1. A Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine From India Induces Durable and Cross-protective Immunity Against Temporally and Spatially Wide-ranging Global Field Strains.
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Singh, Anit, Mitra, Monjori, Sampath, Gadey, Venugopal, P., Venkateswara, J., Rao, Krishnamurthy, B., Gupta, Mukesh Kumar, Krishna, S. Sri, Sudhakar, B., Bhuvaneswara, N., Kaushik, Yashpal, Gopinathan, K., Hegde, Nagendra R., Gore, Milind M., Mohan, V. Krishna, and Ella, Krishna M.
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JAPANESE B encephalitis vaccines ,SEROCONVERSION ,GENOTYPES ,IMMUNE response - Abstract
Background. Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a vaccine-preventable acute disease. We report the results of a phase 2/3 trial of JENVAC, a Vero cell-derived vaccine developed using an Indian strain of JE virus (JEV). Methods. JENVAC was administered in 2 doses 28 days apart, and immunogenicity was compared to that from a single dose of SA-14-14-2, the only approved JE vaccine and regimen at the time in India. Results. After both the doses, seroconversion and seroprotection were >90% for JENVAC. For SA-14-14-2, seroconversion and seroprotection were 57.69% and 77.56%, respectively, on day 28 and 39.74% and 60.26%, respectively, on day 56. The geometric mean titers at day 28 and day 56 were 145.04 and 460.53, respectively, for JENVAC and 38.56 and 25.29, respectively, for SA-14-14-2.With a single dose of JENVAC, seroprotection titers lasted at least 12 months in >80% of the subjects. Following receipt of 2 doses, 61.17% of subjects retained seroprotection titers at 24 months, and immunogenicity criteria were higher than that for SA-14-14-2 at 12, 18, and 24 months each. Sera from JENVAC subjects neutralized JEV genotypes I, II, III, and IV equally well. Adverse events were not significantly different between the 2 vaccines. Conclusions. JENVAC elicits long-lasting, broadly protective immunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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