Skip to main content
. 2018 Feb 1;2018(2):CD001269. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001269.pub6

ab Lauteria 1974.

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
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