As discussed above, a phase 2 clinical trial assessing the immune activity and safety of the
quadrivalent HPV vaccine in 16-to-23-year-old HIV-positive women at 14 US sites found that only 12% had HPV-16 and only 5% had HPV-18--the cancer-causing HPV types covered by the vaccine--when they entered the study.7 Four weeks after women got the third vaccine dose, immunogenicity was high when measured as geometric mean titers of antibodies to the four HPV types or seroconversion rates for HPV-6, 11, 16, and 18.
Some seasonal flu vaccines will be formulated to protect against four flu If viruses (
quadrivalent flu vaccines) and will be available as well according to manufacturers.
Called
quadrivalent vaccines, these brands may prove more popular for children than their parents.
Albany, NY, February 24, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Seasonal Influenza Vaccines Market in Top Seven Countries to 2018 Next Generation
Quadrivalent Vaccines to Dominate the Market by Offering Broader Protection via Single Dose.
The
quadrivalent vaccine (Gardasil/Silgard[R], Merck & Co., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA) and bivalent vaccine (Cervarix[R], GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium) have each been licensed in over 100 countries worldwide.
An estimated 140,000 girls in these districts will be vaccinated with Gardasil, the
quadrivalent vaccine effective against both HPV and genital warts.
But doctors have suggested that young girls should instead use Gardasil, a
quadrivalent vaccine which prevents both conditions.
Hadjipanayis said there were two forms of the vaccine available, bivalent and
quadrivalent. The bivalent form protects against cervical cancer, he said, while the
quadrivalent form protects against both cervical cancer and genital warts.
Secondary prevention (reversal of HPV effect in CIN lesions, leading to regression) has not been demonstrated with the
quadrivalent HPV vaccine (Gardasil).
The
quadrivalent vaccine can be obtained through GP surgeries and specialist travel health centres.
TRAVELLERS to the annual Hajj Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca are being urged by Britain's chief medical officer to get their
quadrivalent meningitis jabs before they go.
One investigational
quadrivalent vaccine includes types 6, 11, 16, and 18.