Human Circulating Antibody-Producing B Cell as a Predictive Measure of Mucosal Immunity to Poliovirus.

BACKGROUND:The "gold standard" for assessing mucosal immunity after vaccination with poliovirus vaccines consists in measuring virus excretion in stool after challenge with oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV). This testing is time and resource intensive, and development of alternative methods is...

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Main Authors: Ayan Dey, Natalie A Molodecky, Harish Verma, Prashant Sharma, Jae Seung Yang, Giulietta Saletti, Mohammad Ahmad, Sunil K Bahl, Thomas F Wierzba, Ranjan K Nandy, Jagadish M Deshpande, Roland W Sutter, Cecil Czerkinsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4701219?pdf=render