[The possibility of long-term prognosis in influenza A pandemics].

On the basis of the analysis of the most significant influenza A pandemics over the period of 300 years, compared with periodic long-term changes in the climate and the cycles of solar activity, regularities in the manifestation of the biorhythms of the epidemic activity of influenza A virus have been established. The prognosis of pandemics for near and remote future is proposed.

[Effectiveness of live influenza vaccines obtained by strain recombination and passages].

A comparative study of the immunizing activity of strain variants derived from one epidemic influenza virus A/USSR/77 (H1N1) by using different attenuation methods was carried out. Serial passages in chick embryos preserved the biological activity of the virus better than genetic recombination which was manifested by a significant superiority of the passaged virus over the reassortant in the capacity of replicating in the upper respiratory tracts of the vaccinees, of inducing immune responses and creating the protection of the portals of entry of infection. The problem of optimal preservation of biological potentials of influenza virus in the process of attenuation is discussed.

[Results of a study of the effectiveness of simultaneous immunization against influenza with live and inactivated vaccines (1980-1983)].

A comparative evaluation of immunological and epidemiological effectiveness of commercial live and killed vaccine preparations used simultaneously or separately was first carried out in simultaneous field trials of various methods of influenza vaccine prevention in a human population of 10,449 subjects. The advantage of simultaneous immunization was confirmed by immunological parameters and protective effect in the period of influenza A epidemic of 1983. The correlation of immunological and epidemiological effectiveness of influenza vaccines in joint or separate administration is discussed.