Early season co-circulation of influenza A(H3N2) and B(Yamagata): interim estimates of 2017/18 vaccine effectiveness, Canada, January 2018

Using a test-negative design, we assessed interim vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the 2017/18 epidemic of co-circulating influenza A(H3N2) and B(Yamagata) viruses. Adjusted VE for influenza A(H3N2), driven by a predominant subgroup of clade 3C.2a viruses with T131K + R142K + R261Q substitutions, was...

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Published in:Euro Surveill
Main Authors: Skowronski, Danuta M, Chambers, Catharine, De Serres, Gaston, Dickinson, James A, Winter, Anne-Luise, Hickman, Rebecca, Chan, Tracy, Jassem, Agatha N, Drews, Steven J, Charest, Hugues, Gubbay, Jonathan B, Bastien, Nathalie, Li, Yan, Krajden, Mel
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018
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Rapid Communication
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5801641/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29409570
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.5.18-00035
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