Abstract
Summary Nasal secretion and serum neutralizing antibody responses of 22 elderly persons to vaccination with a bivalent inactivated influenza virus vaccine by local or parenteral routes were compared. Each 1.0 ml of vaccine contained 300 chicken cell agglutination (CCA) units each of A2/Taiwan/1/64 and A2/Japan/170/62, and 600 CCA units of B/Mass/3/66 influenza virus antigens. The titers and duration of IgA antibody in nasal secretions were higher and appeared to persist longer following repeated nasopharyngeal vaccination than after a single subcutaneous immunization. The frequency and duration of serum antibody responses induced by local administration of vaccine were not significantly different from those seen following parenteral vaccination.
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