scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Correlates of Protection Induced by Vaccination

Stanley A. Plotkin
- 01 Jul 2010 - 
- Vol. 17, Iss: 7, pp 1055-1065
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This paper attempts to summarize current knowledge about immune responses to vaccines that correlate with protection, finding some vaccines have no true correlates, but only useful surrogates, for an unknown protective response.
Abstract
This paper attempts to summarize current knowledge about immune responses to vaccines that correlate with protection. Although the immune system is redundant, almost all current vaccines work through antibodies in serum or on mucosa that block infection or bacteremia/viremia and thus provide a correlate of protection. The functional characteristics of antibodies, as well as quantity, are important. Antibody may be highly correlated with protection or synergistic with other functions. Immune memory is a critical correlate: effector memory for short-incubation diseases and central memory for long-incubation diseases. Cellular immunity acts to kill or suppress intracellular pathogens and may also synergize with antibody. For some vaccines, we have no true correlates, but only useful surrogates, for an unknown protective response.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Vaccine Adjuvants: Putting Innate Immunity to Work

TL;DR: There remains a need for improved adjuvants that enhance protective antibody responses, especially in populations that respond poorly to current vaccines, and the larger challenge is to develop vaccines that generate strong T cell immunity with purified or recombinant vaccine antigens.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

A vaccine to prevent herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia in older adults.

TL;DR: The zoster vaccine markedly reduced morbidity from herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia among older adults and significantly reduced the burden of illness due to herpesZoster.
Journal ArticleDOI

Quadrivalent vaccine against human papillomavirus to prevent high-grade cervical lesions

TL;DR: In young women who had not been previously infected with HPV-16 or HPV-18, those in the vaccine group had a significantly lower occurrence of high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia related to HPV- 16 or HPV -18 than did those inThe placebo group.
Journal ArticleDOI

Pathogenesis of dengue: challenges to molecular biology

TL;DR: This work has identified a severe syndrome, dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome, in Southeast Asian children, which recently has also been identified in children infected with the virus in Puerto Rico.
Related Papers (5)