Effect of passive immunization on immunogenicity and protective efficacy of vaccination against a Mexican low‐pathogenic avian H5N2 influenza virus

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses

Heather L. Forrest¹  Alejandro Garcia²  Angela Danner¹  Jon P. Seiler¹  Kimberly Friedman¹  Robert G. Webster¹ 

[1] Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA;Laboratorios Avilab, Loma Morad 7652 Col. Lomas del Manantial, Tonala, Jalisco, Mexico

关键词: avian influenza;    H5N2;    immunosuppression;    maternal immunity;    Mexico;    vaccine;   

DOI  :  10.1111/irv.12140

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

Abstract

Background

Despite the use of vaccines, low-pathogenic (LP) H5N2 influenza viruses have continued to circulate and evolve in chickens in Mexico since 1993, giving rise to multiple genetic variants. Antigenic drift is partially responsible for the failure to control H5N2 influenza by vaccination; the contribution of maternal antibodies to this problem has received less attention.

Methods

We investigated the effect of different antisera on the efficacy of vaccination and whether booster doses of vaccine can impact immune suppression.

Results

While single doses of inactivated oil emulsion vaccine to currently circulating H5N2 influenza viruses provide partial protection from homologous challenge, chickens that receive high-titer homologous antisera intraperitoneally before vaccination showed effects ranging from added protection to immunosuppression. Post-infection antisera were less immunosuppressive than antisera obtained from field-vaccinated chickens. Homologous, post-infection chicken antisera provided initial protection from virus challenge, but reduced the induction of detectable antibody responses. Homologous antisera from field-vaccinated chickens were markedly immunosuppressive, annulling the efficacy of the vaccine and leaving the chickens as susceptible to infection as non-vaccinated birds. Booster doses of vaccine reduced the immunosuppressive effects of the administered sera.

Conclusion

Vaccine efficacy against LP H5N2 in Mexico can be severely reduced by maternal antibodies. Source-dependent antisera effects offer the possibility of further elucidation of the immunosuppressive components involved.

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