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Nasal Immunization Confers High Avidity Neutralizing Antibody Response and Immunity to Primary and Recurrent Genital Herpes in Guinea Pigs

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in immunology, December 2016
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Title
Nasal Immunization Confers High Avidity Neutralizing Antibody Response and Immunity to Primary and Recurrent Genital Herpes in Guinea Pigs
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Frontiers in immunology, December 2016
DOI 10.3389/fimmu.2016.00640
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Authors

Josefine Persson, Yuan Zhang, Thorunn A. Olafsdottir, Karolina Thörn, Tina M. Cairns, Frank Wegmann, Quentin J. Sattentau, Roselyn J. Eisenberg, Gary H. Cohen, Ali M. Harandi

Abstract

Genital herpes is one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted infections in both the developing and developed world. Following infection, individuals experience life-long latency associated with sporadic ulcerative outbreaks. Despite many efforts, no vaccine has yet been licensed for human use. Herein, we demonstrated that nasal immunization with an adjuvanted HSV-2 gD envelope protein mounts significant protection to primary infection as well as the establishment of latency and recurrent genital herpes in guinea pigs. Nasal immunization was shown to elicit specific T cell proliferative and IFN-γ responses as well as systemic and vaginal gD-specific IgG antibody (Ab) responses. Furthermore, systemic IgG Abs displayed potent HSV-2 neutralizing properties and high avidity. By employing a competitive surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analysis combined with a battery of known gD-specific neutralizing monoclonal Abs (MAbs), we showed that nasal immunization generated IgG Abs directed to two major discontinuous neutralizing epitopes of gD. These results highlight the potential of nasal immunization with an adjuvanted HSV-2 envelope protein for induction of protective immunity to primary and recurrent genital herpes.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 15 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 20%
Other 2 13%
Student > Bachelor 2 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 13%
Student > Master 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 4 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 27%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 20%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 13%
Materials Science 1 7%
Unknown 5 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 January 2017.
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#14,559,962
of 25,411,814 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in immunology
#12,153
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#213,310
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in immunology
#147
of 314 outputs
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