Publication: Clinical trial of an oral live shigella sonnei vaccine candidate, WRSS1, in Thai adults
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2016-07-01
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Mahidol University
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Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. Vol.23, No.7 (2016), 564-575
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Punnee Pitisuttithum, Dilara Islam, Supat Chamnanchanunt, Nattaya Ruamsap, Patchariya Khantapura, Jaranit Kaewkungwal, Chatporn Kittitrakul, Viravarn Luvira, Jittima Dhitavat, Malabi M. Venkatesan, Carl J. Mason, Ladaporn Bodhidatta Clinical trial of an oral live shigella sonnei vaccine candidate, WRSS1, in Thai adults. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. Vol.23, No.7 (2016), 564-575. doi:10.1128/CVI.00665-15 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/43001
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Clinical trial of an oral live shigella sonnei vaccine candidate, WRSS1, in Thai adults
Abstract
© Copyright 2016, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. Live attenuated Shigella sonnei vaccine candidate WRSS1, previously tested in U.S. and Israeli volunteers, was evaluated in a population of adult Thai volunteers in which the organism is endemic. In a randomized placebo-controlled, double-blind design, inpatient participants received a single oral dose of 1.6104 CFU of WRSS1. The vaccine was generally well tolerated, with equal numbers of vaccinees and placebo controls showing mild symptoms. Only 3 of 13 vaccinees (23%) had culture-positive stools, while a total of 9 vaccinees were positive by PCR. Lack of vaccine shedding in volunteers correlated with lack of clinical symptoms and immune responses, just as the duration of fecal shedding correlated directly with stronger immune responses. Two months following immunization, 10 vaccinees and 10 newly recruited naive controls received a challenge dose of 1,670 CFU of virulent S. sonnei strain 53G. This dose had previously demonstrated a 75% attack rate for dysentery in Thai volunteers. However, in this study the attack rate for dysentery in naive controls after challenge was 20%. Based on clinical record summaries, 3 vaccinees and 5 naive controls experienced clinically relevant illness (diarrhea/dysentery/fever/shigellosis), and a 40% vaccine efficacy was calculated. When these data are compared to those for the performance of this vaccine candidate in more naive populations, it is clear that a single oral dose of WRSS1 at 104 CFU failed to achieve its full potential in a population in which the organism is endemic. Higher doses and/or repeated immunizations may contribute to improved vaccine shedding and consequent elevation of protective immune responses in a population in which the organism is endemic. (The study has been registered at ClinicalTrials.gov under registration no. NCT01080716.).