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R K Sikes

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PubMed1971

Effective protection of monkeys against death from street virus by post-exposure administration of tissue-culture rabies vaccine.

Three series of experiments on rabies vaccines were carried out on rhesus monkeys using suckling-mouse-brain vaccine, rabbit-brain vaccine, duck-embryo vaccine, and purified, concentrated tissue-culture vaccine. The latter was prepared in a human diploid cell strain and inactivated with beta-propiolactone, and consisted of tissue-culture fluid concentrated 200-fold with a final infectivity titre of 10(9.8) plaque-forming units per ml before inactivation. In the first two series of experiments, several vaccines were tested for relative immunogenicity on a pre-exposure basis. In the third series, a successful model was developed in which a single inoculation of the tissue-culture vaccine administered after exposure to rabies virus, with or without accompanying standard doses of antirabies serum, was evaluated as a method of prevention. A single dose of the tissue-culture vaccine protected 7 out of 8 monkeys from death by street virus. Homologous or heterologous antirabies serum alone gave poor results. The results indicate great promise for prophylaxis in man with one dose, or perhaps a few doses, of highly concentrated, purified tissue-culture vaccine.

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PubMed1969

Rabies vaccines.

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PubMed1968

Arctic rabies.

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Prevalence of antibodies to Legionella pneumophila among workers exposed to a contaminated cooling tower.

A serosurvey for antibodies to Legionella pneumophila was conducted among 206 employees of a power-generating plant. L. pneumophila serotype 6 and a non-typable L. pneumophila organism were isolated from cooling-tower water specimens at the plant, and antibody titers in workers were measured using homologous antigens prepared from these isolates. For the serotype 6 water isolate, none of workers with low cooling tower exposure, 4.6% with intermediate exposure, and 7.6% with high exposure levels had titers equal to or greater than 1:128 (P less than .05, Kruskal-Wallis test). For the non-typable L. pneumophila isolate, a similar trend was observed, but differences among workers in the three exposure groups were not statistically significant. No association was observed between antibodies to L. pneumophila serotypes isolated from cooling water and workers' age, race, smoking status, or duration of job assignment. None of the study employees had findings suggesting the occurrence of L. pneumophila pneumonia since the plant had been in operation. Use of respiratory protection devices by workers exposed to aerosols from cooling towers was not recommended.

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