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Methods | Controlled trial. Randomisation procedure was neither described nor mentioned. Participants were paired according to age and sex, 1 participant in each pair received vaccine, the other placebo. Double‐blind | |
Participants | 37 volunteers aged 18 to 24 years, with titre of serum neutralising antibodies to A/Hong Kong/8/68 > 1:16 | |
Interventions | Live attenuated A/England/8/68 grown in presence of heated equine serum. Two 0.5 mL doses containing 104 TCID50 of this strain or placebo (0.85% sodium chloride) were administered intranasally 2 to 3 weeks apart | |
Outcomes | Participants observed for 4 days, beginning 24 hours after immunisation. Fever, myalgia, rhinitis, cough, pharyngitis | |
Notes | Safety data only were extracted. Government and industry funded |
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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 |