Protective Efficacy of Inhaled BCG Vaccination Against Ultra-Low Dose Aerosol M. tuberculosis Challenge in Rhesus Macaques
White, Andrew D. (National Infection Service (Salisbury, Regne Unit))
Sarfas, Charlotte (National Infection Service (Salisbury, Regne Unit))
Sibley, Laura S. (National Infection Service (Salisbury, Regne Unit))
Gullick, Jennie (National Infection Service (Salisbury, Regne Unit))
Clark, Simon (National Infection Service (Salisbury, Regne Unit))
Rayner, Emma (National Infection Service (Salisbury, Regne Unit))
Gleeson, Fergus (The Churchill Hospital, Headington, UK)
Català, Martí (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol. Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol)
Nogueira, Isabel (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol. Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol)
Cardona, Pere-Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia)
Vilaplana, Cristina (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol. Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol)
Dennis, Mike J. (National Infection Service (Salisbury, Regne Unit))
Williams, Ann (National Infection Service (Salisbury, Regne Unit))
Sharpe, Sally A. (National Infection Service (Salisbury, Regne Unit))

Date:	2020
Abstract:	Ten million cases of tuberculosis (TB) were reported in 2018 with a further 1. 5 million deaths attributed to the disease. Improved vaccination strategies are urgently required to tackle the ongoing global TB epidemic. In the absence of a validated correlate of protection, highly characterised pre-clinical models are required to assess the protective efficacy of new vaccination strategies. In this study, we demonstrate the application of a rhesus macaque ultra-low dose (ULD) aerosol M. tuberculosis challenge model for the evaluation of TB vaccination strategies by directly comparing the immunogenicity and efficacy of intradermal (ID) and aerosol BCG vaccination delivered using a portable vibrating mesh nebulizer (VMN). Aerosol- and ID-delivered Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) induced comparable frequencies of IFN-γ spot forming units (SFU) measured in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) by ELISpot, although the induction of IFN-γ SFU was significantly delayed following aerosol immunisation. This delayed response was also apparent in an array of secreted pro-inflammatory and chemokine markers, as well as in the frequency of antigen-specific cytokine producing CD4 and CD8 T-cells measured by multi-parameter flow cytometry. Interrogation of antigen-specific memory T-cell phenotypes revealed that vaccination-induced CD4 and CD8 T-cell populations primarily occupied the central memory (TCM) and transitional effector memory (TransEM) phenotype, and that the frequency of CD8 TCM and TransEM populations was significantly higher in aerosol BCG-vaccinated animals in the week prior to M. tuberculosis infection. The total and lung pathology measured following M. tuberculosis challenge was significantly lower in vaccinated animals relative to the unvaccinated control group and pathology measured in extra-pulmonary tissues was significantly reduced in aerosol BCG-vaccinated animals, relative to the ID-immunised group. Similarly, significantly fewer viable M. tuberculosis CFU were recovered from the extra-pulmonary tissues of aerosol BCG-vaccinated macaques relative to unvaccinated animals. In this study, a rhesus macaque ULD M. tuberculosis aerosol challenge model was applied as a refined and sensitive system for the evaluation of TB vaccine efficacy and to confirm that aerosol BCG vaccination delivered by portable VMN can confer a significant level of protection that is equivalent, and by some measures superior, to intradermal BCG vaccination.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Tuberculosis ; BCG ; Vaccine ; Non-human primate ; Macaque ; Aerosol vaccination ; Immunogenicity ; T-cell memory
Published in:	Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12 (april 2020) , ISSN 1999-4923

DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12050394
PMID: 32344890

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