scholarly journals Influenza Virus and Vaccination

Pathogens ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Aitor Nogales ◽  
Marta L. DeDiego
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Respiratory Disease ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
Substantial Morbidity

Influenza virus infections represent a serious public health problem causing contagious respiratory disease and substantial morbidity and mortality in humans, resulting in a considerable economic burden worldwide. Notably, the number of deaths due to influenza exceeds that of any other known pathogen. Moreover, influenza infections can differ in their intensity, from mild respiratory disease to pneumonia, which can lead to death. Articles in this Special Issue have addressed different aspects of influenza in human health, and the advances in influenza research leading to the development of better therapeutics and vaccination strategies, with a special focus on the study of factors associated with innate or adaptive immune responses to influenza vaccination and/or infection.

scholarly journals Next generation methodology for updating HA vaccines against emerging human seasonal influenza A(H3N2) viruses

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Allen ◽  
Ted M. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Influenza A ◽  
Seasonal Influenza ◽  
Influenza Viruses ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Influenza Hemagglutinin ◽  
H3n2 Influenza

AbstractWhile vaccines remain the best tool for preventing influenza virus infections, they have demonstrated low to moderate effectiveness in recent years. Seasonal influenza vaccines typically consist of wild-type influenza A and B viruses that are limited in their ability to elicit protective immune responses against co-circulating influenza virus variant strains. Improved influenza virus vaccines need to elicit protective immune responses against multiple influenza virus drift variants within each season. Broadly reactive vaccine candidates potentially provide a solution to this problem, but their efficacy may begin to wane as influenza viruses naturally mutate through processes that mediates drift. Thus, it is necessary to develop a method that commercial vaccine manufacturers can use to update broadly reactive vaccine antigens to better protect against future and currently circulating viral variants. Building upon the COBRA technology, nine next-generation H3N2 influenza hemagglutinin (HA) vaccines were designed using a next generation algorithm and design methodology. These next-generation broadly reactive COBRA H3 HA vaccines were superior to wild-type HA vaccines at eliciting antibodies with high HAI activity against a panel of historical and co-circulating H3N2 influenza viruses isolated over the last 15 years, as well as the ability to neutralize future emerging H3N2 isolates.

scholarly journals Dendritic Cells in Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses against Influenza Virus

Viruses ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1022-1034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Summerfield ◽  
Kenneth McCullough
Keyword(s):  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Adaptive Immune Responses ◽  
Adaptive Immune

scholarly journals Historical H1N1 Influenza Virus Imprinting Increases Vaccine Protection by Influencing the Activity and Sustained Production of Antibodies Elicited at Vaccination in Ferrets

Vaccines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magen E. Francis ◽  
Mara McNeil ◽  
Nicholas J. Dawe ◽  
Mary K. Foley ◽  
Morgan L. King ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Recovery Period ◽  
Haemagglutination Inhibition ◽  
H1n1 Influenza ◽  
Influenza Viruses ◽  
Immune Memory ◽  
Sublethal Dose ◽  
Virus Infections

Influenza virus imprinting is now understood to significantly influence the immune responses and clinical outcome of influenza virus infections that occur later in life. Due to the yearly cycling of influenza viruses, humans are imprinted with the circulating virus of their birth year and subsequently build a complex influenza virus immune history. Despite this knowledge, little is known about how the imprinting strain influences vaccine responses. To investigate the immune responses of the imprinted host to split-virion vaccination, we imprinted ferrets with a sublethal dose of the historical seasonal H1N1 strain A/USSR/90/1977. After a +60-day recovery period to build immune memory, ferrets were immunized and then challenged on Day 123. Antibody specificity and recall were investigated throughout the time course. At challenge, the imprinted vaccinated ferrets did not experience significant disease, while naïve-vaccinated ferrets had significant weight loss. Haemagglutination inhibition assays showed that imprinted ferrets had a more robust antibody response post vaccination and increased virus neutralization activity. Imprinted-vaccinated animals had increased virus-specific IgG antibodies compared to the other experimental groups, suggesting B-cell maturity and plasticity at vaccination. These results should be considered when designing the next generation of influenza vaccines.

scholarly journals Obesity and the increased risk for COVID-19: mechanisms and nutritional management

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Ana Heloneida de Araújo Morais ◽  
Thais Sousa Passos ◽  
Sancha Helena de Lima Vale ◽  
Juliana Kelly da Silva Maia ◽  
Bruna Leal Lima Maciel
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Nutritional Strategies ◽  
Worse Prognosis

Abstract The global COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic has become a complex problem that overlaps with a growing public health problem, obesity. Obesity alters different components of the innate and adaptive immune responses, creating a chronic and low-grade state of inflammation. Nutritional status is closely related to a better or worse prognosis of viral infections. Excess weight has been recognised as a risk factor for COVID-19 complications. In addition to the direct risk, obesity triggers other diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, increasing the risk of severe COVID-19. The present review explains the diets that induce obesity and the importance of different foods in this process. We also review tissue disruption in obesity, leading to impaired immune responses and the possible mechanisms by which obesity and its co-morbidities increase COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Nutritional strategies that support the immune system in patients with obesity and with COVID-19 are also discussed in light of the available data, considering the severity of the infection. The discussions held may contribute to combating this global emergency and planning specific public health policy.

scholarly journals Pneumococcal colonization impairs nasal and lung mucosal immune responses to Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccination in adults

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz F. Carniel ◽  
Fernando Marcon ◽  
Jamie Rylance ◽  
Seher Zaidi ◽  
Jesus Reine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Cellular Responses ◽  
Antibody Responses ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
Mucosal Antibody ◽  
Pneumococcal Colonization ◽  
Differential Immunity ◽  
Nasal Microbiota

ABSTRACTInfluenza virus infections affect millions of people annually. Current available vaccines provide varying rates of protection. There is a knowledge gap on how the nasal microbiota, particularly established pneumococcal colonization, shapes the response to influenza vaccination. In this study, we inoculated healthy adults with live S. pneumoniae and vaccinated them three days later with either TIV or LAIV. Vaccine-induced immune responses were assessed in nose, blood and lung. Nasal pneumococcal colonization had no impact upon TIV-induced antibody responses to influenza, which manifested in all compartments. However, pre-existing pneumococcal colonization dampened LAIV-mediated mucosal antibody responses, primarily IgA in the nose and IgG in the lung. Pulmonary influenza-specific cellular responses were more apparent in the LAIV group compared to either TIV or an unvaccinated group. These results indicate that TIV and LAIV elicit differential immunity to adults and that LAIV immunogenicity is diminished by the nasal presence of S. pneumoniae. This important confounder should be considered when assessing LAIV efficacy.

scholarly journals Lymphopenia Caused by Virus Infections and the Mechanisms Beyond

Viruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1876
Author(s):  
Zijing Guo ◽  
Zhidong Zhang ◽  
Meera Prajapati ◽  
Yanmin Li
Keyword(s):  
Immune Responses ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Clinical Course ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
Adaptive Immune Responses ◽  
Therapeutic Targeting ◽  
Adaptive Immune

Viral infections can give rise to a systemic decrease in the total number of lymphocytes in the blood, referred to as lymphopenia. Lymphopenia may affect the host adaptive immune responses and impact the clinical course of acute viral infections. Detailed knowledge on how viruses induce lymphopenia would provide valuable information into the pathogenesis of viral infections and potential therapeutic targeting. In this review, the current progress of viruses-induced lymphopenia is summarized and the potential mechanisms and factors involved are discussed.

scholarly journals Enteric immunity, the gut microbiome, and sepsis: Rethinking the germ theory of disease

2016 ◽  
Vol 242 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Cabrera-Perez ◽  
Vladimir P Badovinac ◽  
Thomas S Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Immune Responses ◽  
Systemic Inflammation ◽  
Gut Microbiome ◽  
Intestinal Flora ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Microbial Populations ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
Gut Epithelium ◽  
The Impact

Sepsis is a poorly understood syndrome of systemic inflammation responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. The integrity of the gut epithelium and competence of adaptive immune responses are notoriously compromised during sepsis, and the prevalent assumption in the scientific and medical community is that intestinal commensals have a detrimental role in the systemic inflammation and susceptibility to nosocomial infections seen in critically ill, septic patients. However, breakthroughs in the last decade provide strong credence to the idea that our mucosal microbiome plays an essential role in adaptive immunity, where a human host and its prokaryotic colonists seem to exist in a carefully negotiated armistice with compromises and benefits that go both ways. In this review, we re-examine the notion that intestinal contents are the driving force of critical illness. An overview of the interaction between the microbiome and the immune system is provided, with a special focus on the impact of commensals in priming and the careful balance between normal intestinal flora and pathogenic organisms residing in the gut microbiome. Based on the data in hand, we hypothesize that sepsis induces imbalances in microbial populations residing in the gut, along with compromises in epithelial integrity. As a result, normal antigen sampling becomes impaired, and proliferative cues are intermixed with inhibitory signals. This situates the microbiome, the gut, and its complex immune network of cells and bacteria, at the center of aberrant immune responses during and after sepsis.

scholarly journals Generation of Adaptive Immune Responses Following Influenza Virus Challenge is Not Compromised by Pre-Treatment with the TLR-2 Agonist Pam2Cys

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edin Jessica Mifsud ◽  
Amabel C. L. Tan ◽  
Lorena Elizabeth Brown ◽  
Brendon Yew Loong Chua ◽  
David C. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Adaptive Immune Responses ◽  
Virus Challenge ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
Pre Treatment
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