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Influenza Vaccines

"Influenza Vaccines" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Vaccines used to prevent infection by viruses in the family ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE. It includes both killed or attenuated vaccines. The composition of the vaccines is changed each year in response to antigenic shifts and changes in prevalence of influenza virus strains. The vaccine is usually bivalent or trivalent, containing one or two INFLUENZAVIRUS A strains and one INFLUENZAVIRUS B strain.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Influenza Vaccines" by people in this website by year, and whether "Influenza Vaccines" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 50 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2014
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