The transfer and decay of maternal antibody against Shigella sonnei in a longitudinal cohort of Vietnamese infants

Shigella sonnei is an emergent and major diarrheal pathogen for which there is currently no vaccine. We aimed to quantify duration of maternal antibody against S. sonnei and investigate transplacental IgG transfer in a birth cohort in southern Vietnam.Over 500-paired maternal/infant plasma samples w...

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Main Authors: Thompson, C, Le, T, Anders, K, Nguyen, T, Lu, L, Nguyen, V, Vu, T, Nguyen, N, Tran, T, Ha, T, Tran, V, Pham, V, Tran, D, Saul, A, Martin, L, Podda, A, Gerke, C, Thwaites, G, Simmons, C, Baker, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015