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Editor, Senior Moderator
Sci Rep. 2016 Feb 8;6:20385. doi: 10.1038/srep20385.
[h=1]Changes in heterosubtypic antibody responses during the first year of the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza pandemic.[/h] Freidl GS[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], van den Ham HJ[SUP]1[/SUP], Boni MF[SUP]3,[/SUP][SUP]4[/SUP], de Bruin E[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Koopmans MP[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] Seropositivity to avian influenza (AI) via low-level antibody titers has been reported in the general population and poultry-exposed individuals, raising the question whether these findings reflect true infection with AI or cross-reactivity. Here we investigated serological profiles against human and avian influenza viruses in the general population using a protein microarray platform. We hypothesized that higher antibody diversity across recent H1 and H3 influenza viruses would be associated with heterosubtypic reactivity to older pandemic- and AI viruses. We found significant heterogeneity in antibody profiles. Increased antibody diversity to seasonal influenza viruses was associated with low-level heterosubtypic antibodies to H9 and H7, but not to H5 AI virus. Individuals exposed to the recent 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic showed higher heterosubtypic reactivity. We show that there is a complex interplay between prior exposures to seasonal and recent pandemic influenza viruses and the development of heterosubtypic antibody reactivity to animal influenza viruses.
PMID: 26853924 [PubMed - in process]
[h=1]Changes in heterosubtypic antibody responses during the first year of the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza pandemic.[/h] Freidl GS[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], van den Ham HJ[SUP]1[/SUP], Boni MF[SUP]3,[/SUP][SUP]4[/SUP], de Bruin E[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Koopmans MP[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
- [SUP]1[/SUP]Viroscience Department, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
- [SUP]2[/SUP]Virology Department, Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Diagnostics and Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
- [SUP]3[/SUP]Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- [SUP]4[/SUP]Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
[h=3]Abstract[/h] Seropositivity to avian influenza (AI) via low-level antibody titers has been reported in the general population and poultry-exposed individuals, raising the question whether these findings reflect true infection with AI or cross-reactivity. Here we investigated serological profiles against human and avian influenza viruses in the general population using a protein microarray platform. We hypothesized that higher antibody diversity across recent H1 and H3 influenza viruses would be associated with heterosubtypic reactivity to older pandemic- and AI viruses. We found significant heterogeneity in antibody profiles. Increased antibody diversity to seasonal influenza viruses was associated with low-level heterosubtypic antibodies to H9 and H7, but not to H5 AI virus. Individuals exposed to the recent 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic showed higher heterosubtypic reactivity. We show that there is a complex interplay between prior exposures to seasonal and recent pandemic influenza viruses and the development of heterosubtypic antibody reactivity to animal influenza viruses.
PMID: 26853924 [PubMed - in process]