Prime-boost immunization strategies for infectious diseases

Curr Opin Mol Ther. 2002 Feb;4(1):23-7.

Abstract

New vaccination strategies that induce the cellular arm of the immune response are needed for the development of effective prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines against a number of intracellular pathogens. DNA vaccines, recombinant viral vectors and recombinant proteins are all effective antigen delivery systems for inducing cellular immunity; however, when used alone, the levels of specific responses they induce are low. Prime-boost immunization strategies involve using two different vaccines, each encoding the same antigen, some weeks apart. Such strategies have been shown to enhance cellular immunity in several different animal and disease models.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • AIDS Vaccines / administration & dosage
  • Animals
  • Antigens / administration & dosage
  • BCG Vaccine / administration & dosage
  • Communicable Disease Control
  • Communicable Diseases / immunology*
  • Communicable Diseases / therapy
  • HIV Infections / immunology
  • HIV Infections / prevention & control
  • Humans
  • Immunity, Cellular
  • Immunization / methods*
  • Immunization, Secondary
  • Malaria / immunology
  • Malaria / prevention & control
  • Malaria Vaccines / administration & dosage
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / immunology
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / prevention & control

Substances

  • AIDS Vaccines
  • Antigens
  • BCG Vaccine
  • Malaria Vaccines