There is currently no approved influenza vaccine for newborns, so development of such a vaccine is warranted. Here the authors show, using a African green monkey newborn model, that an adjuvanted nanoparticle vaccine containing the stem region of influenza hemagglutinin can induce robust IgG responses, with the functionality of the antibodies linked to viral clearance.
- Kali F. Crofts
- Beth C. Holbrook
- Martha A. Alexander-Miller