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Immunization
New immunization research from Harvard University outlined
July 16th, 2008
According to recent research from the United States, "Many pathogens are sheltered from host immunity by surface polysaccharides that would be ideal as vaccines except that they are too similar to host antigens to be immunogenic. The production of functional IgG is a desirable response to vaccines; because IgG is the only isotype that crosses the placenta, it is of particular importance in maternal vaccines against neonatal disease due to group B Streptococcus (GBS)." "Clinical studies found a substantially lower proportion of IgG-relative to IgM-among antibodies elicited by conjugates prepared with purified GBS type V capsular polysaccharide (CPS) than among those...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-07-16)
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