Imperial College London

ProfessorNicholasGrassly

Faculty of MedicineSchool of Public Health

Prof of Infectious Disease & Vaccine Epidemiology
 
 
 
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1102Sir Michael Uren HubWhite City Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Grassly:2020:10.1038/s41541-020-0178-5,
author = {Grassly, N},
doi = {10.1038/s41541-020-0178-5},
journal = {npj Vaccines},
pages = {1--8},
title = {Immune predictors of oral poliovirus vaccine immunogenicity among infants in south India},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41541-020-0178-5},
volume = {5},
year = {2020}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - Identification of the causes of poor oral vaccine immunogenicity in low-income countries might lead to more effective vaccines. We measured mucosal and systemic immune parameters at the time of vaccination with oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) in 292 Indian infants aged 6–11 months, including plasma cytokines, leukocyte counts, fecal biomarkers of environmental enteropathy and peripheral blood T-cell phenotype, focused on gut-homing regulatory CD4+ populations. We did not find a distinct immune phenotype associated with OPV immunogenicity, although viral pathogens were more prevalent in stool at the time of immunization among infants who failed to seroconvert (63.9% vs. 45.6%, p = 0.002). Using a machine-learning approach, we could predict seroconversion a priori using immune parameters and infection status with a median 58% accuracy (cross-validation IQR: 50–69%) compared with 50% expected by chance. Better identification of immune predictors of OPV immunogenicity is likely to require sampling of mucosal tissue and improved oral poliovirus infection models.
AU - Grassly,N
DO - 10.1038/s41541-020-0178-5
EP - 8
PY - 2020///
SN - 2059-0105
SP - 1
TI - Immune predictors of oral poliovirus vaccine immunogenicity among infants in south India
T2 - npj Vaccines
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41541-020-0178-5
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-020-0178-5
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/78444
VL - 5
ER -