A live attenuated bovine parainfluenza virus type 3 vaccine is safe, infectious, immunogenic, and phenotypically stable in infants and children

Ruth A. Karron, Peter F. Wright, Susan L. Hall, Mamodikoe Makhene, Juliette Thompson, Barbara A. Burns, Sharon Tollefson, Mark C. Steinhoff, Modena H. Wilson, Denos O. Harris, Mary Lou Clements, Brian R. Murphy

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Abstract

The safety, infectivity, immunogenicity, transmissibility, and phenotypic stability of an intranasal bovine parainfluenza virus type 3 (BPIV-3) candidate vaccine was evaluated in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Of human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV-3)-seronegative children, 92% were infected, and 92% developed a serum hemagglutination-inhibiting (HAI) antibody response to BPIV-3 and 61% to HPIV-3. Geometric mean HAI titers were 1:40 to BPIV-3 and 1:16 to HPIV-3. In studies to evaluate vaccine transmissibility, none of 14 placebo recipients in close contact with 14 vaccinees shed BPIV-3. BPIV-3 isolates from seronegative vaccinees retained the attenuation phenotype when tested in rhesus monkeys. Although it is difficult to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of such a vaccine in an open population of children who frequently become infected with HPIV-3, it appears that the live BPIV-3 vaccine is attenuated, infectious, immunogenic, poorly transmissible, and phenotypically stable and warrants further evaluation as a candidate vaccine in infants and children.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1107-1114
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Infectious Diseases
Volume171
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1995

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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