Establishment of a cohort for deep phenotyping of the immune response to influenza vaccination among elderly individuals recruited from the general population

Establishment of a cohort for deep phenotyping of the immune response to influenza vaccination among elderly individuals recruited from the general population

Elderly individuals have the highest burden of disease from influenza infection but also the lowest immune response to influenza vaccination. A better understanding of the host response to influenza vaccination in the elderly is therefore urgently needed. We conducted a biphasic prospective, populat...

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Main Authors: Manas K. Akmatov, Peggy Riese, Marcus May, Leonhard Jentsch, Malik W. Ahmed, Damaris Werner, Anja Rösel, Megan Tyler, Kevin Pessler, Jana Prokein, Inga Bernemann, Norman Klopp, Blair Prochnow, Stephanie Trittel, Aravind Tallam, Thomas Illig, Christoph Schindler, Carlos A. Guzmán, Frank Pessler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-07-01
Series:Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
Subjects:
elderly
feasibility
influenza vaccination
nonresponse bias
pilot study
population-based study
response rate
vaccinomics
germany
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2017.1299300

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2017.1299300

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