Vaccines
Researchers from Iceland, Sweden and Netherlands detail new studies and findings in the area of vaccines
Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 3rd, 2006
Study 1: According to a study from Iceland, early-life T cell responses to pneumococcal conjugates increase with age and determine the polysaccharide-specific antibody response and protective efficacy.
"Immunization with a tetanus-protein (TT) pneumococcal polysaccharide (PPS) conjugate vaccine (Pnc1-TT) induces protective immunity against lethal pneumococcal infections in neonatal and infant mice, but anti-PPS IgG response and protective efficacy is lower than in adult mice. [In our report] we show that reduced antibody (Ab) response and protection against...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2006-05-03)
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