Serum antibody response to Moraxella catarrhalis proteins in stringently defined otitis prone children.

CONCLUSIONS: sOP children is a highly vulnerable population that mount lower serum antibody responses to Mcat candidate vaccine proteins compared to NOP children during asymptomatic NP carriage and at onset of AOM.
PMID: 28755833 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Vaccine - July 26, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Ren D, Almudevar AL, Murphy TF, Lafontaine ER, Campagnari AA, Luke-Marshall N, Pichichero ME Tags: Vaccine Source Type: research