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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2016

Role of vaccination-induced immunity and antigenic distance in the transmission dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1.

Ioannis Sitaras, Xanthoula Rousou, Donata Kalthoff, Martin Beer, Ben Peeters, Mart C M de Jong

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ioannis SitarasQuantitative Veterinary Epidemiology, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, Radix Building 107, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands Department of Virology, Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Houtribweg 39, Lelystad 8221 RA, The Netherlands ioannis.sitaras@wur.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0161-8024
Xanthoula RousouQuantitative Veterinary Epidemiology, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, Radix Building 107, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.
Donata KalthoffInstitute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Löffler Institut, Südufer 10, Greifswald-Insel Riems 17493, Germany.
Martin BeerInstitute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Löffler Institut, Südufer 10, Greifswald-Insel Riems 17493, Germany.
Ben PeetersDepartment of Virology, Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Houtribweg 39, Lelystad 8221 RA, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3575-0680
Mart C M de JongQuantitative Veterinary Epidemiology, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, Radix Building 107, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands mart.dejong@wur.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5339-1995
Wageningen University & Research · NLFriedrich-Loeffler-Institut · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 epidemics in poultry cause huge economic losses as well as sporadic human morbidity and mortality. Vaccination in poultry has often been reported as being ineffective in preventing transmission and as a potential driving force in the selection of immune escape mutants. We conducted transmission experiments to evaluate the transmission dynamics of HPAI H5N1 strains in chickens vaccinated with high and low doses of immune escape mutants we have previously selected, and analysed the data using mathematical models. Remarkably, we demonstrate that the effect of antigenic distances between the vaccine and challenge strains used in this study is too small to influence the transmission dynamics of the strains used. This is because the effect of a sufficient vaccine dose on antibody levels against the challenge viruses is large enough to compensate for any decrease in antibody titres due to antigenic differences between vaccine and challenge strains. Our results show that at least under experimental conditions, vaccination will remain effective even after antigenic changes as may be caused by the initial selection in vaccinated birds.

Indexed as

ChickensInfluenza in BirdsPoultry DiseasesVaccinationAnimalsAntigens, ViralHumansInfluenza A Virus, H5N1 SubtypeAntigens, Viralantigenic distanceH5N1highly pathogenic avian influenzatransmissionvaccine dose

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PMID26763336
PMCPMC4759802
OpenAlexW2235956096

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