Prevaccination Rotavirus Serum IgG and IgA Are Associated With Lower Immunogenicity of Live, Oral Human Rotavirus Vaccine in South African Infants
Author(s) -
Sung-Sil Moon,
Michelle J. Groome,
Daniel E. Velásquez,
Umesh D. Parashar,
Stephanie Jones,
Antoinette Koen,
Nadia van Niekerk,
Baoming Jiang,
Shabir A. Madhi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/civ828
Subject(s) - immunogenicity , medicine , rotavirus vaccine , rotavirus , immunology , immunoglobulin a , virology , reoviridae , immunoglobulin g , vaccination , antibody , virus
Live oral rotavirus (RV) vaccines have shown modest efficacy among children in African countries for reasons that are not completely understood. We examined the possible inhibitory effect of preexisting antirotavirus antibodies on immunogenicity of monovalent RV vaccine (RV1).
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