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. 2004 Dec;72(12):7115–7123. doi: 10.1128/IAI.72.12.7115-7123.2004

TABLE 3.

Comparative recognition of synthetic and natural PRP oligosaccharide conjugatesa

Rabbit no. Vaccine Polysaccharide sPRP-HSA HbO-HA sPRP-BSA
1 PRP-CRM197 Oligosaccharide 1.98 2.14
2 PRP-CRM197 Oligosaccharide 3.51 3.66
3 PRP-CRM197 Oligosacchide 2.93 3.00
4 PRP-TT Polysaccharide 2.63 2.73
5 PRP-TT Polysaccharide 1.54 1.13
6 PRP-TT Polysaccharide 3.25 3.10
7 PRP-TT Polysaccharide 2.08 1.73
8 PRP-TT Polysaccharide 2.72 2.60
11 PRP-CRM197 Oligosacchide 3.76 3.73
12 PRP-CRM197 Oligosacchide 3.23 3.23
13 PRP-CRM197 Oligosacchide 2.91 2.94
14 PRP-TT Polysaccharide 2.62 2.46
15 PRP-TT Polysaccharide 2.27 2.42
16 PRP-TT Polysaccharide 2.72 2.83
17 PRP-TT Polysaccharide 3.29 3.37
18 PRP-TT Polysaccharide 2.76 2.84
a

Rabbits were immunized with PRP-TT or PRP-CRM197. For rabbits 1 to 8, sPRP- and PRP-HSA conjugates were used as coating reagent; for rabbits 11 to 18, the coating antigen used was sPRP with two different protein carriers, HSA and BSA. Values are for individual sera.