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Disparity in functional activity between serum anticapsular antibodies induced in adults by immunization with an investigational group A and C Neisseria meningitidis-diphtheria toxoid conjugate vaccine and by a polysaccharide vaccine.

Abstract
Polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccines elicit higher concentrations of serum anticapsular antibody in infants and children than do unconjugated polysaccharide vaccines. The conjugate-induced antibodies also have higher avidity and complement-mediated bactericidal activity. Similar vaccine-related differences in the magnitude or functional activity of antibody are observed infrequently in immunized adults. We compared the antibody responses of adults immunized with an investigational group A and C meningococcal conjugate vaccine to those elicited by an unconjugated meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine. Although there were no significant differences between the respective geometric mean bactericidal titers of the two vaccine groups, it took, on average, three- to fourfold higher concentrations of polysaccharide-induced serum anticapsular antibody to achieve 50% complement-mediated bacteriolysis than conjugate-induced antibody (P < 0.001 for groups A and C). At limiting doses, the polysaccharide-induced anticapsular antibodies also were less effective in conferring passive protection against meningococcal bacteremia in infant rats challenged with a group C strain (P < 0.04). The avidity index of the group C antibodies was higher in the conjugate vaccine group than in the polysaccharide vaccine group (P < 0.005). The disparities in the functional activity of the anticapsular antibodies elicited in adults by the two vaccines imply fundamental differences in the respective B-cell populations stimulated.
AuthorsShannon L Harris, Adam Finn, Dan M Granoff
JournalInfection and immunity (Infect Immun) Vol. 71 Issue 6 Pg. 3402-8 (Jun 2003) ISSN: 0019-9567 [Print] United States
PMID12761124 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Antibodies, Bacterial
  • Diphtheria Toxoid
  • Meningococcal Vaccines
  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial
  • Vaccines, Conjugate
Topics
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Bacterial (immunology)
  • Bacterial Capsules (immunology)
  • Diphtheria Toxoid (immunology)
  • Humans
  • Immunization
  • Meningococcal Vaccines (immunology)
  • Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup A (immunology)
  • Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup C (immunology)
  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial (immunology)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar
  • Vaccines, Conjugate (immunology)

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