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AIDS
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 11-21Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200001070-00002
Keywords
antibodies; antiretroviral therapy; delayed-type hypersensitivity responses; keyhole limpet hemocyanin; hepatitis A; immune activation; immunization; lymphocyte proliferative responses; pathogenesis; protease inhibitors; tetanus toxoid
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI-25879, AI-32770, AI-32790] Funding Source: Medline
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Objectives: To ascertain if immunization results in the restoration of responses to recall antigens, in the development of responses to presumed neoantigens, and to identify the virologic and immunologic correlates of these responses in persons with HIV-1 infection. Design and setting: Open-label study carried out at three university-affiliate AIDS Clinical Trials Units in the United States. Subjects and methods: Thirty-one subjects participating in AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 375 who had received zidovudine, lamivudine, and ritonavir for at least 48 weeks. Subjects were immunized with tetanus toroid (TT) at entry and with inactivated hepatitis A vaccine (hep A) and keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) at entry and 6 weeks. The development of antibody, lymphocyte proliferative assay (LPA), and delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) responses after immunization were monitored. Results: The LPA and DTH responses to TT improved in 57 and 68% of participants, respectively; 73 and 65% developed enhanced LPA and DTH responses to KLH. Forty-eight percent of patients developed a four-fold increase in antibody concentration to tetanus. Seventy-three percent of patients without detectable hepatitis A antibodies at baseline developed antibodies after, immunization. Eighty-three percent of patients experienced at least a four-fold rise in,KLH antibody concentration. Immune activation and viral load predicted poor recall responses and the number of memory CD4+ T-cells predicted good responses to recall antigens. Naive CD4+ T-cell numbers, decrease in viral load, increases in CD4+ and CD28+ cells, and decreases in immune activation were associated with responses to presumed neoantigens.
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