Influenza vaccine

Japanese: インフルエンザワクチン - いんふるえんざわくちん
Influenza vaccine

…The pathogenic virus is identified by isolating the virus from the patient's gargle water using the hatched chicken egg culture method, or by serologically determining the virus by complement fixation reaction or hemagglutination inhibition reaction using an appropriate viral antigen. [Kawaguchi Hiroaki]
[Influenza vaccine]
The influenza strains that circulate change almost every year, but vaccine production begins six months to a year before the outbreak, so even if you can predict the strains that will circulate, the results will of course be wrong. Even if you can predict them correctly, the effectiveness is only about 80%.

*Some of the terms that refer to "influenza vaccine" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…病原ウイルスの同定は,患者のうがい水から孵化(ふか)鶏卵培養法によって,ウイルスを分離するか,適当なウイルスの抗原を用い,血清学的に補体結合反応あるいは血球凝集抑制反応によって判断する。【川口 啓明】
[インフルエンザワクチン]
 インフルエンザの流行型は毎年のように変わるが,ワクチンの生産開始は,流行の半年から1年も前なので,流行株の予想は立てても,当然,当り外れがある。かりに予想が的中しても効果は80%程度である。…

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