Giuseppe
Emeritus
Vaccine. 2009 Sep 14. [Epub ahead of print]
Humoral and cellular immune responses to split-virion H5N1 influenza vaccine in young and elderly adults.
Leroux-Roels I, Van der Wielen M, Kafeja F, Vandermeulen C, Lazarus R, Snape MD, John T, Carre C, Nougarede N, Pepin S, Leroux-Roels G, Hoppenbrouwers K, Pollard AJ, Van Damme P. - Center for Vaccinology, Ghent University and Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
We evaluated the humoral and cellular immunogenicity of adjuvanted and non-adjuvanted H5N1 influenza vaccine in two groups of 300 adults: aged 18-60 and >60 years in a randomized, open-label, uncontrolled phase 2 trial. Participants received two injections (D0, D21) of 7.5mug hemagglutinin without adjuvant or 30mug with aluminum hydroxide adjuvant. Antibody responses and cytokine secretion were assessed before and after vaccination. Excluding the 6/300 non-elderly and 47/300 elderly participants with pre-existing antibodies, geometric mean titers (dil(-1)) on D42 were higher with 30mug+Ad and were comparable between age groups. Participants with pre-existing antibodies responded strongly to the first vaccination (GMTs in the range 147-228 on D21). Vaccination increased both Th1 and Th2 T-cell responses. The predominantly Th1 profile observed before vaccination was unaffected by vaccination. H5N1 influenza vaccine is no less immunogenic in elderly adults than in younger adults and, due to a higher proportion non-na?ve elderly, immunogenicity was higher in this latter group.
PMID: 19761837 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Humoral and cellular immune responses to split-virion H5N1 influenza vaccine in young and elderly adults.
Leroux-Roels I, Van der Wielen M, Kafeja F, Vandermeulen C, Lazarus R, Snape MD, John T, Carre C, Nougarede N, Pepin S, Leroux-Roels G, Hoppenbrouwers K, Pollard AJ, Van Damme P. - Center for Vaccinology, Ghent University and Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
We evaluated the humoral and cellular immunogenicity of adjuvanted and non-adjuvanted H5N1 influenza vaccine in two groups of 300 adults: aged 18-60 and >60 years in a randomized, open-label, uncontrolled phase 2 trial. Participants received two injections (D0, D21) of 7.5mug hemagglutinin without adjuvant or 30mug with aluminum hydroxide adjuvant. Antibody responses and cytokine secretion were assessed before and after vaccination. Excluding the 6/300 non-elderly and 47/300 elderly participants with pre-existing antibodies, geometric mean titers (dil(-1)) on D42 were higher with 30mug+Ad and were comparable between age groups. Participants with pre-existing antibodies responded strongly to the first vaccination (GMTs in the range 147-228 on D21). Vaccination increased both Th1 and Th2 T-cell responses. The predominantly Th1 profile observed before vaccination was unaffected by vaccination. H5N1 influenza vaccine is no less immunogenic in elderly adults than in younger adults and, due to a higher proportion non-na?ve elderly, immunogenicity was higher in this latter group.
PMID: 19761837 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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