Clinical Trials with Alice Strain, Live, Attenuated, Serum Inhibitor-Resistant Intranasal Influenza A Vaccine
- 1 October 1975
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 132 (4) , 415-420
- https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/132.4.415
Abstract
Two clinical trials with Alice strain intranasal influenza vaccine were performed. In study no. I (utilizing random selection and double-blind control), 50 subjects received a bivalent inactivated influenza vaccine intramuscularly, 99 subjects received Alice strain vaccine intranasally, and 50 subjects received a placebo intranasally. No symptomatology could be attributed to the intranasal route of immunization. Convalescent-phase geometric mean titers of hemagglutination inhibition antibody were higher after intramuscular vaccination; seroconversion occurred in 16 of 17 recipients of the Alice strain, with initial titers of < I:8. Clinical and virologic surveillance for 20 weeks after vaccination revealed no influenza A illnesses in participants of the study. In study no. 2,75% of the subjects with initial nasal antibody titers of < 1:3 developed measurable nasal antibody after receiving Alice strain vaccine.Keywords
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