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  • Title: Proliferative responses to purified and fractionated Bordetella pertussis antigens in mice immunized with whole-cell pertussis vaccine.
    Author: Petersen JW, Andersen P, Ibsen PH, Capiau C, Wachmann CH, Hasløv K, Heron I.
    Journal: Vaccine; 1993; 11(4):463-72. PubMed ID: 8470432.
    Abstract:
    The specificity of the cell-mediated immune response to Bordetella pertussis following immunization of C57B1 mice with a whole-cell pertussis vaccine was assessed in a proliferation assay. A proliferative response of lymph node lymphocytes to the filamentous haemagglutinin, the 69 kDa outer membrane protein and the agglutinogens 2 and 3 was demonstrated. The proliferative cells were T cells of the CD4+ phenotype. In addition, several as yet uncharacterized antigens expressed by B. pertussis were shown to induce a proliferative response, also mediated by T cells of the CD4+ phenotype. Although a range of different immunization schedules and preparations of pertussis toxin were used, no specific proliferative responses to pertussis toxin, which is regarded as a protective antigen of major importance from B. pertussis, were found.
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