Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Prior exposure to B. pertussis shapes the mucosal antibody response to acellular pertussis booster vaccination

  • Evi van Schuppen,
  • Janeri Fröberg,
  • Prashanna Balaji Venkatasubramanian,
  • Pauline Versteegen,
  • Hans de Graaf,
  • Jana Holubová,
  • Joshua Gillard,
  • Pieter G. M. van Gageldonk,
  • Irma Joosten,
  • Ronald de Groot,
  • Peter Šebo,
  • Guy A. M. Berbers,
  • Robert C. Read,
  • Martijn A. Huynen,
  • Marien I. de Jonge,
  • Dimitri A. Diavatopoulos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35165-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Bordetella pertussis (Bp), the causative agent of pertussis, continues to circulate and it’s not well understood how (sub)clinical infections shape immune memory to Bp and vaccination. Here, using a mutant Bp strain lacking antigens of the acellular pertussis vaccine, the authors show how prior exposure to Bp shapes the mucosal antibody response to booster vaccination.