2019 flu vax makeup

THE Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee has issued its recommendations for viruses to be included in influenza vaccines in the 2019 southern hemisphere influenza season.

For egg-based quadrivalent influenza vaccines the constituents include an A/Michigan/45/2015 (1N1) pdm0-9-like virus; an A/ Switzerland/8060/2017 (H3N2)-like virus; a B/Colorado/06/2017-like virus (B/Victoria/2/87 lineage); and a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus (B/Yamagata/16/188 lineage).

Egg-based trivalent vaccines will have the A/Michigan, A/Switzerland and B/Phuket-like viruses, and non egg-based vaccines will have an A/ Singapore/INFMH-16-0019/2016 (H3N2)-like virus along with the other components indicated for egg based vaccines.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has accepted the committee’s recommendations.