The establishment of surrogates and correlates of protection: Useful tools for the licensure of effective influenza vaccines?

The search for a test that can predict vaccine efficacy is an important part of any vaccine development program. Although regulators hesitate to acknowledge any test as a true ‘correlate of protection’, there are many precedents for defining ‘surrogate’ assays. Surrogates can be powerful tools for v...

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Main Authors: Brian J. Ward, Stephane Pillet, Nathalie Charland, Sonia Trepanier, Julie Couillard, Nathalie Landry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-03-01
Series:Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2017.1413518