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9/28/2017 1 Update on Vaccines Patsy Jarreau Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, LA Introduction Transmission of infectious disease History of vaccination Vaccine preventable diseases Research for new vaccines Transmission of Infection Factors related to emerging infectious diseases Interrupting transmission of infectious diseases Hygiene Sanitation Environmental modification Vector control Vaccines How does the immune system work? Person is infected Symptoms arise Antigens from invading organism stimulate immune response Cytokines and antibodies are produced Leads to eventual destruction of the organism Memory cells are also produced

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Update on Vaccines

Patsy JarreauDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Sciences

LSU Health Sciences Center

New Orleans, LA

Introduction

•Transmission of infectious disease

•History of vaccination•Vaccine preventable diseases•Research for new vaccines

Transmission of InfectionFactors related to emerging 

infectious diseases

Interrupting transmissionof infectious diseases

•Hygiene•Sanitation•Environmental modification

•Vector control•Vaccines

How does the immune system work?

• Person is infected• Symptoms arise

• Antigens from invading organism stimulate immune response

• Cytokines and antibodies are produced

• Leads to eventual destruction of the organism

• Memory cells are also produced

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Secondary immune response

• Basis of immunization

• Initial encounter with antigen, immune response evoked

• Memory cells circulate for years

• Upon re‐encounter of invading organism, very quick immune response is generated

• Organism is inactivated and symptoms are prevented

Definition of vaccine

• Agent that resembles a pathogenic microorganism and stimulates the immune system to recognize, destroy, and remember that organism

•May be composed of parts of the organism, weakened or killed forms of the organism, or altered toxins of the microbe

Vaccination in Prevention of Disease

•Herd immunity

• Enough vaccinated individuals and disease does not spread

• Low number of susceptible individuals

• Protects those who cannot be immunized

• Allergic• Immunocompromised

• Unable to make antibodies to vaccine

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How to make a vaccine

• Goal• To induce immune response but not to cause disease

• How to accomplish

• Antigen must be altered

or

• Similar antigen that does not cause disease

Discovery of Vaccines

•Noticed that people who recovered from disease rather than dying from it did not get the disease again

• Chinese attempted to prevent smallpox in 10th century

• Prime minister’s eldest son died of smallpox

• Sought remedy to prevent same from happening to other family members

Variolation

• Exposing people to matter from smallpox lesions

• Removing pus & fluid from lesion & placing under skin of uninfected person

• Drying & grinding scabs into powder for uninfected person to inhale

• Injecting scab powder into vein of uninfected person

• Was not widely practiced until 1500s

Spread of Vaccination for Smallpox

•Practice spread to Turkey in 1600s•Lady Montagu (wife of British ambassador to Turkey) allowed her family to be variolated in 1718

• Practice spread to Europe by 1721

Effects of Variolation

•Mild illness in most individuals

•Death in a few•Mortality and morbidity rates much lower in variolated populations

Edward Jenner

•Was variolated as a small boy

•Became country doctor

•Noticed that on farms where horses with an equine disease similar to smallpox  that there were cows with blisters similar to those in smallpox (cowpox) but cows did not die

• Blisters healed leaving small scar

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Jenner• Milkmaid told him that she had cowpox and could not contract smallpox

• 1796 –Conducted experiment

Infected young boy with cowpox

Then intentionally infected boy with smallpox○ Injected pus from lesion under boy’s skin

○Boy did not contract smallpox

• Lead to the production of vaccines for many infectious diseases

• Responsible for marked decrease in deadly diseases

Named “Vaccination”

• “vacca” – Latin for cow• Smallpox has now been eradicated

• Virus is found only in 2 places in the world

• CDC

• Institute of Viral Preparations in Moscow

History of Vaccines

First Vaccine for:1796 small pox1879 cholera1885 rabies1890 tetanus1896 typhoid fever1897 bubonic plague1921 diphtheria1926 pertussis (whooping cough)1927 tuberculosis

and more . . .

History of Vaccines

• First Vaccine for:

• 1932 yellow fever

• 1937 typhus

• 1945 influenza

• 1952  polio

• 1954 Japanese encephalitis

• 1954 anthrax

• 1957 adenovirus 4 and 7

• 1962 oral polio vaccine

History of VaccinesFirst Vaccine for:

1963measles

1967 mumps

1970 rubella

1974 chicken pox

1977 pneumonia (Streptococcus pneumoniae)

1978 meningitis

1981 hepatitis B

1985Haemophilus influenzae type b (HiB)

1992hepatitis A

1998Lyme disease

1998rotavirus

Types of vaccines

•Attenuated vaccines•Killed vaccines•Acellular vaccines•Toxoids•Subunit vaccines

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Attenuated vaccine

• Often referred to as live, attenuated vaccine

• Live microbe that has been altered or weakened so that it can enhance immunity but not cause disease

• Very effective in producing immunity

• Example:  Sabin vaccine for polio (oral vaccine)

Live, attenuated (weakened) vaccines

• Usually the most effective vaccines

• Organism is multiplying

• Therefore, large immune response

• Usually results in lifelong immunity

• Boosters usually not necessary

• Disadvantage• May mutate and cause disease

• Not recommended in immunocompromised patients

Methods used to attenuate microbe

•Aging•Changing its growth conditions

Killed Vaccines

• Prepared from dead but antigenically active microorganisms

• Organism killed with formalin

• Used when microorganism is too virulent to attenuate

• Immune system responds in same manner as it does to the live microorganism but not as effective as live, attenuated vaccine

• Examples

• Salk polio vaccine (parenteral vaccine)

• Typhoid vaccine

Acellular vaccines

• Uses one part of the organism• Capsule• Flagella• Cell wall

• Do not produce strongest immune responses

• May require booster(s)

• Safe for immunocompromised patients

Recombinant (subunit) vaccines

• Isolate gene from organism that codes for subunit

•Use bacteria or yeast to produce large quantities of subunit molecules

•Cannot cause disease•Used in immunocompromised patients

• Example

• Hepatitis B vaccine

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Toxoids

•Made from toxin produced by microbe

• Toxin is chemically treated with aluminum or other agent to decrease harmful effects

•Adjuvant usually added to enhance immune response

•Boosters required every 10 years• Examples

• Diphtheria• Tetanus

Exposure to similar organism

•Using an organism similar to the one that causes serious disease

• Coxpox for smallpox

• BCG for tuberculosis (attenuated Mycobacterium bovis to protect from Mycobacterium tuberculosis)

Conjugate vaccine

•A poor antigen (polysaccharide) is attached to a carrier protein

• Increases antigenicity• Induces stronger immune response

•Requires boosters• Examples

• H. influenzae vaccine• N. meningitidis vaccine

• S. pneumoniae vaccine

Delivery of vaccines

•Parenteral•Needle

•Needleless – Jet Injected

•Oral

• Inhaled

HPV

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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) 

• Most common sexually transmitted disease

• 14 million new infections per year

• 9 of 10 people infected sometime in their lives

• Associated with cervical, vaginal, anal, penile, throat cancers and genital warts

• 120 genotypes• 30 genotypes affecting ½ of sexually active individuals

• 12 cause cervical cancer

Transmission

• Intimate skin to skin contact

• Vaginal, anal, or oral sex• Can be transmitted by someone who has no signs or symptoms

Symptoms

•Most are asymptomatic

•Papilloma (genital warts) may occur

•Usually resolves on its own and does not cause health problems

•Persistent infections can lead to cancer

HPV vaccine

• Gardisil:  protects against 4 genotypes

• Gardisil‐9:  protects against 9 genotypes

• Cervarix:  protects against 2 other genotypes

• Recommended for preteen boys and girls aged 10‐12 years

• Higher immune response in preteens than older adolescents

• 2 injections 6 months apart 

• Older adolescents require 3 injections

HPV Vaccination –Adolescent Females (2016) > 1 dose

HPV Vaccination –Adolescent Males (2016) > 1 dose

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HPV16/18 vaccine doses(Study Sept 2017)

• Fewer does may provide protection

•Women studied

• 2043 – 3 doses• 79 – 2 doses 6 months apart

• 193 – 2 doses 1 month apart

• 134 – 1 dose• 2382 – unvaccinated controls

HPV16/18 vaccine doses(Study Sept 2017)

•All vaccinated women still seropositive at year 7 regardless of # of doses

•Antibody levels constant between years 4 and 7

•Prevalence of HPV 31/33/45 lower in all vaccine groups

Reasons for low vaccination rates

• Safety of vaccine• No serious safety concerns linked to vaccine

•Mandated HPV vaccination for school‐aged girls?

• Parents argue it should be individual choice• Thought to promote early initiation of sexual activity & increase promiscuity

Case Study

Case Study ‐Colin

October – Healthy newborn – 7 lbs

Early December

Parents detected something definitely wrong

Took to pediatrician

Referred to emergency room

Diagnosed with stomach virus and discharged

2 nights later

Severe vomiting

Returned to hospital

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Case Study ‐Colin

• Hospitalization• Numerous respiratory tests

• CSF tests

• Chest x‐rays

• Admitted for pneumonia

• Over next 24 hours

• Breathing more and more labored

• Gagging cough

What is the diagnosis?

Case Study ‐Colin

• Transferred to Children’s Hospital• Put on life support• 2nd day – diagnosed with pertussis

•Died at 7 weeks of age

• Probably contracted disease from older unimmunized child

Whooping cough (pertussis)

•Caused by Bordetella pertussis•Prior to 1940 hundreds of thousands of children infected annually

•Thousands of infants died•Dramatically reduced infection rate after vaccination introduced

Danger level of infection

• Infection rate• 90% within the household

• 10% death rate in infants

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Pertussis remains endemic in U.S.

•Reasons:• Less reactogenic acellular vaccine• Modest efficacy (70‐90%)

• Increase in vaccine refusals• Increasing pool of susceptible adults• Immunity waned over time

Concerns about pertussis vaccine

Published study suggesting neurological complications (1974)Vaccination rate decreases○UK – from 70% to 30% 

○Japan & Sweden – lifted mandates

○Widespread epidemics occurred

Results refuted by several well‐designed studies Show no evidence of association between 

whole‐cell DPT vaccine and encephalopathy

Whooping cough

• Immunization wanes after 10 years

•Adolescents and adults up to age 64 should be immunized with one time dose of Tdap

•Herd immunity does not seem to protect children from pertussis

•Vaccine is acellular.  Unlike live vaccines, multiple boosters

Pertussis

•Severe respiratory infection• Called the hundred day cough•Highly communicable

• 80%‐90% infection rates within household

Early Symptoms

•Lasts 1‐2 weeks

•Similar to common cold

• Runny nose• Low‐grade fever• Mild cough

• Apnea•Often goes undiagnosed

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Later stage symptoms

• Fits of violent and rapid coughs followed by high‐pitched “whoop” sound

• Vomiting during or after coughing

• Exhaustion after coughing fit• Coughing occurs more often and severe as disease worsens

•May last 10 weeks or more

Pertussis

•Caused by Bordetella pertussis•Gram negative coccobacillus• Attaches to cilia that line part of upper respiratory system

• Releases toxins that damage epithelium of lungs and causes lymphocytosis and swelling of airways

Pertussis in infants

• 10% mortality rate• 50% require hospitalization• Most deaths occur in unimmunized 

children or children too young to be immunized

• Infant usually contracts disease from family member

• Important that teens and adults receive booster immunization (Tdap)

Incidence of Disease

• WHO estimates 200,000 – 400,000 deaths/year from pertussis

• Average of 7,000 – 9,000 cases/year in U.S.• Epidemics occur every 3‐5 years• In 2005, U.S. had 25,616 reported cases• Increase thought to be due to waning antibody 

levels in adults

• Only vaccine preventable disease on the rise• Infant cases tripled in last 2 decades

Complications – Babies & Children

•50% under 1 y.o. require hospitalization•1.1% ‐ convulsions•61% ‐ apnea•0.3% ‐ encephalopathy•1% ‐ death

Complications – teens and adults

•Less serious due to vaccination•Fainting – 6%•Rib fracture during coughing – 4%•Pneumonia – 2%

•<5% require hospitalization

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Diagnosis

•History and symptoms

•Physical examination

•Laboratory testing

Laboratory testing

•Mucus from back of throat

• Culture –first 2 weeks of coughing

•Gold standard • PCR – up to 4 weeks after onset of cough

Laboratory testing

•Serological testing•Used to confirm diagnosis•More useful in later phases of disease

•Optimal timing:  2‐ 8 weeks after onset of coughing

•May perform up to 12 weeks after onset of coughing

Vaccine for pertussis

•Acellular vaccine• Uses parts of the bacteria (capsule, flagella, or cell wall)

• Not as effective as attenuated, live vaccines 

• Requires several immunizations

• 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 15‐18 months, 4 – 6 years

• Booster needed > 11 years of age

Prevention

•Vaccination with DTaP(babies/children) or Tdap (preteens, teens, adults)

• Tdap for pregnant women in 3rd trimester each pregnancy 

•Post‐exposure antimicrobial  prophylaxis

Prevalence

•World‐wide

• 24.1 million cases annually

• 167,000 deaths•Most recent peak year in U.S.:  2012

• 48,277 cases• Largest number reported since 1955

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Last outbreak of pertussis

•2013 & 2014: Dropped to 29,000•Between 1965 and 2005

•No more than 10,000 cases / year

Theories on increase in cases

• Increased awareness

•Better diagnostic techniques•Vaccine ingredients less effective

Study shows best theory

•Change in composition of vaccine

•Original vaccine (194o’s)

•Used dead bacteria (whole cell vaccine)

• Side effects:  fever, convulsions

New vaccine (1990s)

•Acellular• Far fewer components of the bacteria

• Less side effects• Less effective• Prevents 80% of cases• Old vaccine – prevents 90% of cases

Acellular vaccine

•2010 outbreak•Many cases in 7 – 13 year olds

•Due to weaker vaccine received by them in 1990s

• Antibody levels waned

• Booster required•Need vaccine with broader protection

DTP, DTaP, Tdap

•DTP•Older vaccine; no longer used in U.S.

•DTaP• Replaced DTP; safer; less side effects•Given to children 6 weeks to 6 years of age

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DTP, DTaP, Tdap

•Tdap• Lower concentration of diphtheria and pertussis toxoids than DTaP

•Given to 10 – 64 year olds

Annually since 2010Pertussis

Influenza

Influenza

• Contagious respiratory illness•Mild to severe

•May require hospitalization

•May cause death

•High risk for complications

• Elderly• Young children• Other health conditions

Types of flu virus

• Influenza Type A• Sub‐types depending on genes that make up the surface proteins

• Influenza Type B•Both types circulate in a season and cause illness

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Flu virus can change

• Antigenic drift• Small genetic changes that occur as virus replicates

• Cross protection• Immune system still able to respond

•Over time small genetic changes accumulate

• Antibodies ineffective against newer virus

• Individual can get flu again

Antigenic shift

• Abrupt, major change in virus

• Results in a new influenza A subtype that has emerged from an animal population so different from the same subtype in humans that most people have no immunity

• Results in pandemic

• Type B changes only by drift•Drift happens often, shift only occasionally

Transmission

•Person to person through droplets when infected person sneezes, coughs, or talks

•Up to 6 feet away

•Less often by touching contaminated surfaces

Transmission

• Infectious 1 day before symptoms appear

• 5 – 7 days after•Children transmit the virus for longer

•Some cases subclinical, but still infectious

Flu season

•Fall and winter

•Peaks from November to March

Symptoms

• Fever• Sore throat• Cough• Runny or stuffy nose

• Body aches•Headache• Chills• Fatigue

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Laboratory testingon nasal or throat swab

• Rapid influenza tests • Sensitivity less than perfect

• Rapid molecular assay

• Direct or indirect immunofluorescence

• RT‐PCR• Rapid cell culture• Viral tissue culture

Testing Algorithm

Annual flu vaccine

•Mixture of 3 most common strains circulating in the world

New for 2017‐2018

•No use of nasal spray vaccine

•Updated to better match circulating viruses

• Trivalent vaccine • 2 new quadrivalent vaccines licensed• One inactivated –Afluria Quadrivalent (IIV)

• One recombinant ‐ Flublok Quadrivalent (RIV)

• Not propagated in eggs

•New trivalent vaccine with adjuvant

How effective is flu vaccine?

•Depends on age and health status• Immune status of individual

•Match of vaccine to circulating viruses

Vaccine effectiveness

•Overall vaccine effectiveness against influenza‐associated pediatric death in children: 65%

•Vaccine effectiveness in children with high‐risk medical conditions: 51%

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CDC study

•Published August 2016•Study participants: >50 y.o.•Vaccination reduced risk of flu‐related hospitalization by 50%

Statistics

•U.S. prior to 2010‐2011 flu season•3 flu seasons• 115,000 to 630,000 hospitalizations• 5,000 to 27,000 deaths• People over 65 • 54% ‐ 71% of hospitalizations• 71% ‐ 85% deaths

Research – influenza fusion protein

• To increase protection of standard flu vaccine by providing broader cross‐protection and long‐term immunity

• Boosting skin vaccination • Delivered by microneedle skin patch

• Uses a fusion protein (4 sequences of M2e from 4 different influenza subtypes and flagellin)

• M2e: a peptide found in all influenza strains

• Flaggelin: peptide found in bacterial flagella (acts as adjuvant)

CDC recommendations

• Children & adults receive vaccination by October if possible (continue through flu season)

•Use injectable vaccine• Not live‐attenuated nasal spray  vaccine

• 2 doses for previously unvaccinated children 6 months to 9 years old

Flu vaccine saves kid’s lives

•CDC:4 year study (2010‐2014)• Influenza‐associated pediatric deaths less likely in those vaccinated (291 of 358)

Case Study

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Case Study

•52 year old woman

•Presented with flu‐like symptoms

• Fatigue, fever, chills, headaches•Burning‐tingling pain on face•Painful to touch

24 hours later

•Rash with few blisters on upper left side of face

What is the Diagnosis?

•Shingles

•Prescribed high dose of acyclovir

Shingles

•Cause• Reactivation of chicken pox virus (Herpes zoster)

•Treatment

•High dose of antiviral drug• Reduces pain• Reduces chance of complications

• Shortens course of disease

Shingles

•Almost 1 in 3 people in the U.S. will develop shingles in their lifetime

•1 million cases each year

•At risk:  anyone who has had chickenpox

Disease occurrence

•Annual occurrence• 4 cases per 1000 U.S. population• 10 cases per 1000 U.S. population in those over age 60

• 1,000,000 cases in U.S. annually• Incidence of recurrence unknown

• 96 deaths/year

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Shingles

•Can occur at any age•Most common in elderly

• Half of all cases occur over age 60•Usually only occurs once in lifetime

Increased risk for shingles

•Medical conditions that cause immunodeficiency

•HIV• Leukemia

• Lymphoma

• Immunosuppressive drugs

Symptoms

• Pain, itching, or tingling in area where rash will develop

• 1 – 5 days prior to rash• Painful rash that develops on one side of face or body

• Small blisters 

• Scab over in 7‐10 days• Clears up in 2 to 4 weeks

Other symptoms

•Fever•Headache•Chills•Upset stomach

Transmission

•Cannot be spread from one person to another

•Contact with blisters can spread virus to someone who has not had chickenpox

•Not infectious before or after blister‐phase

Complications of shingles

• Permanent nerve damage

• Post‐herpetic neuralgia

• Another attack of shingles

• Bacterial skin infections

• Blindness• Deafness• Encephalitis• Sepsis• Ramsay Hunt syndrome

• Facial paralysis

• Hearing loss

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Post‐herpetic neuralgia (PHN)

• Severe pain persisting after rash clears•May be debilitating

• Lasts from few weeks or months to years

• Risk increases with age

• Rare in persons under 40 y.o. •Occurs in 1/3 of untreated aged 60 or older

Prevention

•Vaccination• CDC recommends 1 dose for those aged 60 and older

• Vaccine efficacy wanes 5 years after vaccination

• Protection beyond 5 years is uncertain

Treatment• Antiviral drugs• Acyclovir• Valacyclovir• Famciclovir

• Shorten duration and severity of disease•Must be initiated as soon as possible after appearance of rash

Treatment

•Analgesics to relieve pain•Wet compresses

•Calamine lotion

•Colloidal oatmeal baths

At risk for shingles

•Only those naturally infected with wild‐type VZV or varicella vaccination

•Vaccinated individuals risk is lower than naturally infected individuals

•99.5% of people in U.S. over age 40 have been infected with wild‐type VZV

Reasons VZV reactivates

•Not well understood

•Risk increases as VZV‐specific cell‐mediated immunity declines

•Due to increasing age, certain medical conditions, immunocompromising drugs

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Potential risk factors

•Women at greater risk

•Less common in African Americans than Caucasians (50% less)

Shingles

•500,000 cases annually•Vaccine approved February, 2006• Estimated 250,ooo cases prevented and 250,000 cases with reduced severity & complications

•Get the vaccination!

CDC Recommended Vaccination Protocols

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Adult Immunization Schedule by Health Condition

Vaccinate or Not??

• Are sequelae of preventable diseases dangerous?

• Do you believe the risk of infection still exists?

• Is the risk serious enough that it should be prevented?

• Do vaccinations cause autism and/or SIDS?• If the general population refuses 

vaccinations, what would happen?• Will we need vaccinations to protect us from 

biological warfare?

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Vaccine Safety:  Controversies

•Because of vaccines, parents have no experience with devastating diseases

•Fear of disease replaced with fear of vaccines

•Vaccines are victims of their own success

Religious & moral issues

•Object to acquisition of initial cell lines for vaccines from voluntarily aborted fetuses

•Catholic church• Suggested that children be immunized

• Do not refuse vaccination because of church’s opposition to abortion

• Issued statement that parent was not responsible for the aborted fetuses

Overwhelmed immune system

•Number of childhood vaccines skyrocketed in last 50 years

•By 2 y.o. child has received 14 vaccines and 26 injections

•Modern vaccines have drastically reduced the number of antigens

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Conclusion

• Schedule of vaccines has increased• Fear of disease replaced by fear of vaccines

•High community vaccination rate necessary to protect those who cannot be vaccinated

Role of health care provider

•Keep current on scientific research•Recognize parent’s fears•Dedicate time to discuss with parents

More research for new and better vaccines

• Malaria• Dengue fever• Cholera• Influenza• Tuberculosis• HSV2• EBV• West Nile encephalitis• Hepatitis E• Many others

Research on Vaccines

• HIV• Alzheimers

• Drugs of abuse• Nicotine

• DNA vaccines ‐Developing New Strategies to Enhance Immune Responses

• Adjuvants

• Reducing post‐traumatic anxiety through immunization

• Group B Strep

• Prion disea se