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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2016
Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a composition and a food or drink, having the effect of enhancing an immune response to an antigen, which is administered by another route such as subcutaneous injection, by orally administering to a subject, lactic acid bacteria, a culture thereof, a treated product thereof, or a composition comprising the same. An oral ingestion composition, which comprises a lactic acid bacterium strain that issubsp.enhancing the proliferation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and the generation of antibodies, or a culture or treated product thereof, and is used in combination with an antigen as a vaccine, wherein the oral ingestion composition is for use in enhancing the proliferation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) specific to the antigen and the generation of antibodies specific to the antigen.