Safety and immunogenicity of SCB-2019, an adjuvanted, recombinant SARS-CoV-2 trimeric S-protein subunit COVID-19 vaccine in healthy 12–17 year-old adolescents

ABSTRACT We previously demonstrated efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate, SCB-2019, in adults in the SPECTRA phase 2/3 efficacy study. We extended the study to include 1278 healthy 12–17-year-old adolescents in Belgium, Colombia and the Philippines who received either two doses of SCB-2019 or placebo 21 days apart, to assess immunogenicity as neutralizing antibodies against prototype SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern, and safety and reactogenicity as solicited and unsolicited adverse events with a comparator group of young adults (18–25 years). In participants with no evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection SCB-2019 immunogenicity in adolescents was non-inferior to that in young adults; respective geometric mean neutralizing titers (GMT) against prototype SARS-CoV-2 14 days after the second vaccination were 271 IU/mL (95% CI: 211–348) and 144 IU/mL (116–178). Most adolescents (1077, 84.3%) had serologic evidence of prior SAR-CoV-2 exposure at baseline; in these seropositive adolescents neutralizing GMTs increased from 173 IU/mL (135–122) to 982 IU/mL (881–1094) after the second dose. Neutralizing titers against Delta and Omicron BA SARS-CoV-2 variants were also increased, most notably in those with prior exposure.SCB-2019 vaccine was well tolerated with generally mild or moderate, transient solicited and unsolicited adverse events that were comparable in adolescent vaccine and placebo groups except for injection site pain – reported after 20% of SCB-2019 and 7.3% of placebo injections. SCB-2019 vaccine was highly immunogenic against SARS-CoV-2 prototype and variants in adolescents, especially in those with evidence of prior exposure, with comparable immunogenicity to young adults.Clinical trial registration EudraCT 2020-004272-17;<jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://ClinicalTrials.gov">ClinicalTrials.gov</jats:ext-link><jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="clintrialgov" xlink:href="NCT04672395">NCT04672395</jats:ext-link>..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lopez, Pio [VerfasserIn]
Bravo, Lulu [VerfasserIn]
Buntinx, Erik [VerfasserIn]
Borja-Tabora, Charissa [VerfasserIn]
Velasquez, Hector [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez, Edith Johana [VerfasserIn]
Rodriquez, Camilo A. [VerfasserIn]
Carlos, Josefina [VerfasserIn]
Montellano, May Emmeline B. [VerfasserIn]
Alberto, Edison R. [VerfasserIn]
Salvani-Bautista, Milagros [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Yung [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Branda [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Han, Htay Htay [VerfasserIn]
Baccarini, Carmen [VerfasserIn]
Smolenov, Igor [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.02.22.23286317

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XBI038790939