title: Antipoliomyelitis immunity status among a population that was regularly vaccinated 11-12 years before.
abstract: A study of poliomyelitis neutralizing antibodies was carried out on 165 samples of blood serum drawn from subjects aged 14-15 years who had completed vaccination with OPV 11 or 12 years ago. Two different methods of incubation of the serum-virus mixtures (1 hour at 37 degrees C; 6 hours at 37 degrees C and then 18 hours at 4 degrees C, respectively) and two different cell lines (RC-37 and Hep-2) for the inoculation of these mixtures were employed. The results were also evaluated in relation to different initial dilutions of the sera (from 1:4 to 1:1). With the 1:4 initial serum dilution the highest frequencies of sero-negativity were observed utilizing the short incubation time and inoculation in Hep-2 (42% for polio 1, 10% for polio 2, 32% for polio 3). These frequencies diminish significantly utilizing the RC-37 cell line and the long incubation respectively. Under all the experimental conditions the results were better when the 1:2 initial serum dilutions were employed and even better when undiluted sera were used. Neutralizing antibodies against the 3 types of poliovirus were detected in the undiluted sera of all the subjects utilizing the long incubation and inoculation in either the RC-37 or the Hep-2 cell lines. In three subjects lacking detectable antibodies at the 1:4 dilution of the sera, the administration of a dose of IPV produced after 5-7 days a high response which remained almost unchanged 30 days later.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Igiene, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bellelli
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Tanzi
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bocelli
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Bracchi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Affanni
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D002460:Cell Line; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D017955:Poliovirus / Q000276:immunology*; D011055:Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral / Q000276:immunology*; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D011055:Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral