Influenza vaccine effectiveness against medically attended influenza illness in Beijing, China, 2014/15 season

• Main Authors: Chunna Ma (Author), Yang Pan (Author), Li Zhang (Author), Yi Zhang (Author), Shuangsheng Wu (Author), Ying Sun (Author), Wei Duan (Author), Man Zhang (Author), Quanyi Wang (Author), Peng Yang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Influenza vaccination is the most effective way of preventing influenza infections but its coverage is extremely low in China. Poor influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) was reported in the 2014/15 season in some Northern Hemisphere countries with a predominance of H3N2 viruses belonging to the 3C.2a...