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ABSTRACTThe impact of endemic parasitic infection on vaccine efficacy is an important consideration for vaccine development and deployment. We have examined whether intestinal infection with the natural murine helminthHeligmosomoides polygyrus bakerialters antigen-specific antibody and cellular immune responses to oral and parenteral vaccination in mice. We found that oral vaccination of mice with a clinically relevant, live, attenuated, recombinantSalmonellavaccine that expresses chicken egg ovalbumin (Salmonella-OVA) disrupts ovalbumin-specific regulatory T cell networks in the gut associated lymphoid tissue and promotes T-effector responses to OVA. Chronic intestinal helminth infection significantly reduced Th1-skewed antibody responses to oral vaccination withSalmonella-OVA. Activated, adoptively-transferred, OVA-specific CD4+T cells accumulated in draining mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) of vaccinated mice, irrespective of their helminth-infection status. However, helminth infection increased the frequencies of adoptively-transferred OVA-specific CD4+T cells producing IL-4 and IL-10 in the MLN. Chronic intestinal helminth infection also significantly reduced Th2-skewed antibody responses to parenteral vaccination with OVA adsorbed to alum. These findings suggest helminth-induced impairment of vaccine antibody responses may be driven by the development of IL-10-secreting CD4+T regulatory cells. They also underscore the potential need to treat parasitic infection before mass vaccination campaigns in helminth-endemic areas.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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