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 Salmonella vaccine elicit immunity against foreign antigen in neonates

Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 13th, 2004

Mucosally delivered Salmonella live vector vaccines elicit potent immune responses against a foreign antigen in neonatal mice born to naive and immune mothers.

"The development of effective vaccines for neonates and very young infants has been impaired by their weak, short-lived, and Th-2 biased responses and by maternal antibodies that interfere with vaccine take. We investigated the ability of Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Typhimurium to mucosally deliver tetanus toxin fragment C (Frag C) as a model antigen in neonatal mice. We hypothesize that Salmonella, by stimulating innate immunity (contributing to adjuvant effects) and inducing Th-1...

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