Accession Number:

AD0754508

Title:

Early Protection of Hamsters Immunized with Attenuated Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis Vaccine

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INST OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES FORT DETRICK MD

Personal Author(s):

• Cole, Jr., Francis E.
• Pedersen, Jr., Carl E.
• Robinson, David M.

Report Date:

1972-06-23

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

The rapid onset and persistence of homologous and heterologous protection induced by attenuated Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis VEE vaccine TC-83 were studied in the hamster, by using challenge response as the index of protection. At 8 hr postvaccination with 1,000 median immunizing doses of TC-83 vaccine, 15 to 20 of animals were protected against challenge with VEE virus as well as Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses. The percentage of protection increased with time postvaccination until 80 to 90 homologous and heterologous protection was achieved by 18 hr postvaccination. Temporal studies indicated that early protection days 1 to 6 correlated with vaccine viremia, and that the percentage of protection against heterologous challenge decreased with the cessation of viremia. Data are presented to indicate that the early protection phenomenon is one of interference, since little or no replication of a challenge virus occurred when it was administered during the vaccine viremia stage.

Descriptors:

• *VACCINES
• *VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS
• REPRINTS
• EXPERIMENTAL DATA
• VIRUS DISEASES
• GROUP A ARBOVIRUSES
• IMMUNITY
• HAMSTERS

Subject Categories:

• Microbiology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE