Antibody Persistence and Booster Responses to Split-Virion H5N1 Avian Influenza Vaccine in Young and Elderly Adults

Rajeka Lazarus, Sarah Kelly, Matthew D Snape, Corinne Vandermeulen, Merryn Voysey, Karel Hoppenbrouwers, Annick Hens, Pierre Van Damme, Stephanie Pepin, Isabel Leroux-Roels, Geert Leroux-Roels, Andrew J Pollard

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)e0165384
JournalPLoS ONE
Volume11
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 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

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