ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2024
Current challenges and improvements in assessing the immunogenicity of bacterial vaccines.
Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Gram-Negative Bacterial Overgrowth Predominated by: Potential Association with Intestinal Barrier Impairment and Inflammatory Diarrhea in Cats.Veterinary sciences · 2026Article
- Systemic and mucosal immunity to enterotoxigenicFrontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Evaluation of the Multivalent Immunoprotective Effects of Protein, DNA, and IgY Vaccines AgainstInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Immunogenicity and protective efficacy of seven candidate vaccines boosted with recombinant proteins, whole-cell bacterins of three serotypes ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Construction and evaluation of aFrontiers in immunology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The increase in antimicrobial-resistant bacterial strains has highlighted the need for a new vaccine strategy. The primary goal of a candidate vaccine is to prevent disease, by inducing a persistent immunologic memory, through the activation of pathogen-specific immune response. Antibody titer is the main parameter used to assess the immunogenicity of bacterial vaccine candidates and it is the most widely used as a correlate of protection. On the other hand, the antibody titer alone cannot provide complete information on all the activity mediated by antibodies which can only be assessed by functional assays, like the serum bactericidal assay and the opsonophagocytosis assay. However, due to the involvement of many biological factors, these assays are difficult to standardize. Some improvements have been achieved in recent years, but further optimizations are needed to minimize inter- and intra-laboratories variability and to allow the applicability of these functional assays for the vaccine immunogenicity assessment on a larger scale.
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