Obesity Outweighs Protection Conferred by Adjuvanted Influenza Vaccination

Obesity is a risk factor for developing severe influenza virus infection, making vaccination of utmost importance for this high-risk population. However, vaccinated obese animals and adults have decreased neutralizing antibody responses. In these studies, we tested the hypothesis that the addition o...

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Main Authors: Erik A. Karlsson, Tomer Hertz, Cydney Johnson, Andrew Mehle, Florian Krammer, Stacey Schultz-Cherry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-08-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/4/e01144-16

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