RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 2008–2009 Influenza update: A better vaccine match
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 865
OP 870
DO 10.3949/ccjm.75a.08088
VO 75
IS 12
A1 Mossad, Sherif B.
YR 2008
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/12/865.abstract
AB Last year, the influenza vaccine did not match the circulating strains very well, and its overall protective efficacy was only 40%. All three antigens contained in the 2008-2009 vaccine are new. Surveillance data from the Southern Hemisphere during the summer of 2008 show that this vaccine is expected to match well the circulating strains in the Northern Hemisphere.