Giuseppe
Emeritus
Vaccine. 2008 Oct 7. [Epub ahead of print]
Antibodies and CD4(+) T-cells mediate cross-protection against H5N1 influenza virus infection in mice after vaccination with a low pathogenic H5N2 strain.
Droebner K, Haasbach E, Fuchs C, Weinzierl AO, Stevanovic S, B?ttner M, Planz O. - Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Immunology, Paul-Ehrlich Str. 28, D-72076 T?bingen, Germany.
A H5N2 low pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAIV) was isolated from a natural reservoir in Bavaria during a routine screen and was used as a vaccine strain to scrutinize the immune response involved in cross-protection after challenge infection with a H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV).
The challenge virus was also isolated from a natural reservoir in Bavaria.
Wild type, antibody deficient (muMT), CD4(-/-) and CD8(-/-) mice were infected with the apathogenic H5N2 vaccine strain and challenge infection with a 100-fold MLD(50) of the H5N1 strain was performed 80 days later.
While 100% of the wild type and 100% of the CD8(-/-) mice stayed healthy, only 50% of the CD4(-/-) and none of the antibody deficient mice were protected.
These results support the view that the humoral immune response and to certain extends the CD4(+) T helper cells are a prerequisite for cross-protective immunity against H5 influenza virus.
PMID: 18848593 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher
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Antibodies and CD4(+) T-cells mediate cross-protection against H5N1 influenza virus infection in mice after vaccination with a low pathogenic H5N2 strain.
Droebner K, Haasbach E, Fuchs C, Weinzierl AO, Stevanovic S, B?ttner M, Planz O. - Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Immunology, Paul-Ehrlich Str. 28, D-72076 T?bingen, Germany.
A H5N2 low pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAIV) was isolated from a natural reservoir in Bavaria during a routine screen and was used as a vaccine strain to scrutinize the immune response involved in cross-protection after challenge infection with a H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV).
The challenge virus was also isolated from a natural reservoir in Bavaria.
Wild type, antibody deficient (muMT), CD4(-/-) and CD8(-/-) mice were infected with the apathogenic H5N2 vaccine strain and challenge infection with a 100-fold MLD(50) of the H5N1 strain was performed 80 days later.
While 100% of the wild type and 100% of the CD8(-/-) mice stayed healthy, only 50% of the CD4(-/-) and none of the antibody deficient mice were protected.
These results support the view that the humoral immune response and to certain extends the CD4(+) T helper cells are a prerequisite for cross-protective immunity against H5 influenza virus.
PMID: 18848593 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher
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