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Evaluation of a cold-adapted influenza B/Texas/84 reassortant virus (CRB-87) vaccine in young children.

Department of Internal Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine, Missouri 63104.

ABSTRACT

A cold-adapted (ca) influenza B reassortant virus vaccine that contained the six internal RNA segments from influenza B/Ann Arbor/1/66 ca virus and the neuraminidase and hemagglutinin genes from wild-type influenza B/Texas/1/84 virus was evaluated in children ranging in age from 8 months to 14 years. The children were vaccinated intranasally with doses ranging from 10(3.2) to 10(6.2) 50% tissue culture infective doses (TCID50). Thirty children were seropositive, and 26 were seronegative. Thirty-three children participated as unvaccinated controls. The vaccine was well tolerated by both seronegative and seropositive children. The amount of virus required to infect 50% of seronegative children was approximately 10(4.5) TCID50. Vaccine viruses recovered from airway secretions retained temperature-sensitive and cold-adapted characteristics. The results of this study indicate that the vaccine virus, influenza B/Texas/84 ca reassortant virus, is attenuated, immunogenic, and phenotypically stable when given to young seronegative children.

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