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* Department of Microbiology and
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
Vaccination of children with a formalin-inactivated (FI) respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine led to exacerbated disease including pulmonary eosinophilia following a natural RSV infection. Immunization of BALB/c mice with FI-RSV or a recombinant vaccinia virus (vv) expressing the RSV attachment (G) protein (vvG) results in a pulmonary Th2 response and eosinophilia after RSV challenge that closely mimics the RSV vaccine-enhanced disease observed in humans. The underlying causes of RSV vaccine-enhanced disease remain poorly understood. We demonstrate here that RSV M2-specific CD8 T cells reduce the Th2-mediated pathology induced by vvG-immunization and RSV challenge in an IFN-
-independent manner. We also demonstrate that FI-RSV immunization does not induce a measurable RSV-specific CD8 T cell response and that priming FI-RSV-immunized mice for a potent memory RSV-specific CD8 T cell response abrogates pulmonary eosinophilia after subsequent RSV challenge. Our results suggest that the failure of the FI-RSV vaccine to induce a CD8 T cell response may have contributed to the development of pulmonary eosinophilia and augmented disease that occurred in vaccinated individuals.
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1 This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant AI 063520, American Heart Association Heartland Affiliate Beginning Grant-in-Aid 0615625Z (to S.M.V.), and National Institutes of Health Training Grant T32AI007533 (to M.R.O.).
2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Steven Varga, Department of Microbiology, 51 Newton Road, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. E-mail address: steven-varga{at}uiowa.edu
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: RSV, respiratory syncytial virus; BAL, bronchial alveolar lavage; 
-gal, -galactosidase; F, fusion; GKO, IFN- deficient; FI-RSV, formalin inactivated-RSV; ICS, intracellular cytokine staining; vv, vaccinia virus; WT, wild type.
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