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10/21/2013
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Brasília - The National Agency for Sanitary Surveillance ( ANVISA ) published in today's edition ( 21 ) of the Official Gazette resolution that sets the rules for the composition of influenza vaccines for use in the country in 2014 . The text establishes specifications for trivalent influenza vaccines , which must obligatorily contain three types of virus strains in combination , and for quadrivalents .
According to the resolution , shall contain the trivalent virus samples similar to those found in the U.S. states of California and Texas , both classified as Influenza A, and Massachusetts ( Influenza B ) . Vaccines quadrivalents should be composed by the samples of the virus beyond the trivalent influenza B virus strain found in Brisbane ( Australia ) .
ANVISA emphasizes that these vaccines may only be produced , marketed or used if they are within the determinations and the compositions described in the resolution and emphasizes that it is " forbidden to use any other strains of influenza virus vaccines in Brazil , and the currently marketed or manufactured outside of these determinations shall be withdrawn from the market . "
Source : Jornal do Brazil - online
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