Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine in Young Adults and Older Bronchitics: Determination of IgG Responses by ELISA and the Effect of Adsorption of Serum with Non-Type-Specific Cell Wall Polysaccharide

PREVENTION OF PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA BY IMMUNIZATION WITH SPECIFIC CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDES

1945 • 514 citations

Correlation between Serum IgG-2 Concentrations and the Antibody Response to Bacterial Polysaccharide Antigens

1980 • 472 citations

7. Prevention of Pneumococcal Pneumonia by Vaccination

1985 • 410 citations

Efficacy of Pneumococcal Vaccine in High-Risk Patients

1986 • 394 citations

Protective Efficacy of Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccines

1977 • 348 citations

The Clinical Effectiveness of Pneumococcal Vaccine in the Elderly

1988 • 323 citations

Some Observations on the Pneumococcus and on the Current Status of Pneumococcal Disease and Its Prevention

1981 • 294 citations

Pneumococcal Vaccine Efficacy in Selected Populations in the United States

1986 • 268 citations

A Controlled Evaluation of the Protective Efficacy of Pneumococcal Vaccine for Patients at High Risk of Serious Pneumococcal Infections

1984 • 264 citations

IgG2 subclass restriction of antibody to pneumococcal polysaccharides.

1986 • 259 citations

A radioimmunoassay for immunologic phenomena in pneumococcal disease and for the antibody response to pneumococcal vaccines. I. Method for the radioimmunoassay of anticapsular antibodies and comparison with other techniques

1980 • 196 citations

[55] The avidin-biotin complex in affinity cytochemistry

1979 • 194 citations

Natural and Vaccine-Related Immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae

1986 • 194 citations

Inefficacy of pneumococcal vaccine in a high-risk population

1987 • 174 citations

Mouse IgG3 antibodies are highly protective against infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae

1981 • 170 citations

Quantitative and qualitative analyses of serum antibodies elicited in adults by Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcus type 6A capsular polysaccharide-tetanus toxoid conjugates

1986 • 165 citations

Serum antibodies to pneumococcal C polysaccharide in children

1987 • 153 citations

Pneumococcal Vaccine: Clinical Efficacy and Effectiveness

1982 • 134 citations

Streptococcus pneumoniae Polysaccharide Vaccine: Age and Dose Responses, Safety, Persistence of Antibody, Revaccination, and Simultaneous Administration of Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccines

1981 • 128 citations

Class-Specific Antibody Response to Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharides in Men Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

1988 • 127 citations

PNEUMONIA IN OLD AGE

1947 • 121 citations

The Antibody Responses to Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharides in Aged Individuals

1980 • 117 citations

The Role of Antibody and Complement in the Reticuloendothelial Clearance of Pneumococci from the Bloodstream

1983 • 116 citations

Serum Antibody and Opsonic Responses to Vaccination with Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide in Normal and Splenectomized Children

1980 • 113 citations

Ultrastructural localization of capsules, cell wall polysaccharide, cell wall proteins, and F antigen in pneumococci

1988 • 96 citations

Functional Characterization of Human IgG, IgM, and IgA Antibody Directed to the Capsule of Haemophilus influenzae Type b

1986 • 95 citations

Does Naturally Acquired IgG Antibody to Cell Wall Polysaccharide Protect Human Subjects against Pneumococcal Infection?

1990 • 95 citations

Standardization of antibody assays for measuring the response to pneumococcal infection and immunization

1989 • 87 citations

Pneumococcal Antibody Levels One Decade After Immunization of Healthy Adults**Mufson MA, Krause HE, Schiffman G, Hughey D: Decline in pneumococcal antibody levels one decade after administration of polysaccharide vaccine. Clin Res 34:222A, 1986.

1987 • 73 citations

A Simple Method for Preparing Antigenic Substances from the Typhoid Bacillus

1940 • 72 citations

Blood clearance by anti-phosphocholine antibodies as a mechanism of protection in experimental pneumococcal bacteremia.

1984 • 71 citations

Pneumococcal Vaccine in the United States

1981 • 70 citations

Cross-reactions between pneumococci and other streptococci due to C polysaccharide and F antigen

1987 • 69 citations

Protection against pneumococcal infection in mice conferred by phosphocholine-binding antibodies: specificity of the phosphocholine binding and relation to several types

1983 • 64 citations

Studies on Immunizing Substances in Pneumococci: VIII. Report on Field Tests to Determine the Prophylactic Value of a Pneumococcus Antigen

1938 • 64 citations

Immune Response of Elderly Adults to Pneumococcus: Variation by Age, Sex, and Functional Impairment

1987 • 58 citations

Pneumococcal Vaccine in the Institutionalized Elderly: Design of a Nonrandomized Trial and Preliminary Results

1981 • 57 citations

Pneumococcal Vaccine and Patients with Chronic Lung Disease

1986 • 57 citations

Rabbit antibodies to the cell wall polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae fail to protect mice from lethal challenge with encapsulated pneumococci

1986 • 55 citations

Marker discrimination in deoxyribonucleic acid-mediated transformation of various Pneumococcus strains

1975 • 55 citations

IgG subclass changes in response to vaccination.

1986 • 54 citations

Correlation of serum opsonins with in vitro phagocytosis of Streptococcus pneumoniae

1985 • 54 citations

Resistance to Streptococcus pneumoniae is induced by a phosphocholine-protein conjugate.

1983 • 49 citations

Phosphorylcholine determinants in six pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides detected by monoclonal antibody

1984 • 49 citations

Pneumococcal Vaccine in the Institutionalized Elderly: Review of Past and Recent Studies

1981 • 46 citations

Subpopulations of antibodies to phosphocholine in human serum.

1984 • 43 citations

Binding of C-reactive protein to the pneumococcal capsule or cell wall results in differential localization of C3 and stimulation of phagocytosis.

1984 • 42 citations

Naturally Occurring Antibodies to Phosphocholine as a Potential Index of Antibody Responsiveness to Polysaccharides

1987 • 42 citations

Immunity to Haemophilus influenzae Type b in Young Adults: Correlation of Bactericidal and Opsonizing Activity of Serum with Antibody to Polyribosylribitol Phosphate and Lipooligosaccharide Before and After Vaccination

1986 • 38 citations

Immunoglobulin G class and subclass antibodies to pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides

1987 • 38 citations

Synthesis and physicochemical and immunological characterization of pneumococcus type 12F polysaccharide-diphtheria toxoid conjugates

1988 • 37 citations

The effects of subclass on the ability of anti-phosphocholine antibodies to protect mice from fatal infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae.

1984 • 34 citations

Pneumococcal antibodies (IgG, IgM) in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease 3 years after pneumococcal vaccination

1985 • 30 citations

Analysis of humoral and phagocytic defenses against Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 1 and 3.

1988 • 24 citations

Serum Opsonic Activity for Haemophilus influenzae Type b in Infants Immunized with Polysaccharide-Protein Conjugate Vaccines

1985 • 19 citations

Immune response to a 14-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in the elderly.

1981 • 9 citations

Human-isotype-specific enzyme immunoassay for antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharides

1988 • 8 citations