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

ab Miller 1977.

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
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