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SUBMITTER: O'Brien KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2756115 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature medicine 20090720 8
The immunologic basis for the potential enhanced HIV-1 acquisition in adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5)-seropositive individuals who received the Merck recombinant Ad5 HIV-1 vaccine in the STEP study remains unclear. Here we show that baseline Ad5-specific neutralizing antibodies are not correlated with Ad5-specific T lymphocyte responses and that Ad5-seropositive subjects do not develop higher vector-specific cellular immune responses as compared with Ad5-seronegative subjects after vaccination. Thes ...[more]