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Recently, the incidence of reported pertussis cases of adults has dramatically increased in Japan. In the present study, we analyzed seven Bordetella pertussis isolates recovered from adults in Japan using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and sequencing of their antigenic and virulence-associated proteins, compared with those from children. PFGE analysis demonstrated that the adult strains...
This study examined the vaccine potential of the autotransporter protein BrkA of Bordetella pertussis in the sublethal intranasal murine respiratory challenge model of infection. Five different acellular pertussis (Pa) vaccines, containing different pertussis-component antigens but all comprizing diphtheria (D) and tetanus (T) toxoids, were tested. A two-pertussis-component DTPa vaccine containing...
In this study the development and evaluation of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) obtained from Bordetella pertussis as vaccines against pertussis disease is described. SDS-PAGE, immunoblot techniques and gel electrophoresis associated to tandem mass spectrometry were used to describe the composition of the OMVs obtained from B. pertussis Tohama CIP 8132 strain. These techniques revealed the presence...
Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of highly communicable respiratory infection whooping cough (pertussis) which remains one of the world's leading causes of vaccine-preventable deaths. In the present study, total soluble proteins extracted from two B. pertussis strains, Tohama I and the local isolate Saadet were separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and analyzed by Western blotting...
An international meeting on Bordetella pertussis assay standardization and harmonization was held at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, 19–20 July 2007. The goal of the meeting was to harmonize the immunoassays used for pertussis diagnostics and vaccine evaluation, as agreed upon by academic and government researchers, regulatory authorities, vaccine manufacturers,...
Despite more than 50 years of vaccination, whooping cough is still an endemic disease in the Netherlands with regular epidemic outbreaks. In the last 20 years, two periods of increased notifications were observed. The causes of the increased notifications in the first period, from 1983 to 1987, are contentious. At the time it was suggested to be a surveillance artifact, caused by changes in diagnostic...
In Finland, the whole-cell pertussis vaccine was replaced with acellular pertussis vaccine in the national immunisation schedule in 2005. Adolescent booster vaccinations were also included in the programme. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of these changes on the epidemiology and strain characteristics of Bordetella pertussis. From the national register, we first analysed all the...
Sweden was the only country in the world without any general pertussis vaccination when acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines were introduced. Since 1996 aP vaccines are given at the ages of 3, 5 and 12 months, with a 99% coverage, and until 2007 without a later booster. The long-term effects of aP vaccines, monitored within an enhanced surveillance project, were discussed at an international workshop...
Bordetella pertussis isolates not expressing Pertussis Toxin (PT) or Pertactin (PRN) have been collected, for the first time in 2007, in France, a highly vaccinated country with acellular vaccines. Non-expression was due to deletion of the entire ptx locus, to IS481 insertion in the prn gene or deletion of a part of this gene. Genome sequencing does not indicate any regions of differences when compared...
In Serbia, whole cell pertussis vaccine was introduced in 1957. Current composition of the vaccine has been used since 1985 and contains four autochthonous strains of Bordetella pertussis isolated from 1957 to 1984. To monitor changes in bacterial population, 70 isolates collected from 1953 to 2000 were studied together with the vaccine strains. The methods included serotyping of fimbriae (Fim), genotyping...
Bordetella parapertussis causes typical whooping cough, as does Bordetella pertussis. However, current commercial vaccines are ineffective against B. parapertussis. In an effort to develop vaccines that are effective in protecting against both B. pertussis and B. parapertussis, we examined the protective effects of vaccines prepared from whole-cells and from recombinant proteins derived from B. parapertussis...
Frequent occurrence of whooping cough in vaccinated populations suggests limited duration of vaccine-induced immunological memory. To investigate peculiarities in B cell memory specific for pertussis antigens P.69 pertactin (P.69 Prn), pertussis toxin (Ptx) and filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA), we monitored the induction and maintenance of specific serum IgG, long-lived bone marrow (BM)-derived plasma...
In an effort to devise a safer and effective pertussis acelullar vaccine, outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) were engineered to decrease their endotoxicity. The pagL gene from Bordetella bronchiseptica, which encodes a lipid A 3-deacylase, was expressed in Bordetella pertussis strain Tohama I. The resulting OMVs, designated OMVs BpPagL , contain tetra- instead of penta-acylated LOS, in addition...
Bordetella pertussis pertactin (Prn) is an important attachment factor and protective immunogen, which serves as a component in most acellular pertussis vaccines (APVs). Here, we over-expressed recombinant Prn (r-Prn) without an affinity tag using an Escherichia coli expression system. Compared to the native Prn (n-Prn) from B. pertussis, the recombinant protein showed a comparable reactivity in Western...
Several vaccines are available against pertussis, differing by the number of Bordetella pertussis antigens that they contain as well as their formulation. The GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (GSK Bio) tricomponent DTPa vaccine (DTPa3, Infanrix™), and the Sanofi-Pasteur (SP) five-component formulation (DTPa5, Pediacel™) were shown to have comparable short-term efficacy in clinical trials. However, potential...
After introduction of a mono-component vaccine, containing only pertussis toxoid (PT), the incidence of pertussis was significantly higher in the Gothenburg area among children during the period October 1, 1997 until end of 2006 compared to the Rest of Sweden where a vaccine containing PT and two other pertussis antigens was used. To investigate a possible cause of this difference, the Bordetella...
Whooping cough, caused by the gram negative pathogen Bordetella pertussis, is a worldwide acute respiratory disease that predominantly involves infants. In the present study, surface proteins of B. pertussis Tohama I and Saadet strains were identified by using 2DE followed by MALDI-TOF-MS/MS analysis and also geLC–MS/MS. With these approaches it was possible to identify 45 and 226 proteins, respectively...
The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the whole-cell pertussis vaccine produced locally and routinely used in Poland in the elimination of Bordetella parapertussis strains from the lungs and trachea of a mouse model. We found that the average protective effect against B. parapertussis in the lungs of mice immunized with the whole-cell pertussis vaccine (DTwP) was significantly...
The attenuated Bordetella pertussis BPZE1 vaccine strain represents an attractive platform for the delivery of heterologous vaccine candidates via the nasal route. The filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA) has been used to secrete or expose the foreign antigens at the bacterial surface. In this study, one, two and three copies of the Cys-containing ectodomain of matrix protein 2 (M2e) from influenza A virus...
Antigenic proteins whose expression is induced under iron starvation, an environmental condition that bacterial pathogens have to face during colonization, might be potential candidates for improved vaccine. By mean of immune proteomics we identified novel antigens of Bordetella pertussis maximally expressed under iron limitation. Among them, Bp1152 (named as IRP1-3) showed a particularly strong reaction...
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