Neutralizing and fluorescent antibody response in man after antirabies treatment with suckling rabbit brain vaccine

1965 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Gispen ◽  
B. Saathof

1964 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Jobst Wellensiek ◽  
Albert H. Coons

The physical presence of the antigen used to stimulate a secondary antibody response was demonstrated in the cells of popliteal lymph nodes. Rabbits previously injected with apoferritin (containing no iron), which was prepared from recrystallized horse ferritin, were given an injection of ferritin 5 weeks later. The antigen was traced by means of the Prussian blue reaction, by specific fluorescent antibody, and by electron microscopy. Antiferritin antibody was localized by immunofluorescence, though it was not possible to test cells simultaneously for antigen and antibody. Horse ferritin induces a rather weak primary antibody response, but a brisk secondary response characterized by the appearance in the medullary cords of numerous plasma cells containing antiferritin. Many intact ferritin molecules were found in the nucleus and cytoplasm of numerous reticular and other phagocytic cells in the sinuses. In decreasing amount, ferritin molecules were also clearly demonstrated in hemacytoblasts (plasmoblasts), and immature and mature plasmocytes.



2003 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.L. Freire ◽  
I.T. Navarro ◽  
A.P.F.R.L. Bracarense ◽  
S.M. Gennari

Immunity to Toxoplasma gondii was studied in pigs, after vaccination with T. gondii antigens incorporated into immunostimulating complexes. Nine pigs (group 1 - G1) were inoculated subcutaneously with T. gondii iscoms (LIV-5 sample) and three doses were given at 21 and 13 day-intervals. The results were compared in other three groups of nine pigs each: animals in group 2 (G2) were immunized with the LIV-5 antigens without Quil A, animals in group 3 (G3) were inoculated with tachyzoites of RH T. gondii isolate, and animals in group 4 (G4) received no vaccination. Four animals were neither vaccinated nor challenged with T. gondii (group 5 - G5). Thirty days after vaccination, pigs were challenged orally with 5´10(4) oocysts at AS-28 T. gondii isolate. Euthanasia was carried out 47 days after challenge and specimens of the heart, muscle, brain, liver, tongue and retina were inoculated into mice. Three out of nine pigs from G2 and one out of nine pigs from G4 showed hypertermia after the challenge. Antibody response was analysed by indirect fluorescent antibody test. The first iscom immunization (G1) induced low antibody levels, the second and third produced high antibody levels, similarly to the RH isolate infection (G3). Western blotting analysis indicated that the antibody response in animals in G1, after challenge, was more intense than in animals in the non-vaccinated group. T. gondii was not isolated by bioassays from tissues of iscom vaccinated pigs, while recovery was obtained from four animals in G4, one in G2 and one in G3.



2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karma Wangmo ◽  
Richard Laven ◽  
Florence Cliquet ◽  
Marine Wasniewski ◽  
Aaron Yang

In developing countries, the cost of vaccination limits the use of prophylactic rabies vaccination, especially in cattle. Intradermal vaccination delivers antigen directly to an area with higher number of antigen-presenting cells. Therefore, it could produce equivalent or higher antibody titres than conventional intramuscular vaccination even when a lower dose is given. This study aimed to compare the antibody response in cattle vaccinated intramuscularly with 1mL of inactivated rabies vaccine (Raksharab, Indian Immunologicals) against intradermally vaccinated cattle with 0.2mL of the same vaccine. The study was conducted in Haa province of Bhutan where rabies is not endemic. One hundred cattle from 27 farms were selected for the study. Virus neutralising antibody (VNA) response was measured using the fluorescent antibody virus neutralisation test on the day of vaccination (day 0) and 14, 30, 60 and 90 days later. Overall, 71% of intradermally vaccinated cattle and 89% of the intramuscularly vaccinated cattle produced a protective response (≥0.5IU/mL). This difference was significant (P<0.02) on days 14 and 30 post vaccination with 36 and 58% in the intradermal group having titres ≥0.5 IU/mL respectively compared to the equivalent figures of 78 and 77% in the intramuscular group. The mean VNA titres were lower for intradermal group than intramuscular group (p<0.001) with the mean difference being greater than 0.6 IU/mL. Although low dose intradermal vaccination did produce a detectable antibody response, it was inferior to intramuscular vaccination. Thus, although intradermal vaccination has the potential to reduce the cost of vaccination by reducing the dose required, this study showed that a single dose of 0.2mL intradermally was inferior to an intramuscular dose of 1mL. Further research evaluating dose and dose regimen is needed before intradermal vaccination using the Raksharab rabies vaccine can be recommended in cattle.



1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 513-518
Author(s):  
R H Kenyon ◽  
P G Canonico ◽  
L S Sammons ◽  
L R Bagley ◽  
C E Pedersen

Various techniques were compared to determine the most sensitive method for detection of rocky Mountain spotted fever antibody. A radiometabolic technique for detection of Rocky Mountain spotted fever antibody is also described. In infected monkeys, the fluorescent antibody technique yielded the earliest evidence of seroconversion; with some monkeys the microagglutination procedure was equally effective. The fluorescent antibody and microagglutination measurements showed higher titers than those for complement fixation, Weil-Felix, or the radiometabolic techniques.



1965 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Grispen ◽  
G. J. P. Sehmittmann ◽  
B. Saathof


Parasitology ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. P. H. Duffus ◽  
D. Franks

SUMMARYFreshly excystedFasciola hepaticapossess an outer glycocalyx which stimulates an antibody response in cattle infected withF. hepaticametacercariae. Sera from animals receiving either a single or a double infection were examined for levels of IgM, IgG1and IgG2specific for the outer glycocalyx of intact live juvenileF. hepatica. High levels of specific IgG1were found to predominate. Using positive sera in an indirect fluorescent antibody assay, the bovine immunoglobulins labelled the outer glycocalyx in a characteristic reticulated pattern. On incubation at 37 °C this pattern rapidly broke up into discrete clumps and progressed until the entire antibody–outer glycocalyx complex was shed. The shedding phenomenon was shown to be continuous and, by using preparations of Fab fragments, was not due to the bivalent binding of the sensitizing antibody.



1974 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Ponnudurai ◽  
D. A. Denham ◽  
G. S. Nelson ◽  
Rosemary Rogers

AbstractUsing the indirect fluorescent antibody technique, the antibody response of cats to Brugia pahangi infections was studied using whole microfilariae and sectioned adult worms of B. pahangi as antigens. Microfilarial antigen was ineffective in detecting antibody response in cats during the microfilaraemic phase of the infection, although it was possible to detect circulating antibody in cats which became microfilaria negative after repeated and prolonged reinfection and in one cat which after infection failed to show microfilariae in its blood





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