Recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2020 southern hemisphere influenza season

Overview

27 September 2019

It is recommended that quadrivalent vaccines for use in the 2020 southern hemisphere influenza season contain the following:

• an A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus;
• an A/South Australia/34/2019 (H3N2)-like virus;
• a B/Washington/02/2019-like (B/Victoria lineage) virus; and
• a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like (B/Yamagata lineage) virus.

It is recommended that trivalent influenza vaccines for use in the 2020 southern hemisphere influenza season contain the following:

• an A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus;
• an A/South Australia/34/2019 (H3N2)-like virus; and
• a B/Washington/02/2019-like (B/Victoria lineage) virus.