Meningococcal ACWYX Conjugate Vaccine in 2-to-29-Year-Olds in Mali and Gambia

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BACKGROUND: An effective, affordable, multivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine is needed to prevent epidemic meningitis in the African meningitis belt. Data on the safety and immunogenicity of NmCV-5, a pentavalent vaccine targeting the A, C, W, Y, and X serogroups, have been limited.

METHODS: We conducted a phase 3, noninferiority trial involving healthy 2-to-29-year-olds in Mali and Gambia. Participants were randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to receive a single intramuscular dose of NmCV-5 or the quadrivalent vaccine MenACWY-D. Immunogenicity was assessed at day 28. The noninferiority of NmCV-5 to MenACWY-D was assessed on the basis of the difference in the percentage of participants with a seroresponse (defined as prespecified changes in titer; margin, lower limit of the 96% confidence interval [CI] above -10 percentage points) or geometric mean titer (GMT) ratios (margin, lower limit of the 98.98% CI >0.5). Serogroup X responses in the NmCV-5 group were compared with the lowest response among the MenACWY-D serogroups. Safety was also assessed.

RESULTS: A total of 1800 participants received NmCV-5 or MenACWY-D. In the NmCV-5 group, the percentage of participants with a seroresponse ranged from 70.5% (95% CI, 67.8 to 73.2) for serogroup A to 98.5% (95% CI, 97.6 to 99.2) for serogroup W; the percentage with a serogroup X response was 97.2% (95% CI, 96.0 to 98.1). The overall difference between the two vaccines in seroresponse for the four shared serogroups ranged from 1.2 percentage points (96% CI, -0.3 to 3.1) for serogroup W to 20.5 percentage points (96% CI, 15.4 to 25.6) for serogroup A. The overall GMT ratios for the four shared serogroups ranged from 1.7 (98.98% CI, 1.5 to 1.9) for serogroup A to 2.8 (98.98% CI, 2.3 to 3.5) for serogroup C. The serogroup X component of the NmCV-5 vaccine generated seroresponses and GMTs that met the prespecified noninferiority criteria. The incidence of systemic adverse events was similar in the two groups (11.1% in the NmCV-5 group and 9.2% in the MenACWY-D group).

CONCLUSIONS: For all four serotypes in common with the MenACWY-D vaccine, the NmCV-5 vaccine elicited immune responses that were noninferior to those elicited by the MenACWY-D vaccine. NmCV-5 also elicited immune responses to serogroup X. No safety concerns were evident. (Funded by the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03964012.).

Errataetall:

CommentIn: N Engl J Med. 2023 Aug 10;389(6):577. - PMID 37590458

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:388

Enthalten in:

The New England journal of medicine - 388(2023), 21 vom: 25. Mai, Seite 1942-1955

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Haidara, Fadima C [VerfasserIn]
Umesi, Ama [VerfasserIn]
Sow, Samba O [VerfasserIn]
Ochoge, Magnus [VerfasserIn]
Diallo, Fatoumata [VerfasserIn]
Imam, Abdulazeez [VerfasserIn]
Traore, Youssouf [VerfasserIn]
Affleck, Lucy [VerfasserIn]
Doumbia, Moussa F [VerfasserIn]
Daffeh, Bubacarr [VerfasserIn]
Kodio, Mamoudou [VerfasserIn]
Wariri, Oghenebrume [VerfasserIn]
Traoré, Awa [VerfasserIn]
Jallow, Edrissa [VerfasserIn]
Kampmann, Beate [VerfasserIn]
Kapse, Dhananjay [VerfasserIn]
Kulkarni, Prasad S [VerfasserIn]
Mallya, Asha [VerfasserIn]
Goel, Sunil [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Pankaj [VerfasserIn]
Sarma, Annamraju D [VerfasserIn]
Avalaskar, Nikhil [VerfasserIn]
LaForce, F Marc [VerfasserIn]
Alderson, Mark R [VerfasserIn]
Naficy, Abdi [VerfasserIn]
Lamola, Steve [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Yuxiao [VerfasserIn]
Martellet, Lionel [VerfasserIn]
Hosken, Nancy [VerfasserIn]
Simeonidis, Evangelos [VerfasserIn]
Welsch, Jo Anne [VerfasserIn]
Tapia, Milagritos D [VerfasserIn]
Clarke, Ed [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical Trial, Phase III
Comparative Study
Equivalence Trial
Journal Article
Meningococcal Vaccines
Randomized Controlled Trial
Vaccines, Conjugate

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 31.05.2023

Date Revised 06.03.2024

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03964012

CommentIn: N Engl J Med. 2023 Aug 10;389(6):577. - PMID 37590458

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1056/NEJMoa2214924

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357265920