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VACCINE
Volume 19, Issue 9-10, Pages 1038-1046Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(00)00344-3
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RSV; Th1; Th2; DNA vaccines
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Complete protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection was induced in mice vaccinated on two occasions with 2.5 mug of DNA, encoding the fusion (F) protein of RSV, precipitated onto gold microbeads. In contrast, immunisation with DNA encoding the attachment (G) protein of RSV resulted in a significant reduction in viral load following infection, but did not afford complete protection. Gene gun delivery of DNA-F elicited a T helper-2 (Th2) biased immune response that could not be modulated by the co-delivery of plasmids encoding IL-2, IL-12 or IFN gamma. Similarly gene gun delivery of DNA-G primed a Th2 response. Thus, all gene gun vaccinated mice produced a predominant Th2 biased pulmonary immune response characterised by the production of IL-4 and IL-5 with little IFN gamma following RSV challenge. Analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cells, 5 days post challenge, indicated that there was only a two-fold increase in the number of inflammatory cells in vaccinated compared with control animals. Despite the strong Th2 cytokine bias of lung lymphocytes and the predominant recruitment of CD4(+) T cells, following challenge, there was not a marked pulmonary eosinophilic response (range from 2 to 7% of BAL). In contrast, the BAL from mice vaccinated with control plasmid contained significantly more eosinophils than any other group. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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