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Editor, Senior Moderator
Vaccine. 2012 Nov 1. pii: S0264-410X(12)01538-1. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.10.077. [Epub ahead of print]
Assessment of functional antibacterial opsonophagocytic antibodies elicited by 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine administered concomitantly with trivalent influenza vaccine in a randomized clinical trial in adults aged ≥65 years.
Schwarz TF, Schmoele-Thoma B.
Source
Central Laboratory and Vaccination Centre, Stiftung Juliusspital, Juliuspromenade 19, 97070 W?rzburg, Germany. Electronic address: t.schwarz@juliusspital.de.
Abstract
A randomized, double-blind clinical trial compared immune responses elicited by concomitant administration of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) and trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (PCV13+TIV), with PCV13 given 1 month after TIV, in healthy, pneumococcal vaccine-na?ve adults aged ≥65 years. Serotype-specific pneumococcal anti-polysaccharide IgG antibody concentrations 1-month post-vaccination were uniformly lower after PCV13+TIV, than after PCV13 alone (Vaccine 2011;29:5195-202). Therefore, post hoc analyses to evaluate the functional antibody titers at 1-month post-vaccination, as measured by opsonophagocytic activity (OPA) assays, were performed. The anti-pneumococcal functional responses, while also generally lower after vaccine co-administration, nonetheless showed a greater degree of similarity between the two vaccine groups than was apparent from the anti-polysaccharide antibody responses. In particular, the proportion of OPA responders after PCV13 and TIV co-administration was similar to that observed after PCV13 alone for all serotypes evaluated. Concomitant use of PCV13 and TIV should therefore be guided by clinical circumstances.
Copyright ? 2012. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PMID:
23123107
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23123107
Assessment of functional antibacterial opsonophagocytic antibodies elicited by 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine administered concomitantly with trivalent influenza vaccine in a randomized clinical trial in adults aged ≥65 years.
Schwarz TF, Schmoele-Thoma B.
Source
Central Laboratory and Vaccination Centre, Stiftung Juliusspital, Juliuspromenade 19, 97070 W?rzburg, Germany. Electronic address: t.schwarz@juliusspital.de.
Abstract
A randomized, double-blind clinical trial compared immune responses elicited by concomitant administration of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) and trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (PCV13+TIV), with PCV13 given 1 month after TIV, in healthy, pneumococcal vaccine-na?ve adults aged ≥65 years. Serotype-specific pneumococcal anti-polysaccharide IgG antibody concentrations 1-month post-vaccination were uniformly lower after PCV13+TIV, than after PCV13 alone (Vaccine 2011;29:5195-202). Therefore, post hoc analyses to evaluate the functional antibody titers at 1-month post-vaccination, as measured by opsonophagocytic activity (OPA) assays, were performed. The anti-pneumococcal functional responses, while also generally lower after vaccine co-administration, nonetheless showed a greater degree of similarity between the two vaccine groups than was apparent from the anti-polysaccharide antibody responses. In particular, the proportion of OPA responders after PCV13 and TIV co-administration was similar to that observed after PCV13 alone for all serotypes evaluated. Concomitant use of PCV13 and TIV should therefore be guided by clinical circumstances.
Copyright ? 2012. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PMID:
23123107
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23123107