Public health and economic impact of switching from a trivalent to a quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in Mexico

• Main Authors: Guillermo M. Ruiz-Palacios (Author), John H. Beigel (Author), Maria Lourdes Guerrero (Author), Lucile Bellier (Author), Ramiro Tamayo (Author), Patricia Cervantes (Author), Fabián P. Alvarez (Author), Arturo Galindo-Fraga (Author), Felipe Aguilar-Ituarte (Author), Juan Guillermo Lopez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Most influenza vaccines in Mexico are trivalent, containing two influenza A strains and a single B strain. Quadrivalent influenza vaccines (QIVs) extend protection by including an additional B strain to cover both co-circulating B lineages. Here, we retrospectively estimated how a switch to QIV in M...