Virus strain used in assay

   

A/NC/99 (H1N1)

A/WI/05 (H3N2)

BM/04

   

Response

Response

Response

Testa Vaccine pre post rateb pre post rate pre post rate
HI LAIV 54 80 6 57 77 13 11 12 0
  TIV 135 160 19 104 258 31 24 38 19
MI LAIV 11 14 31c 11 13 38c ND ND ND
  TIV 10 13 38c 14 19 44c ND ND ND
Neutralizing LAIV 197 234 56 133 150 50 128 161 38
  TIV 263 363 75 101 223 94 182 382 81
aSerologic tests are described in Methods and Materials: the HI assay follows a standard protocol; the NI assay followed a miniaturized thiobarbituric acid method to quantify sialic acid; the neutralization assay followed a novel “AVINA” protocol in which NA activity is used as an end-point.
bResponse rate is the percent of individuals in each group that had a statistically significant increase in titer: for HI assays this is a 4-fold increase; for NI this is a 2-fold increase; for neutralizing antibodies this is a statistically significant increase in the IC50 determined by non-linear regression.
cPreviously reported [20].
Table 2: Serologic responses following LAIV and TIV. Geometric mean titers of HI, NI and neutralizing (AVINA) antibodies are shown for all individuals in each vaccine group (n=16) before and after vaccination (pre and post), and percent of individuals with a significant increase in titer (response rate) following immunization with LAIV and TIV.