title: B cell responses to H5 influenza HA in human subjects vaccinated with a drifted variant.
abstract: B cell responses after immunization with a drifted H5 influenza/A/Vietnam/1203/04 vaccine were characterized in the peripheral blood of human subjects primed with experimental recombinant H5 influenza A/Hong Kong/156/97 vaccine. Antibody secreting cells were assayed by ELISPOT against a panel of recombinant hemagglutinin and control proteins. Increased frequencies of H5 HA-specific antibody secreting and memory B cells could be observed within 7 days of re-vaccination. Furthermore, these responses were cross-reactive to both H5 HA variants, but not H3 or avian H6 HA strains. These observations suggest prior vaccination against H5 influenza HA induces cellular immune responses that cross-react among drifted variants, without precluding a response to new, or existing HA strains.
authors.affiliation: David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Aab Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rochester, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baer
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Santiago
authors.forename: Hongmei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Hulin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Jeanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Holden-Wiltse
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Treanor
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Topham
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D001769:Blood / Q000276:immunology*; D003429:Cross Reactions; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D019267:Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus / Q000276:immunology*; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D007156:Immunologic Memory; D007252:Influenza Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D016131:Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D019267:Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus; D007252:Influenza Vaccines; C109963:hemagglutinin, avian influenza A virus