Abstract
Background: This study examined the transmissibility between young children of an intranasally administered live attenuated human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV3)-cp45 vaccine candidate. Methods: Eighty subjects were enrolled in playgroups among whom there was at least one infected vaccinee in close contact with a seronegative placebo recipient over 21 days without a confounding infection with wtHPIV3. Following vaccination viral cultures were obtained on nine occasions to detect shedding and transmission of HPIV3cp45. Serum antibody titers were measured before and 7 weeks after vaccination. Results: No child fulfilled the criteria for transmission of HPIV3cp45 giving a risk of transmission of 0.04 (95% CI 0.01-0.19), hence establishing that HPIV3cp45 is less infectious than wtHPIV3 and risk of transmission is not a limitation to further clinical development of this vaccine candidate.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2432-2439 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Vaccine |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 13 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 20 2006 |
Keywords
- Immunogenicity
- Live-attenuated
- Parainfluenza virus type 3
- Safety
- Transmissibility
- Vaccine
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Molecular Medicine
- General Immunology and Microbiology
- General Veterinary
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Infectious Diseases