The pediatric formulations usually have 3-5 times as much of the diphtheria component than what is in the adult/ adolescent formulation. Similarly, the formulations for adults/adolescents have around one third of acellular pertussis content than pediatric formulations. The amount of tetanus toxoid in each of the products remains almost equivalent. Dose reduction for diphtheria and pertussis is ...

Relevance. It is known that antitoxic immunity saves from diphtheria, but does not prevent the carriage of Cd (tox+). Asymptomatic carriers (tox+) play a major role in maintaining epidemiological process diphtheria infection. Aims. Characteristics population composition and specifics kinetic reactions (tox-) simultaneously functioning among people. Results. The functional features specific indi...

Several diphtheria toxoid preparations were fractionated by salting out with ammonium sulphate at various concentrations into several fractions possessing evidently different immunizing potency. The fractions of lower solubility were proved to possess less potency than those of higher solubility when the comparison was performed at the same Lf dose6). This difference between the potency of thes...

BACKGROUND Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO-1 infections through immunological means has been proved to be efficient and protective. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to produce a conjugate vaccine composed of detoxified lipopolysaccharide (D-LPS) P. aeruginosa and diphtheria toxoid (DT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Firstly, LPS was purified and characterized from P. aeruginosa PAO1...

Thoracic duct cells obtained from normal (unimmunized) donors restored the primary hemolysin response of lethally irradiated or neonatally thymectomized rats to sheep red blood cells. Synergy between thoracic duct cells and bone-marrow cells was demonstrated in the irradiated hosts. However, thoracic duct cells did not restore the primary antibody response of irradiated rats challenged with dip...

The immunogenicity and protectivity of two different toxoid vaccines were compared in mice. In one formulation, toxoids (diphtheria or tetanus) were adsorbed to alumoxid, whereas in the other formulation the toxoids were crosslinked to immunopotentiating reconstituted influenza virosomes (IRIVs). A preimmunization with influenza antigens is necessary for a good anti-toxoid antibody response whe...

In this study, a formulation of Bordetella pertussis proteoliposome (PLBp), diphtheria, and tetanus toxoids and alum (DT-PLBp) was evaluated as a trivalent vaccine candidate in BALB/c mice. Vaccine-induced protection was estimated using the intranasal challenge for pertussis and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay fvto assess serological responses for diphtheria or tetanus. Both, diphtheria-tetan...

BACKGROUND Clinical diagnosis of diphtheria is often difficult, in particular in countries where the disease is rarely observed, such as Turkey. In 2011, after 12 years of no recorded diphtheria cases in Turkey, a 34-year-old woman was diagnosed with diphtheria; she later died of myocarditis. In this study, we aimed to demonstrate the diagnostic potential of an immunofluorescent antibody method...

The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) exhibits a number of T cell dysfunctions that develop concurrently with elevated blood pressure. Studies have shown a mitogen-induced lymphocyte suppression mediated in part by the production of interferon-γ (IFN-γ), which stimulated NO production by macrophages. To assess whether this immune suppression is reversible, SHR were immunized with diphtheria ...