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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2015 Dec 5;34(4):540–546. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.11.058

Table 1.

A. Numbers of volunteers, according to age, year of entering the study, and vaccinations
within the study. The table also shows the compliance of participants during the study. For
example, the cohort of young adults started with 55 young individuals in year 1 (1996), of whom
30 also participated in the second year, 22 in the third year, and 18 in the final year (diagonal).
Age group Number of
vaccinations (Nv)		 Number of vaccination events
1996 1997 1998 1999 All
Young adults 1 55 25 32 24 136
2 30 14 15 59
3 22 8 30
4 18 18
All 55 55 68 65 243
Elderly adults 1 33 42 32 15 122
2 27 38 25 90
3 24 32 56
4 21 21
All 33 69 94 93 289
B. Vaccine strain for each year and subtype for both age groups. Vaccine
and titration strains were taxonomically identical, except for the A-H1N1 subtype in
1997 (vaccine: A/Beijing/262/95, titration: A/Johannesburg/33/94).
Year A-H3N2 A-H1N1 B
1996 Nanchang/933/95 Texas/36/91 Harbin/7/94
1997 Nanchang/933/95 Beijing/262/95 Harbin/7/94
1998 Sydney/5/97 Beijing/262/95 Harbin/7/94
1999 Sydney/5/97 Beijing/262/95 Yamanashi/166/98