Table 1

Immunization timetable of enrolled military personnel for the 15 month preceding blood collection.

Vaccination (weeks prior to blood collection)

Serum chemokines (pg/ml)

donor

smallpox

anthrax

rabies

typhoid

influenza

MIP-1α

MIP-1β

IL-8

RANTES

1

57

45

14

14

14

671

981

346

40,866

2

44

nd

nd

nd

nd

874

722

861

63,986

3

60

*

*

*

*

1,219

1,338

669

27,619

4

58

49

ni

49

70, 18

801

791

577

37,571

5

62

ni

ni

ni

ni

760

929

404

48,545

6

62

57, 55, 53

62

55

ni

780

915

348

22,070

*Donor #3 was immunized once against smallpox, once against anthrax, once against typhoid, three times against rabies and once against influenza within 60 weeks prior to blood donation (exact dates of immunizations are not available)

nd – no data available; ni – not immunized.

Brichacek et al. BMC Immunology 2006 7:21   doi:10.1186/1471-2172-7-21