Accession Number:

ADA010803

Title:

Influenza A Virus Aboard a U.S. Navy Ship in 1972 and the Antibody Response of the Crew to Influenza Vaccine.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH UNIT NO 2 TAIPEI (TAIWAN)

Personal Author(s):

• Green,I. J.
• Irving,G. S.
• Hung,S. C.
• Davenport,J. V.

Report Date:

1974-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

7.0

Abstract:

Following a shipboard influenza outbreak in 1972 in which influenza A viruses antigenically closely related to the AEngland4272 and AQueensland572 were isolated, the crew was vaccinated with a vaccine containing 700 CCA units of AAichi68X-31 virus, to assess its antigenic efficacy in stimulating antibodies against several strains of the virus prevalent from 1957-1972. It was postulated from this study that vaccines containing influenza A strains of the 1968 vintage will not prove to have been very effective against the 1972 influenza A strains, and that it is highly likely that such a vaccine will be less effective against strains which will appear during the 1973-1974 influenza season.

Descriptors:

• *IMMUNOLOGY
• *INFLUENZA VIRUS
• *VACCINES
• NAVAL VESSELS
• NAVAL PERSONNEL
• MILITARY MEDICINE
• ANTIBODIES
• PATIENTS
• RESPONSE(BIOLOGY)
• INFECTIOUS DISEASES
• IMMUNIZATION
• SERODIAGNOSIS
• MYXOVIRUSES

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE