Priming Vaccination With Influenza Virus H5 Hemagglutinin Antigen Significantly Increases the Duration of T cell Responses Induced by a Heterologous H5 Booster Vaccination

Conclusions. H5 heterotypic priming prior to onset of an A(H5N1) pandemic may increase magnitude and duration of immunity against a newly drifted pandemic H5 virus.

Source: The Journal of Infectious Diseases - September 12, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Hoft, D. F., Lottenbach, K., Goll, J. B., Hill, H., Winokur, P. L., Patel, S. M., Brady, R. C., Chen, W. H., Edwards, K., Creech, C. B., Frey, S. E., Blevins, T. P., Salomon, R., Belshe, R. B. Tags: VIRUSES Source Type: research