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SUBMITTER: Cowling BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3404712 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cowling Benjamin J BJ Fang Vicky J VJ Nishiura Hiroshi H Chan Kwok-Hung KH Ng Sophia S Ip Dennis K M DK Chiu Susan S SS Leung Gabriel M GM Peiris J S Malik JS
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20120315 12
We randomized 115 children to trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) or placebo. Over the following 9 months, TIV recipients had an increased risk of virologically-confirmed non-influenza infections (relative risk: 4.40; 95% confidence interval: 1.31-14.8). Being protected against influenza, TIV recipients may lack temporary non-specific immunity that protected against other respiratory viruses. ...[more]