Giuseppe
Emeritus
Vaccine. 2009 Apr 21;27(18):2506-12. Epub 2009 Feb 24.
DNA vaccination protects against an influenza challenge in a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled phase 1b clinical trial.
Jones S, Evans K, McElwaine-Johnn H, Sharpe M, Oxford J, Lambkin-Williams R, Mant T, Nolan A, Zambon M, Ellis J, Beadle J, Loudon PT. - PowderMed Ltd., 4 Robert Robinson Ave, Oxford Science Park, Oxford OX4 4GA, UK.
BACKGROUND:
We have developed a Trivalent DNA vaccine for influenza consisting of three plasmids expressing haemagglutinin from different seasonal influenza virus strains delivered using PMED (particle mediated epidermal delivery). We set out to determine whether this vaccine (with and without a molecular adjuvant DNA Encoded Immunostimulator-Labile Toxin (DEI-LT)) could protect subjects from a controlled influenza virus challenge.
METHODS:
Healthy adult subjects were screened for susceptibility to infection with influenza A/H3 Panama/2007/99 then vaccinated with 4?g Trivalent influenza DNA vaccine, 2mcg Trivalent influenza DNA vaccine plus DEI-LT or placebo. Safety and serological responses to vaccination were assessed and on Day 56 subjects were challenged with A/H3 Panama/2007/99 virus.
RESULTS:
Vaccination with 4mcg Trivalent or 2?g Trivalent/DEI-LT was well tolerated and induced antibody responses to two of the three influenza virus vaccine strains. Post challenge, subjects in the 4mcg Trivalent group (N=27) showed reductions in disease symptoms and viral shedding compared to placebo (N=27), with an overall vaccine efficacy of 41% (95% confidence interval (CI)=?1.5, 67.7) for 'Any illness with or without fever' and 53% for 'Upper respiratory tract infection' (95% CI=8.0, 77.7).
CONCLUSION:
It was concluded that PMED vaccination with 4mcg Trivalent influenza DNA vaccine was safe and elicited immunological responses that protected human subjects from influenza; this is the first report of protection of human subjects from disease by DNA vaccination.
PMID: 19368793 [PubMed - in process]
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DNA vaccination protects against an influenza challenge in a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled phase 1b clinical trial.
Jones S, Evans K, McElwaine-Johnn H, Sharpe M, Oxford J, Lambkin-Williams R, Mant T, Nolan A, Zambon M, Ellis J, Beadle J, Loudon PT. - PowderMed Ltd., 4 Robert Robinson Ave, Oxford Science Park, Oxford OX4 4GA, UK.
BACKGROUND:
We have developed a Trivalent DNA vaccine for influenza consisting of three plasmids expressing haemagglutinin from different seasonal influenza virus strains delivered using PMED (particle mediated epidermal delivery). We set out to determine whether this vaccine (with and without a molecular adjuvant DNA Encoded Immunostimulator-Labile Toxin (DEI-LT)) could protect subjects from a controlled influenza virus challenge.
METHODS:
Healthy adult subjects were screened for susceptibility to infection with influenza A/H3 Panama/2007/99 then vaccinated with 4?g Trivalent influenza DNA vaccine, 2mcg Trivalent influenza DNA vaccine plus DEI-LT or placebo. Safety and serological responses to vaccination were assessed and on Day 56 subjects were challenged with A/H3 Panama/2007/99 virus.
RESULTS:
Vaccination with 4mcg Trivalent or 2?g Trivalent/DEI-LT was well tolerated and induced antibody responses to two of the three influenza virus vaccine strains. Post challenge, subjects in the 4mcg Trivalent group (N=27) showed reductions in disease symptoms and viral shedding compared to placebo (N=27), with an overall vaccine efficacy of 41% (95% confidence interval (CI)=?1.5, 67.7) for 'Any illness with or without fever' and 53% for 'Upper respiratory tract infection' (95% CI=8.0, 77.7).
CONCLUSION:
It was concluded that PMED vaccination with 4mcg Trivalent influenza DNA vaccine was safe and elicited immunological responses that protected human subjects from influenza; this is the first report of protection of human subjects from disease by DNA vaccination.
PMID: 19368793 [PubMed - in process]
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