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But some new measures are needed to deal with the pertussis resurgence. What about returning to the whole-cell vaccine, which is still used in many countries? Althouse has suggested that a way forward could be to vaccinate infants with a priming dose of the whole-cell vaccine.

However, Merkel points out that the side effects associated with the whole-cell vaccine are still problematic. Since , the UK has pioneered maternal vaccination as a way of reducing infections in infants [8].

Mothers vaccinated at least one week prior to delivery seem to pass on their immunity to vulnerable newborns. However, it is clear that new, more effective, vaccines are needed. An attenuated vaccine is an altered version of the live pathogen with substantially reduced virulence. Locht achieved this by genetically engineering the bacteria to eliminate, attenuate or inactivate three harmful toxins.

The new vaccine is administered intranasally, which he suggests helps to give a more natural and potent immunological response. BPZE1 seems to stimulate the local mucosal memory T-cell response that does not occur with the other vaccines. These are not subtle differences — this is night and day with respect to the impact of a potent mucosal response. ILiAD is now conducting a phase II clinical trial in the United States and, so far, the vaccine has shown a clean safety profile with none of the side effects seen with the whole-cell vaccine.

It hopes the vaccine could be available by as an adolescent and adult vaccine to replace current boosters. If we could vaccinate infants shortly after birth, before they leave the hospital, it would address the vast majority of infant mortality that occurs. That really would be a holy grail.

Lisa Morici, a microbiologist and associate professor at Tulane University, is working on an adjuvant for acellular whooping cough vaccine that could bolster its effectiveness. An adjuvant is an additional substance delivered with a vaccine that enhances the long-term immune response. The alum adjuvant currently used in many vaccines does not stimulate the correct T-cell response, so Morici and James McLachlan, an immunologist at Tulane University, have been using outer-membrane vesicles OMVs.

These are tiny lipid nanoparticles that are shed from bacterial membranes. OMVs are an emerging concept in the vaccine field. They are currently used in the meningococcal group B vaccine Bexsero, which was approved by the European Medicines Agency in Morici believes that understanding the inherent weakness of the acellular pertussis vaccine and improving on it could be the springboard for a new approach to vaccines.

As with the acellular pertussis vaccine, most vaccines stimulate antibody production that protects from the disease. But most pathogens that lack a vaccine, including those that cause malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, require the T-cell component — the wider immune response that, according to Morici, OMVs are able to elicit. Rubin believes that BPZE1 could eradicate pertussis altogether.

He compares its potential impact with the introduction of a new haemophilus influenzae type b Hib vaccine in the early s. Prior to this, Hib infections were a serious health problem, but the new vaccine made infections rare. In the short term, UK efforts are geared towards improving the rates of maternal vaccination by ensuring pregnant women are offered the vaccine at the optimal time at between 20 weeks and 32 weeks.

The public health message also needs to keep explaining the continued importance of the pertussis vaccine and the direct protection it offers for infants in particular. The epidemiology of nationally reported pertussis in the United States, — Clin Infect Dis ;ciy An update of the global burden of pertussis in children younger than 5 years: a modelling study.

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Our findings showed that, although rare, recurrent cases of pertussis can occur, and in 1 instance the second episode occurred as early as 89 days after onset of the first episode. The identification of recurrent cases of pertussis in children raises important questions about the duration and nature of immunity provided by natural infection in aP-vaccinated, and unvaccinated children.

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