title: Immunization with a Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunotype 5 O polysaccharide-toxin A conjugate vaccine: effect of a booster dose on antibody levels in humans.
abstract: Healthy adult volunteers were vaccinated on day 0 and 28 and at 15 months with a Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunotype 5 O polysaccharide-toxin A conjugate vaccine. Immunization resulted in mild, transient local reactions in less than 20% of the subjects. Maximal immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody titers to both toxin A and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay were seen at day 42, at which time 50% of the vaccinees showed a fourfold or greater rise in toxin A-neutralizing titers. By 15 months postvaccination, both antitoxin A and anti-LPS IgG antibodies had markedly declined. A booster dose of vaccine administered at 15 months evoked a vigorous anti-toxin A IgG antibody response with 100% of the volunteers showing a fourfold or greater rise in neutralizing antibody titer compared with preimmunization levels. In contrast, there was no significant elevation of anti-LPS IgG antibody levels. At 24 months postimmunization, only anti-toxin A antibody levels were significantly higher than preimmunization levels.
authors: Swiss Serum and Vaccine Institute, Berne.
authors: S J
authors: SJ
authors: Cryz
authors: J C
authors: JC
authors: Sadoff
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Fürer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000276:immunology; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000276:immunology; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007117:Immunization, Secondary; D019081:O Antigens; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines; D019081:O Antigens; C029294:toxin A (Pseudomonas)