A Bivalent Meningococcal B Vaccine in Adolescents and Young Adults

BackgroundMenB-FHbp is a licensed meningococcal B vaccine targeting factor H-binding protein. Two phase 3 studies assessed the safety of the vaccine and its immunogenicity against diverse strains of group B meningococcus.MethodsWe randomly assigned 3596 adolescents (10 to 18 years of age) to receive MenB-FHbp or hepatitis A virus vaccine and saline and assigned 3304 young adults (18 to 25 years of age) to receive MenB-FHbp or saline at baseline, 2 months, and 6 months. Immunogenicity was assessed in serum bactericidal assays that included human complement (hSBAs). We used 14 meningococcal B test strains that expressed vaccine-heterologous factor H-binding proteins representative of meningococcal B epidemiologic diversity; an hSBA titer of at least 1:4 is the accepted correlate of protection. The five primary end points were the proportion of participants who had an increase in their hSBA titer for each of 4 primary strains by a factor of 4 or more and the proportion of those who had an hSBA titer at least as high as the lower limit of quantitation (1:8 or 1:16) for all 4 strains combined after dose 3. We also assessed the hSBA responses to the primary strains after dose 2; hSBA responses to the 10 additional strains after doses 2 and 3 were assessed in a subgroup of participants only. Safety was assessed in participants who received at least one dose.ResultsIn the modified intention-to-treat population, the percentage of adolescents who had an increase in the hSBA titer by a factor of 4 or more against each primary strain ranged from 56.0 to 85.3% after dose 2 and from 78.8 to 90.2% after dose 3; the percentages of young adults ranged from 54.6 to 85.6% and 78.9 to 89.7%, after doses 2 and 3, respectively. Composite responses after doses 2 and 3 in adolescents were 53.7% and 82.7%, respectively, and those in young adults were 63.3% and 84.5%, respectively. Responses to the 4 primary strains were predictive of responses to the 10 additional strains. Most of those who received MenB-FHbp reported mild or moderate pain at the vaccination site.ConclusionsMenB-FHbp elicited bactericidal responses against diverse meningococcal B strains after doses 2 and 3 and was associated with more reactions at the injection site than the hepatitis A virus vaccine and saline. (Funded by Pfizer; ClinicalTrials.gov numbers, NCT01830855 and NCT01352845)..

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Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:377

Enthalten in:

The New England journal of medicine - 377(2017), 24, Seite 2349

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lars Ostergaard [VerfasserIn]
Timo Vesikari [Sonstige Person]
Judith Absalon [Sonstige Person]
Johannes Beeslaar [Sonstige Person]
Brian J Ward [Sonstige Person]
Shelly Senders [Sonstige Person]
Joseph J Eiden [Sonstige Person]
Kathrin U Jansen [Sonstige Person]
Annaliesa S Anderson [Sonstige Person]
Laura J York [Sonstige Person]
Thomas R Jones [Sonstige Person]
Shannon L Harris [Sonstige Person]
Robert O'Neill [Sonstige Person]
David Radley [Sonstige Person]
Roger Maansson [Sonstige Person]
Jean-Louis Prégaldien [Sonstige Person]
John Ginis [Sonstige Person]
Nina B Staerke [Sonstige Person]
John L Perez [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Adolescence
Antigens
Complement factor H
Factor H-binding protein
Hepatitis A
Immunization
Immunogenicity
Immunoglobulins
Meningitis
Pain
Proteins
Research & development--R&D
Strains (organisms)
Teenagers
Vaccination
Vaccines
Young adults

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doi:

10.1056/NEJMoa1614474

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OLC1999417860