When the researchers injected mice with antibodies from
vaccinated people in the study, the animals were protected against subsequent exposure to Zika virus, unlike mice that were injected with antibodies from participants who received placebo.
Not exact matches
«Vaccination is the single most important thing to do to prevent communicative diseases, and not nearly enough
people get
vaccinated,» says Gretchen Chapman, a lead author of the
study and a professor of psychology
in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.
Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute
in Oxford, UK, who was not involved
in the
studies published
in July or
in Patterson's work, also criticised the failure of the researchers to analyse data from
vaccinated people.
Limitations of the
study are that it was not known how many
people in the states surveyed had been
vaccinated nor how many of the hospital patients had been treated with dexamethasone.
The
study published today goes a stage further, showing that the
people who were
vaccinated yet still contracted HIV had been infected by viruses that had mutations
in the the V2 portion.
Another
study, led by researchers at NIAID, to be presented at the vaccine conference this week analysed the molecular structure of antibodies from the blood of
vaccinated people and found that some of their antibodies recognized the same amino acids
in the V2 region.
The
study charts two years of antibody levels for the
people vaccinated in Geneva and one year each
in Gabon and Kenya.
«Overall, these
studies consistently found that
people need to see flu as real and serious health threat — either through personal experience or communication messages and materials —
in order to get
vaccinated,» Nowak said.
This
study looks at variation
in one immunological message, and finds that
people with the uncommon version of the gene will make more antibodies after being
vaccinated.