Active clinical trials for "Influenza, Human"

This is a non-interventional study to perform the clinical performance evaluation of the Starfish Test using prospectively collected matched nasopharyngeal and nasal swab samples from the same donor. In order to meet the minimum sample requirements, and to demonstrate performance on a range of viral strains, the prospective collection may be supplemented with banked remnant nasal and/or nasopharyngeal samples.

The purpose of this study is to test whether spraying the hand of patients by use of the novel electrolyzed water spray will decrease the number of bacteria E-coli and the virus titer of an attenuated human flu virus.

A multi-centre, randomized, placebo controlled, trial. Participants at high-risk for vascular events from the network of INTER- CHF will be randomized to inactivated influenza vaccine or placebo and followed prospectively over three influenza seasons. 600 participants will be enrolled prior to influenza season and randomized to either influenza vaccine or saline placebo.

This study has been designed to determine if subjects treated with oseltamivir in addition to standard of care treatment for influenza demonstrate a greater improvement in attention / working memory / processing speed / mood as compared to subjects receiving standard of care alone. The cognitive tests employed are objective measures developed and administered online by HeadMinder Inc.

The primary objective of this study was to determine the proportion of subjects, seronegative to all three strains of influenza, as defined by a serum hemagglutination inhibition antibodies (HAI) antibody titer of <1:10, who shed each vaccine virus strain following a single dose of CAIV-T.

The purpose of this study is provide a better understanding of the adaptive immune response to the licensed flu vaccines. The investigators hope the information learned from this study will help identify and describe important factors of influenza immunity especially of or specific proteins associated with the T-cell immune response.

The investigators collected blood and lymphoid tissues routinely discarded during surgery from adults after a routine seasonal influenza vaccination to determine how immune memory develops at the actual site of infection, and how immunization may alter this process.

The goal of this study is to understand the impact on the human immune system's response to the four strain flu vaccine in individuals who have "imprinted" on specific influenza strains. It will also consider the effects of repeated prior annual influenza vaccination on the immune system.

The Live-Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV), also known as FluMist, has been shown to be effective in children but less effective in adults. Our hypothesis is that this relative failure is due to adults having enough anti-flu IgA antibody in nasal secretions to neutralize the weakened vaccine virus.

A multi-centre, randomized, placebo controlled, trial. Participants will be patients either ≥65 years or with one or more high risk conditions presenting to one of four academic emergency departments in Edmonton or Calgary with influenza-like illness. The investigators will test for influenza using a point-of-care rapid test and if positive for influenza participants will be randomized to oseltamivir or placebo and followed prospectively. The primary outcome will be hospitalization.