ChAd155-RSV vaccine is immunogenic and efficacious against bovine RSV infection-induced disease in young calves.

Autor: de Jong, Rineke, Stockhofe-Zurwieden, Norbert, Bonsing, Judith, Wang, Kai-Fen, Vandepaer, Sarah, Bouzya, Badiaa, Toussaint, Jean-François, Dieussaert, Ilse, Song, Haifeng, Steff, Ann-Muriel
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Zdroj: Nature Communications; 10/17/2022, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p1-14, 14p
Abstrakt: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection causes a substantial lower-respiratory-tract disease burden in infants, constituting a global priority for vaccine development. We evaluated immunogenicity, safety and efficacy of a chimpanzee adenovirus (ChAd)-based vaccine candidate, ChAd155-RSV, in a bovine RSV (bRSV) challenge model. This model closely reproduces the pathogenesis/clinical manifestations of severe pediatric RSV disease. In seronegative calves, ChAd155-RSV elicits robust neutralizing antibody responses against human RSV. Two doses protect calves from clinical symptoms/lung pathological changes, and reduce nasal/lung virus loads after both a short (4-week) and a long (16-week) interval between last immunization and subsequent bRSV challenge. The one-dose regimen confers near-complete or significant protection after short-term or long-term intervals before challenge, respectively. The presence of pre-existing bRSV-antibodies does not affect short-term efficacy of the two-dose regimen. Immunized calves present no clinical signs of enhanced respiratory disease. Collectively, this supports the development of ChAd155-RSV as an RSV vaccine candidate for infants. A pediatric RSV vaccine is an unmet medical need, even after >50 years of effort. Here, the authors show that a chimpanzee adenovirus based RSV vaccine candidate protects calves from disease upon RSV infection, regardless of the time after vaccination (1 or 4 months) or the presence of maternal antibodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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