title: Reduced schedule of human antirabies immunization with Fuenzalida & Palacios vaccine.
abstract: The present study evaluates the humoral and cellular immune responses in 35 volunteers submitted to short antirabies vaccination schedules with the Fuenzalida & Palacios vaccine based on the administration of doses on non consecutive days. The volunteers were divided into two groups. The first group received a total number of five doses given on days 0, 4, 7, 20 and 35. The other group received four doses, the first one being a double dose given on day 0 and than three other single doses on days 7, 20 and 35. The evaluation of humoral immune response was carried out by serum neutralization (SN) and indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) tests, while the cellular immune response was evaluated by lymphoblastic transformation assay (LTA) and skin test (ST). According to our results these reduced schedules elicited early and effective humoral and cellular immune responses to rabies antigen suggesting that new reduced schedules should be extensively studied in order to give the proper bases to the proposition of changes in the current long-term schedule.
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Zanetti
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Favoretto
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Tino
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Albas
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Valentini
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Pereira
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D000917:Antibody Formation; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007114:Immunization; D007159:Immunologic Tests; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D008875:Middle Aged; D011819:Rabies Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000276:immunology*; D012882:Skin Tests
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D011819:Rabies Vaccines