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Editor, Senior Moderator
Vaccine. 2010 Nov 2. [Epub ahead of print]
Evaluation of the cellular immune responses induced by a non-adjuvanted inactivated whole virus A/H5N1/VN/1203 pandemic influenza vaccine in humans.
Crowe BA, Br?hl P, Gerencer M, Schwendinger MG, Pilz A, Kistner O, Koelling-Schlebusch K, Aichinger G, Singer J, Zeitlinger M, M?ller M, Ehrlich H, Barrett PN.
Baxter Bioscience, Biomedical Research Centre, Uferstr. 15, A-2304 Orth an der Donau, Austria.
Abstract
In the present study the homologous and heterologous type and subtype specific cellular immune response induced by a wild type inactivated whole virus H5N1 Influenza (A/Vietnam/1203/2004) vaccine was evaluated. Two immunizations with the Vero cell derived H5N1 influenza vaccine on Day 0 and Day 21 induced significant H5N1 vaccine specific and H5 haemagglutinin specific clade and cross-clade reactive CD4(+) T cell responses, which were maintained at significant levels for at least 6 months. The H5N1 vaccine specific response cross-reacted with the H1N1, but not with H3N2 or B seasonal Influenza strains. The vaccine significantly increased the number of H5N1 specific and H5 haemagglutinin specific memory B cells, 6 months after the primary immunization, however no H1N1 specific cross-reactivity was observed. Importantly, the inactivated whole virus H5N1 vaccine was just as effective in inducing CD4(+) T cell and memory B cell response in the elderly (60 years or over) as in the adult population (18-59 years).
Copyright ? 2010. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PMID: 21055500 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21055500
Evaluation of the cellular immune responses induced by a non-adjuvanted inactivated whole virus A/H5N1/VN/1203 pandemic influenza vaccine in humans.
Crowe BA, Br?hl P, Gerencer M, Schwendinger MG, Pilz A, Kistner O, Koelling-Schlebusch K, Aichinger G, Singer J, Zeitlinger M, M?ller M, Ehrlich H, Barrett PN.
Baxter Bioscience, Biomedical Research Centre, Uferstr. 15, A-2304 Orth an der Donau, Austria.
Abstract
In the present study the homologous and heterologous type and subtype specific cellular immune response induced by a wild type inactivated whole virus H5N1 Influenza (A/Vietnam/1203/2004) vaccine was evaluated. Two immunizations with the Vero cell derived H5N1 influenza vaccine on Day 0 and Day 21 induced significant H5N1 vaccine specific and H5 haemagglutinin specific clade and cross-clade reactive CD4(+) T cell responses, which were maintained at significant levels for at least 6 months. The H5N1 vaccine specific response cross-reacted with the H1N1, but not with H3N2 or B seasonal Influenza strains. The vaccine significantly increased the number of H5N1 specific and H5 haemagglutinin specific memory B cells, 6 months after the primary immunization, however no H1N1 specific cross-reactivity was observed. Importantly, the inactivated whole virus H5N1 vaccine was just as effective in inducing CD4(+) T cell and memory B cell response in the elderly (60 years or over) as in the adult population (18-59 years).
Copyright ? 2010. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PMID: 21055500 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21055500