Immune correlates of protection of the four-segmented Rift Valley fever virus candidate vaccine in mice.

Autor:	Prajeeth CK; Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany., Zdora I; Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany., Saletti G; Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany., Friese J; Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany., Gerlach T; Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany., Wilken L; Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany.; Leibniz Institute of Virology (LIV), Hamburg, Germany., Beicht J; Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany., Kubinski M; Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany., Puff C; Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany., Baumgärtner W; Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany., Kortekaas J; Department of Virology and Molecular Biology, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Wageningen University & Research, Lelystad, The Netherlands.; Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Global Innovation, Saint Priest, France., Wichgers Schreur PJ; Department of Virology and Molecular Biology, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Wageningen University & Research, Lelystad, The Netherlands.; BunyaVax B.V., Lelystad, The Netherlands., Osterhaus ADME; Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany., Rimmelzwaan GF; Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Emerging microbes & infections [Emerg Microbes Infect] 2024 Dec; Vol. 13 (1), pp. 2373313. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 10.
DOI:	10.1080/22221751.2024.2373313
Abstrakt:	Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic disease caused by RVF virus (RVFV). RVFV infections in humans are usually asymptomatic or associated with mild febrile illness, although more severe cases of haemorrhagic disease and encephalitis with high mortality also occur. Currently, there are no licensed human vaccines available. The safety and efficacy of a genetically engineered four-segmented RVFV variant (hRVFV-4s) as a potential live-attenuated human vaccine has been tested successfully in mice, ruminants, and marmosets though the correlates of protection of this vaccine are still largely unknown. In the present study, we have assessed hRVFV-4s-induced humoral and cellular immunity in a mouse model of RVFV infection. Our results confirm that a single dose of hRVFV-4s is highly efficient in protecting naïve mice from developing severe disease following intraperitoneal challenge with a highly virulent RVFV strain and data show that virus neutralizing (VN) serum antibody titres in a prime-boost regimen are significantly higher compared to the single dose. Subsequently, VN antibodies from prime-boost-vaccinated recipients were shown to be protective when transferred to naïve mice. In addition, hRVFV-4s vaccination induced a significant virus-specific T cell response as shown by IFN-γ ELISpot assay, though these T cells did not provide significant protection upon passive transfer to naïve recipient mice. Collectively, this study highlights hRVFV-4s-induced VN antibodies as a major correlate of protection against lethal RVFV infection.
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