Efficacy of live attenuated and inactivated influenza vaccines among children in rural India : A 2-year, randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Influenza is a cause of febrile acute respiratory infection (FARI) in India; however, few influenza vaccine trials have been conducted in India. We assessed absolute and relative efficacy of live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) and inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) among children aged 2 to 10 years in rural India through a randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted over 2 years.

METHODS AND FINDINGS: In June 2015, children were randomly allocated to LAIV, IIV, intranasal placebo, or inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in a 2:2:1:1 ratio. In June 2016, vaccination was repeated per original allocation. Overall, 3,041 children received LAIV (n = 1,015), IIV (n = 1,010), nasal placebo (n = 507), or IPV (n = 509). Mean age of children was 6.5 years with 20% aged 9 to 10 years. Through weekly home visits, nasal and throat swabs were collected from children with FARI and tested for influenza virus by polymerase chain reaction. The primary outcome was laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated FARI; vaccine efficacy (VE) was calculated using modified intention-to-treat (mITT) analysis by Cox proportional hazards model (PH) for each year. In Year 1, VE was 40.0% (95% confidence interval (CI) 25.2 to 51.9) for LAIV and 59.0% (95% CI 47.8 to 67.9) for IIV compared with controls; relative efficacy of LAIV compared with IIV was -46.2% (95% CI -88.9 to -13.1). In Year 2, VE was 51.9% (95% CI 42.0 to 60.1) for LAIV and 49.9% (95% CI 39.2 to 58.7) for IIV; relative efficacy of LAIV compared with IIV was 4.2% (95% CI -19.9 to 23.5). No serious adverse vaccine-attributable events were reported. Study limitations include differing dosage requirements for children between nasal and injectable vaccines (single dose of LAIV versus 2 doses of IIV) in Year 1 and the fact that immunogenicity studies were not conducted.

CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we found that LAIV and IIV vaccines were safe and moderately efficacious against influenza virus infection among Indian children.

TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinical Trials Registry of India CTRI/2015/06/005902.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

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PLoS medicine - 18(2021), 4 vom: 30. Apr., Seite e1003609

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Krishnan, Anand [VerfasserIn]
Dar, Lalit [VerfasserIn]
Saha, Siddhartha [VerfasserIn]
Narayan, Venkatesh Vinayak [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Rakesh [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Ramesh [VerfasserIn]
Amarchand, Ritvik [VerfasserIn]
Dhakad, Shivram [VerfasserIn]
Chokker, Reshmi [VerfasserIn]
Choudekar, Avinash [VerfasserIn]
Gopal, Giridara [VerfasserIn]
Choudhary, Aashish [VerfasserIn]
Potdar, Varsha [VerfasserIn]
Chadha, Mandeep [VerfasserIn]
Lafond, Kathryn E [VerfasserIn]
Lindstrom, Stephen [VerfasserIn]
Widdowson, Marc-Alain [VerfasserIn]
Jain, Seema [VerfasserIn]

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Influenza Vaccines
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Vaccines, Attenuated
Vaccines, Inactivated

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Date Completed 11.08.2021

Date Revised 11.08.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

CTRI: CTRI/2015/06/005902

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pmed.1003609

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM324679823