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US 2003/0206907 A1Published application
Methods of enhancing activity of vaccines and vaccine compositions
AssigneeMedImmune, LLC
InventorScott Koenig
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods for vaccine priming, using co-treatment, at a temporally similar or at a previous time, with a priming antibody capable of priming, or enhancing, or potentiating the effects of a vaccine, or vaccine composition. Also disclosed are methods of using this process to prevent or treat disease.
Claims25
A process for priming the immunogenic activity of a vaccine, or vaccine composition, comprising:
- (a) administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of an antibody specific for one or more of the antigenic determinants characteristic of said vaccine, or vaccine composition;
- (b) administering to said animal an effective amount of the vaccine, or vaccine composition, of step (a).
The process of claim 23 wherein said animal is a human being.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.