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Pneumococcal vaccine developmentJan T Poolman
R and D Bacterial Vaccine Programme, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rue de l Institut, 89 1330 Rixensart, Belgium
Expert Rev Vaccines 3:597-604. 2004..The burden of adult nonbacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia has remained high and efforts to develop improved adult pneumococcal vaccines have been initiated that include conjugates and pneumococcal proteins...
Pneumococcal serotype 3 otitis media, limited effect of polysaccharide conjugate immunisation and strain characteristicsJan Poolman
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium
Vaccine 27:3213-22. 2009..In contrast to the other vaccine serotypes, no protection could be demonstrated in the POET study against serotype 3 acute otitis media (AOM) following primary and booster vaccination with a multi-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine...
Measurement of functional anti-meningococcal serogroup a activity using strain 3125 as the target strain for serum bactericidal assayJan T Poolman
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart 1330, Belgium
Clin Vaccine Immunol 18:1108-17. 2011..In conclusion, SBA results obtained using the MenA L10 3125 strain better reflected vaccine-induced immunity...
Hyporesponsiveness and its clinical implications after vaccination with polysaccharide or glycoconjugate vaccinesJan Poolman
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rue de l Institut 89, 1330 Rixensart, Belgium
Expert Rev Vaccines 10:307-22. 2011..These data have implications for the development of new multivalent vaccines...
Acellular pertussis vaccines and the role of pertactin and fimbriaeJan T Poolman
Head of Bacterial Vaccines, R and D Bacterial Vaccine Program, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium
Expert Rev Vaccines 6:47-56. 2007..The available data, therefore, demonstrate that appropriately formulated acellular vaccines containing PT and PRN are the preferred option for pertussis immunization...
Impact of the conjugation method on the immunogenicity of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19F polysaccharide in conjugate vaccinesJan Poolman
Research and Development, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rue de l Institut 89, B 1330 Rixensart, Belgium
Clin Vaccine Immunol 18:327-36. 2011..In conclusion, these results suggest that the conjugation method can influence the functionality of the antibodies induced against the homologous serotype 19F and the cross-reactive serotype 19A of S. pneumoniae...
Evaluation of pneumococcal polysaccharide immunoassays using a 22F adsorption step with serum samples from infants vaccinated with conjugate vaccinesJan T Poolman
Research and Development, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rue de l Institut 89, Rixensart B 1330, Belgium
Clin Vaccine Immunol 17:134-42. 2010..In conclusion, we confirm that the 22F ELISA can be recommended as a reference method for the determination of antibodies against pneumococcal polysaccharides...
Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B lipooligosaccharide genotyping reveals high prevalence of L2 strains in Spain and unexpected relationship with factor H-binding protein expressionNathalie Devos
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rue de l Institut 89, 1330 Rixensart, Belgium
Microbes Infect 14:979-88. 2012..Our findings suggest that, in addition to a genetic analysis, a multivalent approach may be necessary to estimate the effectiveness of a N. meningitidis serogroup B vaccine...
A protein-based pneumococcal vaccine protects rhesus macaques from pneumonia after experimental infection with Streptococcus pneumoniaePhilippe DeNoel
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium
Vaccine 29:5495-501. 2011..In conclusion, AS02-adjuvanted PhtD-dPly vaccine protects against S. pneumoniae-induced pneumonia. It is probable that the protection is at least partially mediated by PhtD- and Ply-specific antibodies...
Quality of the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) antibody response induced by diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis/Hib combination vaccinesPhilippe A Denoel
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rue de l Institut 89, 1330 Rixensart, Belgium
Clin Vaccine Immunol 14:1362-9. 2007..In conclusion, in vitro and in vivo data as well as postmarketing vaccine effectiveness data attest to the ability of DTPa-based/Hib combination vaccines to effectively prevent Hib-induced disease in children...
Preclinical evaluation of the Pht proteins as potential cross-protective pneumococcal vaccine antigensFabrice Godfroid
Research and Development, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rue de l Institut 89, B 1330 Rixensart, Belgium
Infect Immun 79:238-45. 2011..Our findings, together with the serotype-independent occurrence of the Phts, designate this protein family as valid candidate antigens to be incorporated in protein-based pneumococcal vaccines...
Transcriptional regulation, occurrence and putative role of the Pht family of Streptococcus pneumoniaeStéphane Rioux
GSK Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium
Microbiology 157:336-48. 2011..The data also showed that this protein family, and more particularly PhtD, is a promising candidate to be incorporated into pneumococcal vaccines...
Genetically modified L3,7 and L2 lipooligosaccharides from Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B confer a broad cross-bactericidal responseV Weynants
Research and Development, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rue de l Institut 89, B 1330 Rixensart, Belgium
Infect Immun 77:2084-93. 2009..In conclusion, a bivalent detoxified LOS OMV-based vaccine demonstrated the potential to afford a broad cross-protection against meningococcal disease...
Meningococcal surface fibril (Msf) binds to activated vitronectin and inhibits the terminal complement pathway to increase serum resistanceNatalie J Griffiths
Schools of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK
Mol Microbiol 82:1129-49. 2011..The data imply that vitronectin binding may be an important strategy for the in vivo survival of Nm for which the bacterium has evolved redundant mechanisms...
Additive and synergistic bactericidal activity of antibodies directed against minor outer membrane proteins of Neisseria meningitidisVincent E Weynants
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rue de l Institut 89, B 1330 Rixensart, Belgium
Infect Immun 75:5434-42. 2007..With minor OMPs, this threshold is reached when more than one antigen is targeted, and this allows cross-protection...
Preparation of polysaccharide-conjugate vaccinesCarla C A M Peeters
Laboratory for Vaccine Development and Immune Mechanisms, National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Methods Mol Med 87:153-74. 2003
Passive immunization with human anti-protein D antibodies induced by polysaccharide protein D conjugates protects chinchillas against otitis media after intranasal challenge with Haemophilus influenzaeLaura A Novotny
Columbus Children's Research Institute, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, 700 Children's Drive, W591, 43205, USA
Vaccine 24:4804-11. 2006..6% was shown against acute OM episodes caused by NTHI. These observations strongly support the chinchilla passive transfer-superinfection model as one that could predict clinical trials outcomes for vaccines to prevent NTHI-induced OM...
Vaccine potential of the Neisseria meningitidis lactoferrin-binding proteins LbpA and LbpBAnnika Pettersson
Department of Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Vaccine 24:3545-57. 2006..Our results show that both proteins are immunogenic and able to induce bactericidal antibodies, but that the cross-reactivity of these antibodies is limited...
Combination vaccines containing DTPa-Hib: impact of IPV and coadministration of CRM197 conjugatesRon Dagan
Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, PO Box 151, Beer Sheva 84101, Israel
Expert Rev Vaccines 7:97-115. 2008..These observations underline the need to carefully evaluate upcoming pediatric conjugate vaccines for possible interference effects on the coadministered antigens, with particular attention to hepatitis B and Hib-tetanus toxoid...
