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ABSTRACT: Vaccination against oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) types is one key intervention for cervical cancer prevention. This follow-up study assessed the persistence of the systemic and mucosal immune responses together with the safety profile of the HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine administered to young women aged 10–25 years. Serum and cervicovaginal secretion (CVS) samples were collected at prespecified time-points during the 48-month follow-up period. Anti-HPV-16/18 antibody levels in serum and CVS were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). At Month 48, all subjects remained seropositive for serum anti-HPV-16 and -18 antibodies. As previously observed, anti-HPV-16 and -18 antibodies levels (ELISA Units/mL) were higher in subjects vaccinated at the age of 10–14 years (2862.2 and 940.8) compared to subjects vaccinated at the age of 15–25 years (1186.2 and 469.8). Moreover, anti-HPV-16 and -18 antibodies in CVS were still detectable for subjects aged 15–25 years (84.1% and 69.7%, respectively). There was a strong correlation between serum and CVS anti-HPV-16 and -18 antibodies levels (correlation coefficients = 0.84 and 0.90 at Month 48, respectively) supporting the hypothesis of transudation or exudation of serum immunoglobulin G antibodies through the cervical epithelium. The HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine had a clinically acceptable safety profile. In conclusion, this follow-up study shows that the HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine administered to preteen/adolescents girls and young women induces long-term systemic and mucosal immune response and has a clinically acceptable safety profile up to 4 years after the first vaccine dose.
International Journal of Cancer 10/2011; 129(9):2147 - 2157. · 5.44 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine (Cervarix®, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals) has been shown to induce a robust immune response in women aged 15-55 years (103514/NCT00196937). This follow-up study is the first report of persistence of immune response and safety profile through 48 months after vaccination in women aged 15-55 years. In this open-label, age-stratified Phase III study in Germany and Poland (105882/NCT00196937), healthy women aged 15-55 years received 3 doses of HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine at 0, 1, and 6 months. Anti-HPV-16/18 seropositivity rates and geometric mean antibody titers (GMTs) were assessed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in women aged 15-25 (n=168), 26-45 (n=186) and 46-55 years (n=177) from the time of first vaccination through 48 months. At Month 48, all subjects were seropositive for anti-HPV-16 antibodies and 99.4% were seropositive for anti-HPV-18. Antibody kinetics were as previously reported, with peak response at Month 7 followed by a gradual decline tending towards a plateau in all age groups. Anti-HPV-16/18 GMTs were sustained at Month 48 in all age groups, including women aged 46-55 years in whom GMTs were respectively 11-fold and 5-fold higher than natural infection levels. The vaccine exhibited a clinically acceptable safety profile in all age groups. In summary, the HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine induces high and sustained immune responses in women aged 15-55 years, with antibody levels remaining several-fold higher than natural infection levels for at least 4 years after the first vaccine dose.
Human vaccines 09/2011; 7(9):958-65. · 3.58 Impact Factor
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José Garcia-Sicilia,
Tino F Schwarz,
Alfonso Carmona,
Klaus Peters,
Jean-Elie Malkin,
Phu M Tran,
Ulrich Behre,
Enrique B Iturbe, Gregory Catteau,
Florence Thomas,
Kurt Dobbelaere,
Dominique Descamps,
Gary Dubin
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ABSTRACT: Many countries recommend human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in female adolescents at an age when other vaccines are routinely administered. This open, randomized, multicenter study (108464/NCT00426361) evaluated coadministration of HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine with diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis-inactivated poliovirus vaccine (dTpa-IPV).
Healthy females aged 10-18 years were randomized to receive HPV vaccine at months 0, 1, and 6 (n = 248), HPV vaccine coadministered with dTpa-IPV at month 0 and HPV vaccine at months 1 and 6 (n = 255), or dTpa-IPV at month 0 followed by HPV vaccine at months 1, 2, and 7 (n = 248). Immunogenicity was evaluated at months 0, 1, and 7 or 8 (depending on group). Vaccine reactogenicity and safety were also assessed.
Coadministered dTpa-IPV and HPV vaccine was noninferior to dTpa-IPV alone in terms of seroprotection against diphtheria (99.2% and 100%), tetanus (100% and 100%) and poliovirus types 1, 2, and 3 (> or = 99.6%), and geometric mean antibody concentrations (ELISA Units/mL) for pertussis toxoid (84 vs. 75), filamentous hemagglutinin (612 and 615) and pertactin (426 and 360) at month 1. Coadministered dTpa-IPV and HPV vaccine was noninferior to HPV vaccine alone in terms of seroconversion rates for HPV-16 (99.5% and 100%) and HPV-18 (99.5% and 100%) and geometric mean antibody titers (ELISA Units/mL) for HPV-16 (15,608 and 18,965) and HPV-18 (6,597 and 6,902) at month 7. Coadministration was generally well tolerated. The reactogenicity of dTpa-IPV and the first dose of HPV vaccine was similar.
Results from this study support coadministration of the HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine with dTpa-IPV vaccine in females aged 10-18 years.
Journal of Adolescent Health 02/2010; 46(2):142-51. · 3.33 Impact Factor