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Reassortant LAIV in Russia<br />

> 30 years on the Market;<br />

> 100 million doses produced;<br />

Effectiveness <strong>of</strong> LAIV for adults (summary from 126 trials : 500 to 45,000<br />

adults per trial; total > 500,000 adults):<br />

• Effectiveness was confirmed for each trial.<br />

• Mean effectiveness for 126 trials was 1.80 (= 45%).<br />

• Index <strong>of</strong> effectiveness was 1.5 (= 33%), even when epidemics were<br />

caused by new antigenic variants not presented in LAIV.<br />

Nevertheless, new approaches to improve LAIV <strong>immunogenic</strong>ity <strong>and</strong><br />

effectiveness are <strong>of</strong> great interest<br />

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