the first trivalent vaccine included two influenza A strains and one influenza B strain. Currently, there are two influenza B lineages circulating; in the latest WHO recommendations ...

this year’s flu shot is a trivalent vaccine that does not include an Influenza B/Yamagata component. It is supposed to target three flu strains: Influenza A virus H1N1 Influenza A virus H3N2 ...

Fluarix Quadrivalent is the first intramuscular vaccine to cover against four influenza strains. “Trivalent influenza vaccines have helped protect millions of people against flu, but in six of ...

Recently, the majority of the influenza vaccines are trivalent or quadrivalent, made of one H1N1, one H3N2, and either one or two type B viruses (Victoria lineage and Yamagata). Image Credit ...

Shots are pretty much the oldest health tech in the book, but vaccines remain an important tool to help people stay healthy ...

Most of those countries used trivalent vaccines, but Paraguay used the quadrivalent shot that also targeted the B/Yamagata lineage. When analyzed by influenza subtype, effectiveness against the ...

Did you get the flu last winter? If so, you were one of at least 34 million people in the United States who got sick during ...

Production of Novartis’s inactivated flu vaccine began in 2013, and today the company produces between 9 million and 12 million doses of trivalent influenza vaccine per year—enough to ...

To determine whether EI could be used to deliver commercial human vaccines, we immunized BALB/c mice with the trivalent influenza vaccine manufactured for vaccination during the 1998–1999 season.