Immunologic Factor
influenza vaccine
in·flu·en·za vac·cine [ in-floo-en-zuh vak-seen, vak-seen, -sin ]
Subclass of:
Viral Vaccines
Definitions related to influenza virus vaccine:
  • (influenza, nos) Influenza virus vaccine, NOS
    NCI Health Level 7 Vocabulary
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
  • (influenza vaccine) Orthomyxovirus vaccine; the composition of the vaccine 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 influenza virus A strains and one influenza virus B strain.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (influenza vaccines) Vaccines used to prevent infection by viruses in the family ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE. It includes both killed and 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 flu vaccines may be mono- or multi-valent, which contains one or more INFLUENZAVIRUS A and INFLUENZAVIRUS B strains.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Based on recommendations by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), vaccines for influenza are modified annually to include the most prevalent strains (usually 2 strains of influenza A and 1 or 2 strains of influenza B). Sometimes slightly different vaccines are used in the northern and...
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
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