Article
Genotypic stability of cold-adapted influenza virus vaccine in an efficacy clinical trial.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2000
Cha T A, Kao K, Zhao J, Fast P E, Mendelman P M, Arvin A
Abstract excerpt
An investigational live influenza virus vaccine, FluMist, contains three cold-adapted H1N1, H3N2, and B influenza viruses. The vaccine viruses are 6/2 reassortants, in which the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) genes are derived from the circulating wild-type viruses and the remaining six genes are derived from the cold-adapted master donor strains. The six genes from the cold-adapted master donor...
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