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. 1990 Feb;69(2):190–194.

The serum polymeric IgA antibody response to typhoid vaccination; its relationship to the intestinal IgA response.

R C Bartholomeusz 1, B D Forrest 1, J T Labrooy 1, P L Ey 1, D Pyle 1, D J Shearman 1, D Rowley 1
PMCID: PMC1385588  PMID: 2307480

Abstract

The relationship between the IgA antibody response in serum (total and polymeric IgA) and intestinal secretions was examined in volunteers subjected to oral and parenteral typhoid vaccination. After oral vaccination (three doses of 10(11) live Ty21a vaccine given at 48-hr intervals), serum pIgA antibody to typhoid lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was detected in seven of the 14 subjects (46.4 +/- 59 U/100 microliters, mean +/- SD). However, all 14 showed a significant intestinal IgA response (993 +/- 2516 and 9349 +/- 6754 U/mg pre- and post-vaccine; t = 5.25, P = 0.0002). The level of pIgA antibody declined rapidly, whereas intestinal IgA antibody levels remained elevated. Serum pIgA antibody was also found after parenteral immunization (two doses of 5 X 10(8) heat-killed bacteria given 14 days apart to six subjects), but an intestinal IgA antibody response was detected in these individuals only after a subsequent course of the oral vaccine given 1 month after initial parenteral immunization. Changes in serum pIgA antibody followed those of total serum IgA antibody rather than those of intestinal antibody. The results indicate that a serum pIgA response can be induced by an antigenic stimulus delivered either orally or parenterally, whereas an intestinal IgA response is induced only by a local antigen stimulus. The regulation of serum pIgA and intestinal IgA appear to be independent.

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