Enhanced protection against influenza virus of mice immunized as newborns with a mixture of plasmids expressing hemagglutinin and nucleoprotein.
Effective immunization of neonates is an important goal for vaccinology. We show that inoculation of newborn mice with a mixture of plasmids expressing influenza hemagglutinin (HA) and nucleoprotein (NP) genes leads to an enhanced protection subsequent to the lethal challenge with two distinct strains. In sharp contrast, neonatal injection with UV-inactivated influenza virus strain WSN, failed to induce protection against the homologous challenge. Our results show that while plasmid immunization of neonates elicits a protective immunity, the immunization with inactivated virus does not.
Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D004306:Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic; D019267:Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus / Q000276:immunology*; D007114:Immunization; D007252:Influenza Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; D009698:Nucleoproteins; D010957:Plasmids; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology; D006377:T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / Q000276:immunology; D019444:Vaccines, DNA / Q000276:immunology*; D014758:Viral Core Proteins / Q000276:immunology*
D019267:Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus; D007252:Influenza Vaccines; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; D009698:Nucleoproteins; D019444:Vaccines, DNA; D014758:Viral Core Proteins