Enhanced sensitisation of mice with diphtheria tetanus acellular pertussis vaccine to local swelling reaction to the booster immunisation.

Akihiko Yamamoto, Noriyo Nagata, Masaki Ochiai, Michiyo Kataoka, Hiromi Toyoizumi, Kenji Okada, Yoshinobu Horiuchi

Department of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Infection Control, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1 Gakuen, Musashimurayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan. yama-aki@nih.go.jp

Vaccine 2002 Aug 19

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Severe local swelling has been regarded as a serious safety problem for the booster immunisations of diphtheria tetanus acellular pertussis combined (DTaP) vaccine and DT combined toxoids (DT-td). We attempted to search for the factor of DTaP vaccines possibly contributing to the enhanced local reaction by using the mouse hind paw swelling reaction. Mice were immunised intramuscularly with DTaP vaccine twice at 1-month interval and were challenged their hind paw with one of the antigens of DTaP vaccine 2 weeks later. D-td was shown to elicit the strongest swelling among the vaccine antigens. No causal relationship was found between the swelling and the level of immunoglobulin G (IgG) or IgE in mice. Residual pertussis toxin (PT) activity of DTaP vaccines for immunisation was shown to play a role in the enhanced sensitisation of mice to the D-td-related hind paw swelling. Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd.

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Akihiko Yamamoto, Noriyo Nagata, Masaki Ochiai, Michiyo Kataoka, Hiromi Toyoizumi, Kenji Okada, Yoshinobu Horiuchi. Enhanced sensitisation of mice with diphtheria tetanus acellular pertussis vaccine to local swelling reaction to the booster immunisation. Vaccine. 2002 Aug 19;20(25-26):3088-94