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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-4-1
pubmed:abstractText
To eradicate measles in developing nations a vaccine capable of being administered at birth may be necessary. We immunized newborn rhesus macaques with naked DNA encoding the measles virus hemagglutinin, fusion and nucleoprotein genes. Prior to vaccination we passively transferred measles immunoglobulin to mimic maternal antibody. In the presence or absence of measles immunoglobulin, 23 of 25 infant macaques had detectable cell mediated immunity and 16 had protective levels of neutralizing antibody. The co-administration of an IL-2/IgG plasmid augmented the vaccine, increasing cell mediated immunity in all infants and increasing the antibody response in infants vaccinated without immunoglobulin. We show for the first time that DNA vaccination can protect a newborn primate from the high-level viremia that correlates with severe measles, even in the presence of maternal antibody. Further, the addition of a molecular IL-2 adjuvant augments this DNA vaccine.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0042-6822
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
307
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
67-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Antibodies, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-California, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-DNA, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Disease Outbreaks, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Genes, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Immunity, Cellular, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Immunity, Maternally-Acquired, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Immunization, Passive, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Macaca mulatta, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Measles, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Measles virus, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Primate Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Vaccines, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:12667815-Viral Structural Proteins
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
DNA vaccination of infants in the presence of maternal antibody: a measles model in the primate.
pubmed:affiliation
California National Primate Research Center and Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California-Davis, County Road 98, Davis, CA 95616-8542, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.