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Methods | Randomised controlled trial | |
Participants | 43 seronegative healthy adults aged between 22 and 50 years | |
Interventions | Live attenuated serum inhibitor resistant flu B vaccine R75 (a recombinant of B/Hong Kong/5/72 with B/Russia/69) containing 107.2 EID50 of R75/0.5 mL dose versus placebo (sucrose 5%). Intranasal, 2 doses, 2 weeks apart | |
Outcomes | Participants were interviewed during the 5 days following each immunisation. Local reaction (defined as immediate complains and comprising bad taste or burning, lasting for a few moments). Systemic reaction (consisting essentially of headache and rhinorrhoea) | |
Notes | Safety data only were extracted. Government 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 |