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

ab Keitel 1993a.

Methods "The two trials (Keitel 1993a and Keitel 1993b) tested three live attenuated vaccines." This paper reports the results of 2 randomised controlled trials carried out in the USA
Participants Healthy volunteers recruited at Texas A&M University and Texas Medical Center, aged between 18 and 40 years
Interventions Two 0.5 mL doses of cold‐adapted recombinant influenza vaccines, 1 month apart, containing 107.1 TCID50 of each strain/dose. 2 studies were conducted in which 4 groups were formed (2 interventions, 2 placebos): 1) placebo 1st and 2nd dose. 2) 1st: A/Kawasaki/9/86 (H1N1, CR 125) + A/Bethesda/1/85 (H3N2, CR90) + B/Ann Arbor/1/86 (B, CRB117)
Outcomes Mild upper respiratory symptoms. Fever >= 37.8 °C within 1 week after each inoculation
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