Primary and secondary immunization with different physio-chemical forms of antigen
AssigneeConnaught Laboratories Limited
InventorsRobert S. Becker, Laura Ferguson, Lorne Erdile, Maurice W. Harmon, Robert Huebner
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Abstract
Animals, including humans, are immunized by antigens, for example, the HA antigen of influenza, by first administering to a naive animal a normally strongly-immunogenic form of the antigen, for example, inactivated or attenuated whole cell virus and subsequently administering a normally weakly-immunogenic isolated and purified viral antigen, to achieve an enhanced immune response to the purified viral antigen.
Claims2
A method of achieving an enhanced immune response in an animal to an antigen which is weakly immunogenic when administered to a naive animal, which comprises:
- administering to said animal a highly immunogenic form of said antigen to achieve a primary immune response to the antigen relative to an immune response achieved when the weakly immunogenic antigen is administered without a subsequent booster immunization, and
- subsequently administering to said animal said weakly immunogenic antigen, to achieve a booster immune response to the antigen;
- wherein said antigen is produced synthetically.
A method of achieving an enhanced immune response in an animal to an antigen which is weakly immunogenic when administered to a naive animal, which comprises:
- administering to said animal a highly-immunogenic form of said antigen to achieve a primary immune response to the antigen relative to an immune response achieved when the weakly immunogenic antigen is administered without a subsequent booster immunization, and
- subsequently administering to said animal said weakly immunogenic antigen, to achieve a booster immune response to the antigen;
- where said antigen is OspA-NL from B. burgdorferi.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.