The Effect of Adjuvants of Different Groups on the Immunogenicity of Vaccines against Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome

Abstract

Effects of different classes of adjuvants (aluminum hydroxide, spherical protein particles, thermolabile В protein, low-endotoxic pyrogen-free lipopolysaccharide) have been studied in order to enhance the immunogenicity of inactivated vaccines against hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. The Puumala virus-based monovaccine and multivalent vaccine based on Puumala, Hantaan and Sochi viruses were analyzed, and BALB/c mice were used as an animal model. It was shown that low-endotoxic pyrogen-free lipopolysaccharide stimulated the production of virus-neutralizing antibodies and increased the vaccine stability during storage, which allows to reduce the antigenic load of the vaccine. Aluminum hydroxide slightly increased the production of T-cells immune response mediators and did not affect the neutralizing antibodies induction and vaccine stability. Despite the adjuvant effect, it was shown that spherical protein particles and thermolabile В protein were unacceptable for vaccines administered to humans due to the high protein load and toxic effects, respectively. hantavirases, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, inactivated vaccines, adjuvants, immune response The authors are grateful to Dr. O.V. Karpova (Department of Virology, Moscow State University) for providing the preparation of spherical particles, and to Dr. A.N. Noskov (Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow) for providing the preparation of the thermolabile enterotoxin B-subunit.