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Frequent failure of adolescent booster responses to tetanus toxoid despite infant immunization: waning of infancy-induced immune memory?
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Posfay Barbe, Clara
Kobela, Marie
Sottas, Cédric Ernest
Grillet, Stéphane
Taguebue, Jean
Ekoe, Tetanye
Lambert, Paul Henri
Lecoultre, Claude
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Published in Vaccine. 2010, vol. 28, no. 27, p. 4356-4361
Abstract To define the capacity of a tetanus toxoid booster to reactivate infant-triggered immunity, anti-tetanus antibodies were assessed before and after boosting 162 adolescents and 219 children from Mfou (Cameroon). Among 63 adolescents with 3 recorded dose of infant DTP, 29/63 (46%) responded with a ≥ 4-fold increase of antibody titers, 35/63 (55%) reaching the 0.10UI/ml threshold. Response rates were slightly higher (62%) in children aged 10-11 years. Responders and non-responders only differed significantly in their baseline anti-tetanus antibodies. Thus, early life immune immaturity may limit the persistence of infant-induced immunity and subsequent boosters may be required for sustained protection.
Keywords Adolescent — Antibodies, Bacterial/immunology — Child — Female — Humans — *Immunization — *Immunization, Secondary — Infant — Male — Tetanus Toxoid/*administration & dosage/*immunology
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PMID: 20447475
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de pathologie et immunologie
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de pédiatrie
Research groups Centre de Vaccinologie et d'Immunologie néonatale (177)
Groupe Posfay-Barbe Clara (pédiatrie générale) (853)
Recherche clinique en chirurgie pédiatrique (886)
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(ISO format) 		POSFAY BARBE, Clara et al. Frequent failure of adolescent booster responses to tetanus toxoid despite infant immunization: waning of infancy-induced immune memory?. In: Vaccine, 2010, vol. 28, n° 27, p. 4356-4361. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:21227

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