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Live-attenuated respiratory syncytial virus vaccine with deletion of RNA synthesis regulatory protein M2-2 and cold passage mutations is overattenuated

  • Coleen K. Cunningham
  • , Ruth Karron
  • , Petronella Muresan
  • , Elizabeth J. McFarland
  • , Charlotte Perlowski
  • , Jennifer Libous
  • , Bhagvanji Thumar
  • , Devasena Gnanashanmugam
  • , Jack Moye
  • , Elizabeth Schappell
  • , Emily Barr
  • , Vivian Rexroad
  • , Mariam Aziz
  • , Jaime Deville
  • , Richard Rutstein
  • , Lijuan Yang
  • , Cindy Luongo
  • , Peter Collins
  • , Ursula Buchholz
  • Duke University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Harvard University
  • University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • FHI 360
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Rush University Medical Center
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Abstract

Background. The live respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) candidate vaccine LIDcpδM2-2 is attenuated through deletion of M2-2 and 5 cold-passage mutations. Methods. RSV-seronegative children aged 6-24 months received a single intranasal dose of 105 plaque-forming units (PFU) of LIDcpδM2-2 or placebo. RSV serum antibodies, vaccine infectivity, and reactogenicity were assessed. Results. Four of 11 (36%) vaccinees shed vaccine virus with median peak titers of 1.6 log10 PFU/mL by quantitative culture and 4.5 log10 copies/mL by polymerase chain reaction; 45% had =4-fold rise in serum-neutralizing antibodies. Respiratory symptoms or fever were common in vaccinees (64%) and placebo recipients (6/6, 100%).

Original languageEnglish
Article numberofz212
JournalOpen Forum Infectious Diseases
Volume6
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 3 2019

Keywords

  • Immunogenicity
  • Live-attenuated viral vaccine
  • Neutralizing antibodies
  • Pediatric RSV vaccine
  • RNA regulatory protein M2-2
  • Respiratory syncytial virus

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