Voysey, M; Barker, CI; Snape, MD; Kelly, DF; Trück, J; Pollard, AJ
(2016)
Sex-dependent immune responses to infant vaccination: an individual participant data meta-analysis of antibody and memory B cells.
Vaccine, 34 (14).
pp. 1657-1664.
ISSN 1873-2518
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.02.036
SGUL Authors: Barker, Charlotte Ida Sophia
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Biological sex can be an important source of variation in infection and immunity and sex-dependent differences in immune response to vaccination have been reported in some studies. METHODS: We conducted an individual participant data meta-analysis of vaccine trials from one research centre, in which vaccines were administered to children under three years of age and immunological parameters measured. Log-transformed antigen-specific antibody and memory B cell results were meta-analysed and differences between girls and boys reported as geometric mean ratios. RESULTS: Antibody and memory B cell data were available from nine trials and 2378 children. Statistically significant differences between girls and boys were observed for diphtheria toxoid, capsular group A, W, and Y meningococcal, and pneumococcal vaccines. No sex-differences were observed for responses to Haemophilus influenzae type b, capsular group C meningococcal or tetanus toxoid vaccines. CONCLUSIONS: In young children, immune responses to vaccines were consistently higher or equivalent in girls compared with boys. In no instance were responses in boys significantly higher than girls. While these data do not indicate differences in protection conferred by immunisation in boys and girls, they do support further consideration of biological sex in planning of clinical trials of vaccines.
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Additional Information: | © 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | ||||
Keywords: | Antibody, Individual participant data, Infant, Memory B cells, Meta-analysis, Sex-differences, Vaccine, Antibody, Memory B cells, Sex-differences, Infant, Vaccine, Individual participant data, Meta-analysis, Virology, 06 Biological Sciences, 07 Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences, 11 Medical And Health Sciences | ||||
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Vaccine | ||||
ISSN: | 1873-2518 | ||||
Language: | eng | ||||
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Publisher License: | Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 | ||||
PubMed ID: | 26920472 | ||||
Web of Science ID: | WOS:000373415200003 | ||||
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URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/107747 | ||||
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.02.036 |
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