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GUIDANCE DOCUMENT

Clinical Data Needed to Support the Licensure of Seasonal Inactivated Influenza Vaccines Guidance for Industry May 2007

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Final
Docket Number:
FDA-2006-D-0222
Issued by:
Guidance Issuing Office
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

This document is intended to provide to you, sponsors of seasonal inactivated influenza vaccines, guidance on clinical development approaches to support a Biologics License Application (BLA). The approaches in this guidance apply to both nonadjuvanted and adjuvanted hemagglutinin-based seasonal vaccines, including "split virus," subunit, and whole virus inactivated vaccines propagated in embryonated chicken eggs or cell-culture, and to recombinant hemagglutinin-based protein vaccines, and DNA vaccines that express hemagglutinin. This document does not address live attenuated influenza vaccines or influenza vaccines that do not rely on immunity to a hemagglutinin component.

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