Affiliations: [a] Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia | [b] Main Medical Laboratory, Medical Services, Saudi Airlines, Jeddah 21231, Saudi Arabia | [c] Therapeutic and Protective Proteins Laboratory, Protein Research Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications, New Borg EL-Arab 21934, Egypt
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Corresponding author: E.M. Redwan, Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia. E-mail: redwan1961@yahoo.com,lradwan@kau.edu.sa.
Abstract: Our previous reported that Jeddah, Saudi Arabia population have a comparable and protective herd immunity represented by IgG, IgA and IgM against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), by using indirect ELISA test was used to evaluate Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) anti-polyribosyl-ribitol phosphate (PRP) total antibodies (IgM, IgG, IgA) in 1,003 sera samples. Current report was evaluated the IgG and IgA subclasses responsible about this protection using same methodology. IgG, IgA, and their subclasses are responsible about this circulating protection. Our study will consider the first report evaluate the levels of IgA subclasses and its relation to ages, as well as the relations between anti-Hib antibody subclass and age. The current results demonstrated that the highest levels concentrated in IgG1 and IgG2, while IgG3 and IgG4 showed the lowest levels. So, their concentrations were arranged in IgG1 > IgG2 > IgG3 > IgG4. The results indicated that the age and gender have no effect on both IgG or IgA subclasses in healthy immunized individuals enrolled. While, IgA1 concentrations were significantly higher than IgA2 in all age categories regardless of gender. It seem that the IgG1, IgG2 and IgA1 subclasses were the main constituent of Jeddah herd immunity against Hib. Finally, to the best of our knowledge, there were no previous reports that focusing on the levels of IgA subclasses and its relation to ages, so our study considers the first worldwide.
Keywords: Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), anti-polyribosyl-ribitol phosphate (PRP), conjugate vaccine, antibodies, Subclasses, IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, IgG4, IgA1, IgA2
