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Immune responses against recombinant poxvirus vaccines that express full-length lyssavirus glycoprotein genes
Thesis (PhD (Microbiology))--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/28113 Immune responses against recombinant poxvirus vaccines that express full-length lyssavirus glycoprotein genes Nel, Louis Hendrik s98005899@tuks.co.za Weyer, Jacqueline Rabies virus (RABV) Rabies in animals-vaccination Ir genes Rabies vaccines Vaccines research Immune response Recombinant poxviruses Glycoproteins Rabies vaccination UCTD Thesis (PhD (Microbiology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. Rabies is a fatal but preventable neurotropic disease of potentially all mammals. The disease is caused by lyssaviruses. Rabies is recognized as the 10th most common lethal infectious disease in the world, rendering it one of the most feared zoonotic diseases known to man. Nevertheless, rabies can be prevented by application of pre- or post exposure treatments. Rabies vaccines have been available since the time of Pasteur, more that one hundred years ago. Since, vaccine research focused on the development of safer and more effective vaccines. Topics of current interest in the field of rabies vaccinology were addressed in this study. A primary concern regarding the disease is human mortalities, in the range of 60 000, reported every year. Most of these are linked to exposure to rabid dogs. In addition, a great number of post exposure treatments are administered each year at great costs. Despite availability of efficacious biologics, several factors influence the optimal use and accessibility of these agents in the countries of interest, with cost and availability being the major contributing factors. A proven approach is mass oral vaccination of target animals, such as dogs, which indirectly infers protection to susceptible hosts, including man. Currently available vaccines present several disadvantages of use though, including issues of safety or doubtful stability. Safer but effective alternative vaccines that could be used in oral baits would be valuable. Here the use of two candidate host restricted poxvirus vaccine vectors were explored, particularly also in regard to oral innocuity. The construction, convenient isolation and use of a recombinant Lumpy skin disease virus (Neethling strain) expressing rabies virus glycoprotein in a mouse model were investigated. In addition, a recombinant Modified Vaccinia virus Ankara expressing rabies virus glycoprotein was prepared and tested as a vaccine in mice, dogs and raccoons. In both cases it was clear that the severe attenuation of these viruses did affect the efficacy of the recombinant vaccines in the non-permissive hosts. With the recombinant MVA a clear dosage effect could be shown, and equivalent humoral responses could only be attained at much higher titers of vaccine virus as with replication competent counterparts. Secondly, the cross-protection of rabies vaccines across the spectrum of lyssaviruses was addressed. Lyssaviruses can be divided into two groups based on sequence analysis and pathogenesis. Viruses belonging to the so-called phylogroup II, are the Mokola, Lagos and West Caucasian Bat viruses. Classic rabies biologics fail to fully protect against the viruses attributed to a lack of cross-neutralization. Here, cross-protection and cross-reactive immune responses induced by recombinant vaccinia viruses expressing rabies, Mokola or West Caucasian Bat virus glycoproteins, in single or dual combinations, were investigated. As expected, there was a lack of cross-protection of rabies and Mokola glycoprotein vaccines. There was also a clear lack of cross-protection of West Caucasian Bat virus glycoprotein vaccine and rabies and Mokola viruses. The dual antigen expressing vaccines did not appear to offer any additional protective effect in the tested model. The Mokola virus glycoprotein vaccines induced neutralizing antibody responses that significantly cross-neutralized Lagos Bat virus. Microbiology and Plant Pathology unrestricted 2013-09-07T12:54:11Z 2006-09-22 2013-09-07T12:54:11Z 2006-05-02 2006 2006-09-22 Thesis Weyer, J 2006, Immune responses against recombinant poxvirus vaccines that express full-length lyssavirus glycoprotein genes, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28113 > http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28113 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09222006-123129/ © 2006, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Rabies virus (RABV) Rabies in animals-vaccination Ir genes Rabies vaccines Vaccines research Immune response Recombinant poxviruses Glycoproteins Rabies vaccination UCTD Immune responses against recombinant poxvirus vaccines that express full-length lyssavirus glycoprotein genes |
| title | Immune responses against recombinant poxvirus vaccines that express full-length lyssavirus glycoprotein genes |
| title_full | Immune responses against recombinant poxvirus vaccines that express full-length lyssavirus glycoprotein genes |
| title_fullStr | Immune responses against recombinant poxvirus vaccines that express full-length lyssavirus glycoprotein genes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Immune responses against recombinant poxvirus vaccines that express full-length lyssavirus glycoprotein genes |
| title_short | Immune responses against recombinant poxvirus vaccines that express full-length lyssavirus glycoprotein genes |
| title_sort | immune responses against recombinant poxvirus vaccines that express full length lyssavirus glycoprotein genes |
| topic | Rabies virus (RABV) Rabies in animals-vaccination Ir genes Rabies vaccines Vaccines research Immune response Recombinant poxviruses Glycoproteins Rabies vaccination UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28113 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09222006-123129/ |