Modeling specific antibody responses to natural immunization to predict a correlate of protection against infection before commencing a clinical vaccine trial

Background Clinical trials of vaccines for children to prevent acute otitis media (AOM) infections caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pneumonia (Spn) are in Phase I. The objective of this study was to use serum antibody measurements to pneumococcal purified protein candidate antigens that occurred...

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Main Authors: Anthony Almudevar, Michael E. Pichichero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-10-01
Series:Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2017.1329064