Abstract
UNLABELLED: Avian influenza continues to circulate and remains a global health threat not least because of the associated high mortality. In this study antibody persistence, booster vaccine response and cross-clade immune response between two influenza A(H5N1) vaccines were compared. Participants aged over 18-years who had previously been immunized with a clade 1, A/Vietnam vaccine were re-immunized at 6-months with 7.5 μg of the homologous strain or at 22-months with a clade 2, alum-adjuvanted, A/Indonesia vaccine. Blood sampled at 6, 15 and 22-months after the primary course was used to assess antibody persistence. Antibody concentrations 6-months after primary immunisation with either A/Vietnam vaccine 30 μg alum-adjuvanted vaccine or 7.5 μg dose vaccine were lower than 21-days after the primary course and waned further with time. Re-immunization with the clade 2, 30 μg alum-adjuvanted vaccine confirmed cross-clade reactogenicity. Antibody cross-reactivity between A(H5N1) clades suggests that in principle a prime-boost vaccination strategy may provide both early protection at the start of a pandemic and improved antibody responses to specific vaccination once available.
TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00415129.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | e0165384 |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
Keywords
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/administration & dosage
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral/immunology
- Antibody Formation/immunology
- Birds/immunology
- Humans
- Immunization, Secondary/methods
- Indonesia
- Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype/immunology
- Influenza Vaccines/immunology
- Influenza in Birds/immunology
- Influenza, Human/immunology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neutralization Tests/methods
- Vaccination/methods
- Vietnam
- Virion/immunology
- Young Adult