M. - P.K.: We will have 50 million
doses of adjuvanted vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline.
We don't have a lot of studies to guide us how many
doses of adjuvant can you give at one time in one day safely and what are the health consequences of all those adjuvants.
Not exact matches
The two schedules alternating AS03 - and MF59 -
adjuvanted formulations led to lower geometric mean (average) titers (GMTs) than the group induced by two AS03 -
adjuvanted formulations but higher GMTs than two
doses of MF59 -
adjuvanted formulation.
After 2
doses of an H7N9 formulation containing 15 µg
of hemagglutinin given without
adjuvant, with AS03
adjuvant, or with MF59
adjuvant, the proportion achieving an hemagglutination inhibition antibody (HIA) titer
of 40 or higher was 2 percent without
adjuvant (n = 94), 84 percent with AS03
adjuvant (n = 96), and 57 percent with MF59
adjuvant (n = 92).
In a phase 2 trial that included nearly 1,000 adults, the AS03 and MF59
adjuvants (a component that improves immune response
of inactivated influenza vaccines) increased the immune responses to two
doses of an inactivated H7N9 influenza vaccine, with AS03 -
adjuvanted formulations inducing the highest amount
of antibody response, according to a study in the July 21 issue
of JAMA.
«Safety, immunogenicity
of two
doses of the HPV - 16 / 18 AS04
adjuvanted vaccine Cervarix.»
A recent study in the journal Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, showed that two
doses of the HPV - 16 / 18 AS04 -
adjuvanted vaccine Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline) are non-inferior to three -
doses in the current schedule.
Boosting the immune response by including
adjuvants, and delivering the vaccine under the skin instead
of into muscle, could help to lower the
dose required and cut costs, as could new kinds
of vaccine, he says.
Results
of EORTC trial 22921 show that compliance with
adjuvant chemotherapy was poor, and only 42.9 %
of the patients received the planned
dose within the scheduled time frame.
Sanofi Pasteur will give a total
of 100 million
doses, unadjuvanted to start with, and
adjuvanted later, once that is licensed.
However, scientists believe for practical use, these potential vaccines would require multiple
doses or the addition
of adjuvants, which enhance the immune response.
Adjuvants are increasingly used by the vaccine community and are essential components
of modern vaccines, particularly for their ability to enhance and bias immune responses and for their
dose - sparing properties.
Currently, lymphadenectomy is an eligibility requirement for cutting - edge
adjuvant therapy trials such as Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) 1404 (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02506153), which randomizes stage III melanoma patients to an anti — programmed death 1 antibody or standard -
of - care
adjuvant therapy (high -
dose interferon or high -
dose ipilimumab).
Short Research Communication The Factors Reducing Relative
Dose Intensity
of Cisplatin and Vinorelbine as
Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Ryo Inose, Katsuyuki Takahashi, Naruo Yoshimura, Tomoya Kawaguchi, Mitsutaka Takada, Katsuya Nagayama Oncomedicine 2018; 3: 9 - 14.
Similar to these projects, IDRI's subunit tuberculosis vaccine, ID93, also utilizes
adjuvants that induce a cell - mediated immune response, which is required for protection against M. tuberculosis infection in low
dose aerosol models
of TB.
Another proposed study will compare different
doses of protein and a different
adjuvant developed to try to induce higher and more durable antibody responses.