Post-Exposure Vaccination Improves Gammaherpesvirus Neutralization
Laurent Gillet, Janet S. May, Philip G. Stevenson · 2007
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Laurent Gillet, Janet May and Philip Stevenson tested whether vaccinating virus carriers could sharpen their antibodies, in PLOS ONE in 2007. Herpesviruses stay in the body for life. Carriers still spread the virus even though they make antibodies against it, so those antibodies are clearly not the best they could be.
The team used a mouse gammaherpesvirus to ask whether a later vaccine dose improves neutralization, the ability of antibodies to block the virus. The question reaches beyond one virus. If carriers can be helped to neutralize better, infection control gains a new lever. The study frames that hope as a testable claim.
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| CREATOR | Laurent Gillet, Janet S. May, Philip G. Stevenson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000899