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Filter by:Introduction: Vaccination is a powerful weapon in the fight against infectious diseases, which has led to dramatic reduction in mortality and complications from some diseases. In this respect, vaccination is a real worldwide public health challenge (WHO). Thus, vaccine research benefits from an exponential development of knowledge in immunology and biotechnology. In particular, the advent of recent tools ("omics", new cytometric assays) and the description of new categories of immune cells (Tfh, BReg...) have revolutionized the characterization of immune responses, particularly post-vaccination. To study of the immune response following vaccination remains essential in order to define the immunological correlates to vaccine protection. This response also varies according to parameters related to the vaccine (type, adjuvant, dose, regimen…) and to the vaccinated host (genetics, age, morbidity, treatment …). Analyzing with new generation immune assays, new data on immunological responses post-vaccination from a clinical cohort is therefore essential to better define these correlates. Objective: To develop new vaccines (HIV, emerging infectious diseases) the investigators use a "System vaccinology" method to decipher the mechanisms of immune responses set up against vaccines currently being developed or marketed, specifically in specific populations (patients with primary immune deficiency, sickle cell patients, solid organ transplanted patients, COPD). Method: Description of the genetic, molecular and cellular mechanisms of the immune response to vaccines recommended for adults, in particular influenza and pneumococcal vaccines, but also other mandatory vaccines (MMR,...) or vaccine for travelers (yellow fever, ...) as part of routine care in different population categories (healthy subjects, HIV+ subjects, COPD patients, …), using qualitative and quantitative immunological assays: transcriptional analysis of the dynamic innate immune response, analysis of the lymphocytes B & T responses (phenotype, repertoire analysis, functional analysis including T reg and TFH populations, antibody response), genetic analysis in the context of primary immune deficiencies) Conclusion: The data generated will allow the best possible analysis of vaccine responses according to vaccines and vaccinated populations, providing important information for the research developed within the department.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate immunologic response to different types of influenza vaccine among children/adolescents/young adults 4-20 years of age. This is a randomized controlled trial (RCT), that will assess immune response in 120 participants (60 per vaccine arm) pre- and post-vaccination to Flucelvax (egg-free inactivated flu shot) and Fluzone (egg-based inactivated flu shot).
The trial aims to evaluate role of metabolic factors including systemic 25-OH D and diabetes in the adaptive immune response (haemagluttination inhibition titer) to influenza vaccine in the elderly. The influenza vaccine administered in this study will be licensed trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine. Elderly who are age above 65 including those with co-morbidities such as diabetes mellitus will be included. The study has its inclusion and exclusion criteria to determine eligibility for participation.
The objective of the present study is to evaluate the capability of the probiotic strain Lactobacillus coryniformis K8 CECT5711 (Lc K8) to enhance the immune response to influenza vaccine in elderly and the effect on respiratory symptoms related to respiratory infections. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted between November of 2015 and April of 2016. A total of 98 residents of nursing homes aged more than 65 years were randomly assigned to receive Lc K8 or placebo for two weeks previous to influenza vaccination. Primary outcome was the percentage of seroconversion. Secondary outcome were the incidence of influenza-like illness and respiratory symptoms associated to respiratory infections during the follow-up period of 5 months. Serum cytokines and immunoglobulins levels were also evaluated.
Local ablative treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma is performed primary on patients not eligible for liver transplant or liver resection. At our Hospital two different methods are used: Microwave ablation, where the tumor cells are heated up and killed, and Irreversible electroporation, where the tumor cells are exposed to an electrical field and nano-pores are formed in the cell membranes and the cells go into apoptosis (programed cell death). Previous studies have shown effects on the immune system after ablative therapies. The purpose of this study is to compare the immunological response after the wo different methods of killing the tumor cells.
This prospective observational cohort study will follow the roughly 100 adults who received the VSV-ZEBOV vaccine in the Geneva phase 1 randomized controlled trial in 2014-2015 in order to determine their long-term (5-year) immune response to vaccination.
This is an open-label, randomized trial in up to 210 adults aged 65-74 years to evaluate the immune response to consecutive influenza vaccination across 2 seasons. Participants will be randomized to receive 1 of 3 licensed and recommended vaccines in the first year; 2 arms will receive the same vaccination in the second year and the third arm will be randomized again to 1 of 3 licensed vaccines. All participants will have pre and post-vaccination serum blood draws for a total of 6 draws over 18 months.
There has been a dramatic escalation of electronic cigarette (e-cig) use among women of childbearing age, including pregnant women. The overall goal of this study is to determine the effects of e-cigs on prenatal biomarkers and birth outcomes. It is imperative that more data about these effects be available to better inform women of childbearing age.
Malnutrition is considered one of the most prevalent risk factors for morbidity and mortality in children under five. An estimated 20% of children in the developing world are malnourished [1] and poor nutrition is linked to more than half of all child deaths worldwide [2]. Malnutrition in early childhood may lead to cognitive and physical deficits and may cause similar deficits in future generations as malnourished mothers give birth to low birth weight children [3]. In addition, malnutrition increases susceptibility and incidence of infections and is associated with diminished response to vaccines. The MAL-ED Project is designed to determine the impact of enteric infections/diarrhea that alter gut function and impair children's nutrition, growth and development to help develop new intervention strategies that can break the vicious enteric infection-malnutrition cycle and reduce its global burden. The overall objective of the MAL-ED Project is to quantify the associations of specific enteric pathogens, measures of physical and mental development, micronutrient malnutrition, gut function biomarkers, the gut microbiome, and immune responses in very young children in resource-limited settings across eight sites that vary by culture, economics, geography, and climate. The central hypothesis of the MAL-ED Project is that infection (and co-infection) with specific enteropathogens leads to impaired growth and development and to diminished immune response to orally administered vaccines by causing intestinal inflammation and/or by altering intestinal barrier and absorptive function. Data analyses will test for associations between enteropathogen infections and growth/development to help illuminate: - which micro-organisms or mixed infections are most frequently associated with growth faltering and poor development; and - at what age specific infections cause the most disruption to growth and development and impair immune response.
Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an important health problem with significant morbidity, mortality and cost. The most identified pathogen in CAP is Streptococcus pneumoniae. This was also the causative agent most frequently found in the Ovidius and Triple-P study, two consecutive clinical trials initiated by the St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein. Diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia can be based on positive blood cultures, sputum cultures, urine antigen testing or a serotype specific antibody response. When pneumococcal pneumonia is diagnosed by a positive culture, a matching serotype specific antibody response is expected. However not all patients in the Ovidius and Triple-P study with a culture proven pneumococcal pneumonia showed an antibody response against the infecting pneumococcal serotype. Patients who survived pneumococcal pneumonia are considered as a high-risk population for pneumococcal disease in the future. Possibly these patients have an impaired immune response against S. pneumoniae. In this study, pneumococcal vaccination of patients with S. pneumoniae CAP in the past enables investigating their immune response after vaccination compared to patients with CAP due another causative agent. Furthermore this study provides information to determine if there is a difference in vaccination response between pneumococcal pneumonia patients who had a culture matching serotype specific antibody response and between pneumococcal pneumonia patients who failed to elicit this response previously. Possibly these latter patients had a temporarily low titre due to the infection but another explanation is that there might be a structurally impaired immune response against S. pneumoniae or certain serotypes.