The composition of the influenza vaccine for the 2013-2014 influenza
season in the United States should be slightly different from that for
the 2012-2013 season, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products
Advisory Committee to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
recommended.
After a meeting held February 27,
the committee recommended that trivalent vaccines for the 2013-2014
season retain current vaccine strain A/California/7/2009pdm09-like (2009
H1N1) virus.
The committee also recommended replacing current vaccine strain
A/Victoria/361/2011 (H3N2)-like virus with an A(H3N2) virus
antigenically similar to the cell-propagated prototype virus
A/Victoria/361/2011 (A/Texas/50/2012) and replacing current vaccine
strain B/Wisconsin/1/2010-like virus with a B/Massachusetts/2/2012-like
(B/Yamagata lineage) virus.
The committee also recommended that quadrivalent vaccines, which are
expected to be available for the upcoming season, contain a
B/Brisbane/60/2008-like (B/Victoria lineage) virus in addition to the
viruses recommended for the trivalent vaccines.
These recommendations are based on "global influenza virus
surveillance data related to epidemiology and antigenic characteristics,
serological responses to 2012-2013 seasonal vaccines, and the
availability of candidate strains and reagents," the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) notes on its Web site.
The recommendations of the FDA committee match those made by the World Health Organization for the northern hemisphere influenza vaccines.
Continued: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/780427
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