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Trial reportInfection and immunity2001

Safety and immunogenicity of oral inactivated whole-cell Helicobacter pylori vaccine with adjuvant among volunteers with or without subclinical infection.

K L Kotloff, M B Sztein, S S Wasserman, G A Losonsky, S C DiLorenzo, R I Walker

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Trial report in Infection and immunity, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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71citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 199 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

K L KotloffDivision of Infectious Disease and Tropical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA. kkotloff@medicine.umaryland.edu
M B Sztein
S S Wasserman
G A Losonsky
S C DiLorenzo
R I Walker
Hospital for Tropical Diseases · VNGraphic Science (United Kingdom) · GBUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Helicobacter pylori infection of the gastric mucosa can be found in approximately 50% of the world's population and is associated with a range of pathology, including peptic ulcer, atrophic gastritis, and gastric cancer. To explore immunization as a strategy for preventing and treating H. pylori-associated disease, we assessed the safety and immunogenicity in healthy adults of a formalin-inactivated, oral H. pylori whole-cell (HWC) vaccine, administered with or without mutant Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin (LT(R192G)) as a mucosal adjuvant. In a dose-response study, 23 subjects with or without H. pylori infection were vaccinated with either 2.5 x 10(6) HWC, 2.5 x 10(8) HWC, or 2.5 x 10(10) HWC, plus 25 microg of LT(R192G). Thereafter, a randomized study was conducted in which 18 H. pylori-infected subjects were assigned, in a double-blind fashion, to receive either 2.5 x 10(10) HWC plus placebo-adjuvant, placebo-vaccine plus 25 microg of LT(R192G), placebo-vaccine plus placebo-adjuvant, or 2.5 x 10(10) HWC plus 25 microg of LT(R192G). Diarrhea (six subjects), low-grade fever (five subjects), and vomiting (two subjects) were observed, usually after the first dose. Significant rises in geometric mean mucosal (fecal and salivary) anti-HWC immunoglobulin A antibodies occurred among H. pylori-infected and uninfected subjects following inoculation with 2.5 x 10(10) HWC plus 25 microg of LT(R192G). Moreover, among H. pylori-negative volunteers, this regimen induced significant lymphoproliferative responses in 5 of 10 subjects and gamma interferon production responses to H. pylori sonicate in 7 of 10 subjects. There was no evidence that vaccination eradicated H. pylori in infected volunteers. These results suggest that it is possible to stimulate mucosal and systemic immune responses in humans to H. pylori antigens by using an HWC vaccine.

Indexed as

Escherichia coli ProteinsVaccinationAdjuvants, ImmunologicAdministration, OralAdolescentAdultAntibodies, BacterialBacterial ToxinsBacterial VaccinesDouble-Blind MethodEnterotoxinsEscherichia coliHelicobacter InfectionsHelicobacter pyloriHumansImmunity, MucosalAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntibodies, BacterialBacterial ToxinsBacterial VaccinesEnterotoxinsEscherichia coli Proteinsheat-labile enterotoxin, E coliInterferon-gammaInterleukin-5Vaccines, Attenuated

Identifiers

PMID11349017
PMCPMC98341
OpenAlexW2125437451

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