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. 2018 Feb 1;2018(2):CD001269. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001269.pub6

ab Hrabar 1977.

Methods Randomised controlled trial, double‐blind, carried out during the season 1976 to 1977
Participants 167 students at the technical school in Zagreb, former Republic of Yugoslavia, without sensitivity to egg proteins, pregnancy, acute or chronic diseases
Interventions Cold‐adapted recombinant A/Victoria/3/75 vaccine administered in 3 different antigen concentrations (107.5, 106.5, 105.5 EID50/0.5 mL) versus placebo. One 0.5 mL dose intranasally.
Outcomes Participants were medically examined on each of the successive 5 days after immunisation (lasting for at least 1 day). Throat infection, granular palate, oedematous uvula, fever (no cases) as cases and subject‐days. For the following outcomes, authors give the total number of observed cases, without indication of the corresponding arm: malaise, swollen tonsils, fever (1), rhinorrhoea (1), conjunctivitis (7), laryngitis or hoarseness (3), cough (1), swollen tonsils (1), malaise (1). Surveillance was active.
Notes Safety data only were extracted.
Government funded
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Unclear
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Unclear
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Unclear
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Unclear
Summary assessment Unclear risk Unclear