Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus vaccines induce mucosal IgA responses and protection from airborne infection in BALB/c, but not C3H/HeN mice

Autor: Ferdinand Panelo, Mary Kate Hart, William D. Pratt, Mark T. Dertzbaugh, Ralph Tammariello
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Vaccine. 15:363-369
ISSN: 0264-410X
DOI: 10.1016/s0264-410x(96)00204-6
Popis: Immunization with either a live-attenuated (TC-83) or formalin-inactivated (C-84) vaccine for Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus protected BALB/c mice from lethal VEE infection acquired subcutaneously or by aerosol. While vaccinated C3H/HeN mice were also protected from parenteral infection, neither vaccine protected these mice from an aerosol infection. The apparent vaccine failures in C3H/HeN mice could not be attributed to deficiencies in virus-neutralizing antibodies in serum, as these responses were typically of equal or higher titer than those observed in protected BALB/c mice before challenge. IgG subclass analysis offered no facile explanation: profiles of IgG2a dominance were observed in C3H/HeN mice given either vaccine and in BALB/c mice given the live-attenuated vaccine, whereas BALB/c antibody responses shifted toward IgG1 dominance after immunization with the killed C-84 vaccine. Data from immunized congenic showed that the H-2 genes from the C3H/He mice were not singularly responsible for the inability of these mice to resist aerosol infection with VEE virus. VEE virus-specific IgA responses were detected more frequently in respiratory and vaginal secretions obtained from the protected BALB/c mice.
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