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Head-to-head comparison of an intradermal and a virosome influenza vaccine in patients over the age of 60: Evaluation of immunogenicity, cross-protect

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Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2013 Jan 7;9(3). [Epub ahead of print]
Head-to-head comparison of an intradermal and a virosome influenza vaccine in patients over the age of 60: Evaluation of immunogenicity, cross-protection, safety and tolerability.
Ansaldi F, Orsi A, de Florentiis D, Parodi V, Rappazzo E, Coppelli M, Durando P, Icardi G.
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I.R.C.C.S. "A.O.U. San Martino-IST"; Genoa, Italy; Department of Health Sciences; University of Genoa; Genoa, Italy.
Abstract

In the present study we first compare immunogenicity against vaccine and heterologous circulating A(H1N1)pdm09 strains, tolerability and safety of intradermal Intanza? 15 ?g and of virosomal adjuvanted, intramuscularly delivered influenza vaccine, Inflexal? V, in healthy elderly volunteers. Five-hundred participants were enrolled in the study and randomly assigned to the two vaccine groups to receive either one dose of Intanza? 15 ?g or Inflexal? V vaccine. All subjects reported solicited local and systemic reactions occurred within 7 d after vaccination and unsolicited adverse events up to 21 d post-immunization and any serious adverse event appeared during the study. A subset of 55 participants was randomly selected for immunogenicity and cross-protection evaluations. Serum samples were collected before and 1 and 3 mo after immunization. Antibody responses were measured using hemagglutination inhibition (HI) against all viruses used in the study and neutralization (NT) assays against A(H1N1)pdm09 strains. At least one of the CHMP criteria for influenza vaccine approval in the elderly was met by virosomal vaccine against all the tested viruses; intradermal vaccine met all criteria against all strains. Several parameters of immune response against strains with a different antigenic pattern from that of vaccine A/California/04/09(H1N1)pdm09 were significantly higher in the intradermal vaccine group compared with the virosomal group. Safety and systemic tolerability of both vaccines were excellent, but injection site reactions occurred significantly more frequently in the intradermal vaccination group. Immunogenicity of Intanza? 15 ?g intradermal vaccine tended to be higher than that of Inflexal? V against heterologous strains in healthy elderly.

PMID:
23295262
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23295262
 
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