Hemagglutination inhibiting antibodies and protection against seasonal and pandemic influenza infection - 17/01/15
, Le Quynh Mai d, Le Thi Thanh d, Marcel Wolbers a, b, Nguyen Le Khanh Hang d, Pham Quang Thai d, Nguyen Thi Thu Yen d, Le Nguyen Minh Hoa a, Juliet E. Bryant a, b, Tran Nhu Duong d, Dang Dinh Thoang e, Ian G. Barr f, Heiman Wertheim a, b, Jeremy Farrar a, b, Nguyen Tran Hien d, Peter Horby a, bSummary |
Objectives |
Hemagglutination inhibiting (HI) antibodies correlate with influenza vaccine protection but their association with protection induced by natural infection has received less attention and was studied here.
Methods |
940 people from 270 unvaccinated households participated in active ILI surveillance spanning 3 influenza seasons. At least 494 provided paired blood samples spanning each season. Influenza infection was confirmed by RT-PCR on nose/throat swabs or serum HI assay conversion.
Results |
Pre-season homologous HI titer was associated with a significantly reduced risk of infection for H3N2 (OR 0.61, 95%CI 0.44–0.84) and B (0.65, 95%CI 0.54–0.80) strains, but not H1N1 strains, whether re-circulated (OR 0.90, 95%CI 0.71–1.15), new seasonal (OR 0.86, 95%CI 0.54–1.36) or pandemic H1N1-2009 (OR 0.77, 95%CI 0.40–1.49). The risk of seasonal and pandemic H1N1 decreased with increasing age (both p < 0.0001), and the risk of pandemic H1N1 decreased with prior seasonal H1N1 (OR 0.23, 95%CI 0.08–0.62) without inducing measurable A/California/04/2009-like titers.
Conclusions |
While H1N1 immunity was apparent with increasing age and prior infection, the effect of pre-season HI titer was at best small, and weak for H1N1 compared to H3N2 and B. Antibodies targeting non-HI epitopes may have been more important mediators of infection-neutralizing immunity for H1N1 compared to other subtypes in this setting.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Highlights |
• | The determinants of influenza immunity were examined in an unvaccinated cohort. |
• | The risk of H3N2 and B infection decreased with increasing pre-season HI titer. |
• | Pre-season HI titer had less effect on H1N1 infection. |
• | H1N1 immunity increased with age and seasonal H1N1 induced pandemic H1N1 immunity. |
• | The contribution of non-HI antibodies to immunity may be relatively high for H1N1. |
Keywords : Influenza, Human, Hemagglutination inhibition tests, Immunity, Humoral, Antibody, Neutralizing, Pandemics, Humans
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Vol 70 - N° 2
P. 187-196 - février 2015 Retour au numéro
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