Table 1. Dosage of different vaccination regimes: A summary of priming and boosting agents used in the study with the corresponding dosages.
Experiment | Priming | Boosting | Number of mice | ||
Agent | Dose | Agent | Dose | ||
IFN-γ ELISPOT | VV-PYCS | 107 PFU | VV-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 |
PPV1 | 10 µg | VV-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | |
PPV | 50 µg | VV-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | |
PPV | 10 µg | MVA-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | |
PPV | 50 µg | MVA-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | |
PPV | 100 µg | MVA-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | |
PPV | 10 µg | VV-LUC | 107 PFU | 5 | |
– | MVA-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | ||
nrPPV2 | 50 µg | MVA-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | |
PPV | 10 µg | PPV | 10 µg | 5 | |
PPV | 100 µg | PPV | 100 µg | 5 | |
Intra-cellular Cytokine Staining (ICS) | PPV | 50 µg | PPV | 50 µg | 4 |
PPV | 50 µg | MVA-PYCS | 107 PFU | 4 | |
DNA-PYCS | 100 µg | MVA-PYCS | 107 PFU | 4 | |
nrPPV | 50 µg | nrPPV | 50 µg | 4 | |
PBS | PBS | 4 | |||
Challenge Studies | VV-PYCS | 107 PFU | VV-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 |
PPV | 10 µg | VV-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | |
PPV | 50 µg | VV-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | |
PPV | 50 µg | MVA-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | |
FLU-PYCS | 107 PFU | MVA-PYCS | 107 PFU | 5 | |
PPV | 10 µg | PPV | 10 µg | 5 | |
– | – | 5 |
All agents were administered s.c except for DNA-PYCS which was injected intradermally.
PPV refers to PPV-VLPs containing the CD8 epitope of P.yoelii CS protein.
nrPPV refers to non-recombinant PPV-VLPs.