ReviewNPJ vaccines2021
Endogenous complement human serum bactericidal assay (enc-hSBA) for vaccine effectiveness assessments against meningococcal serogroup B.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Immunogenicity, Reactogenicity, and Safety of a Pentavalent Meningococcal ABCWY Vaccine in Adolescents and Young Adults Who Had Previously Received a Meningococcal ACWY Vaccine: A Phase 3, Randomized Controlled Clinical Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025Trial
- 4CMenB Breadth of Immune Response, Immunogenicity, and Safety: Results From a Phase 3 Randomized, Controlled, Observer Blind Study in Adolescents and Young Adults.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Trial
- Methods to evaluate the performance of a multicomponent meningococcal serogroup B vaccine.mSphere · 2025Review
- A Bioluminescence-Based Serum Bactericidal Assay to Detect Bactericidal Antibodies AgainstMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- 4CMenB journey to the 10-year anniversary and beyond.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Review
- High-Throughput Luminescence-Based Serum Bactericidal Assay Optimization and Characterization to Assess Human Sera Functionality Against MultipleInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Direct enhancement of viral neutralising antibody potency by the complement system: a largely forgotten phenomenon.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2024Review
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- Genetic Features of a Representative Panel of 110 Meningococcal B Isolates to Assess the Efficacy of Meningococcal B Vaccines.mSphere · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Immunogenicity of vaccines against meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) has been assessed pre-licensure with a human serum bactericidal activity assay (hSBA), tested against small numbers of strains. We report the qualification/validation of an alternative qualitative hSBA which uses endogenous complement (enc-hSBA) present in the vaccinee's serum. Serum samples were collected from adults pre-vaccination and post-vaccination with the 4-component MenB vaccine (4CMenB). A representative panel of invasive isolates and 4 antigen-specific indicator strains were used in qualification experiments. Each strain was tested in ≥3 experiments with pre/post-vaccination sera to evaluate intermediate precision. A 110-strain panel and the 4 indicator strains met qualification criteria, demonstrating assay precision. Assay robustness, specificity and sensitivity were demonstrated using the 4 indicator strains. Enc-hSBA is highly standardized, allows testing across large panels of epidemiologically-relevant MenB strains, and accounts for complement activity differences between vaccinees. Therefore, enc-hSBA enables a more accurate estimation of effectiveness for vaccines against MenB.
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