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SUBMITTER: Flannery B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6522684 | biostudies-other | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20190501 11
<h4>Background</h4>In recent influenza seasons, the effectiveness of inactivated influenza vaccines against circulating A(H3N2) virus has been lower than against A(H1N1)pdm09 and B viruses, even when circulating viruses remained antigenically similar to vaccine components.<h4>Methods</h4>During the 2016-2017 influenza season, vaccine effectiveness (VE) across age groups and vaccine types was examined among outpatients with acute respiratory illness at 5 US sites using a test-negative design that ...[more]