Sentences with phrase «of seasonal influenza vaccine»

«The study by Egli et al. holds promise for enhancing the response of the seasonal influenza vaccine by blocking the receptor used for the innate immunity signalling molecule IL28B.

Despite the limitations of the seasonal influenza vaccine, people should still get their annual flu shot, say the authors.

Not exact matches

Apart from the nippy weather, many of us start to notice change is in the air when the local chemist has started advertising flu vaccines to prevent seasonal influenza and more throats become scratchy and noses sniffly on our morning commute.

Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines, 2017 - 18.

Gilmore again urged residents to take steps to prevent the spread of H1N1 and seasonal influenza, including getting the vaccine when it becomes available to them.

Although the world's attention is focused on the novel H1N1 virus causing the swine flu pandemic, H3N2, a seasonal strain of influenza, has popped up in many East Asian countries — and some variants in circulation may outfox the seasonal vaccine in use.

Currently, seasonal flu vaccines are designed to induce high levels of protective antibodies against hemagglutinin (HA), a protein found on the surface of the influenza virus that enables the virus to enter a human cell and initiate infection.

The H3N2 strain is one of three in the seasonal influenza vaccines.

What drives vaccine fears, he notes, is the knowledge that vaccines don't work for everyone and that they can, on rare occasions, cause serious side effects, such as Guillain — Barré syndrome, which develops in one out of every million people who receive the seasonal influenza vaccine.

The data obtained from this study provide a basis for more rapid, cost - effective clinical trials to evaluate new influenza drugs or to determine the efficacy of candidate vaccines for both seasonal and pandemic influenza.

While this year's vaccine is a much better match to the circulating seasonal strains of influenza, the shifty nature of the virus and the need to pick the viruses used to make global vaccine stocks well before the onset of the flu season can make vaccine strain selection a shot in the dark.

Each year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, decides which strains of influenza virus to include in the seasonal flu vaccine.

Sinovac Biotech Ltd. is biopharmaceutical company that focuses on research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of vaccines that protect against human infectious diseases including hepatitis A and B, seasonal influenza, H5N1 pandemic influenza and mumps, as well as animal rabies vaccine.

«Confirmation of the protective benefits of the 2012 — 13 influenza vaccine among persons aged 6 months — 64 years offers further support for the public health benefit of annual seasonal influenza vaccination and supports the expansion of vaccination, particularly among younger age groups.