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

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Methods Controlled trial, single‐blind
Participants 21 pairs of students and employers at the University of California, aged between 24 and 50 years who lived together or worked in close proximity
Interventions Recombinant, live attenuated R 75 vaccine (B/Hong Kong/5/72 and B/Russia/69) containing 107.5 EID/dose versus placebo (allantoic fluid). Lyophilised vaccine was supplied by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories and diluted with 2.5 mL of a 5% sucrose solution just before administration. Both preparations were administered intranasally (5 drops/nostril). In each pair 1 individual received vaccine and the other placebo. A second dose was administered 14 days apart.
Outcomes Any clinical symptoms within 7 days after each immunisation (rhinitis, cough, pharyngitis, headache, malaise, and myalgia were the prominently observed symptoms, but given as aggregates).
Notes Reported safety data do not allow quantitative analysis.
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