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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-10-3
pubmed:abstractText
Encapsulated bacteria cause some of the most common diseases in humans. Although the polysaccharide capsules of these pathogens have attracted the most attention with regard to vaccine development, recent evidence suggests that bacterial surface proteins may also be used to confer protective immunity. We have analyzed this possibility in group B streptococcus (GBS), an encapsulated bacterium that is the major cause of invasive bacterial disease in the neonatal period. Previous work has shown that the majority of GBS strains causing invasive infections express the Rib protein, and that most strains lacking Rib express a protein designated alpha. Here we report that active immunization with highly purified preparations of Rib or alpha protected mice against lethal infection with strains expressing the corresponding protein. Vaccination with the Rib protein protected against two strains of capsular type III and two strains of type II, and vaccination with the alpha protein protected against one strain of type II and one strain of type Ib. The mice vaccinated with Rib or alpha showed a good immunoglobulin G response to the immunogen. These data suggest that a vaccine against GBS disease may be based on cell surface proteins and support the notion that proteins may be used for immunization against encapsulated bacteria.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0019-9567
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
64
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3518-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Experimental vaccination against group B streptococcus, an encapsulated bacterium, with highly purified preparations of cell surface proteins Rib and alpha.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Microbiology, Lund University, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't