Journal
VACCINES
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines9070748
Keywords
Rift Valley fever virus; cattle; subunit vaccine; efficacy
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Funding
- Department of Homeland Security
- Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD) [HSHQDC 16-A-B0006]
- AMP Core of the Center on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CEZID) of the National Institutes of Health [P20GM130448]
- Kansas State NBAF Transition Funds
- USDA, Agricultural Research Service
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RVFV is a mosquito-borne virus that causes diseases in animals and humans in Africa, with no licensed vaccine available for humans. However, a vaccine based on Gn and Gc glycoproteins has shown promising results in protecting cattle from the virus in experimental studies.
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic pathogen that causes periodic outbreaks of abortion in ruminant species and hemorrhagic disease in humans in sub-Saharan Africa. These outbreaks have a significant impact on veterinary and public health. Its introduction to the Arabian Peninsula in 2003 raised concerns of further spread of this transboundary pathogen to non-endemic areas. These concerns are supported by the presence of competent vectors in many non-endemic countries. There is no licensed RVF vaccine available for humans and only a conditionally licensed veterinary vaccine available in the United States. Currently employed modified live attenuated virus vaccines in endemic countries lack the ability for differentiating infected from vaccinated animals (DIVA). Previously, the efficacy of a recombinant subunit vaccine based on the RVFV Gn and Gc glycoproteins, derived from the 1977 human RVFV isolate ZH548, was demonstrated in sheep. In the current study, cattle were vaccinated subcutaneously with the Gn only, or Gn and Gc combined, with either one or two doses of the vaccine and then subjected to heterologous virus challenge with the virulent Kenya-128B-15 RVFV strain, isolated from Aedes mosquitoes in 2006. The elicited immune responses by some vaccine formulations (one or two vaccinations) conferred complete protection from RVF within 35 days after the first vaccination. Vaccines given 35 days prior to RVFV challenge prevented viremia, fever and RVFV-associated histopathological lesions. This study indicates that a recombinant RVFV glycoprotein-based subunit vaccine platform is able to prevent and control RVFV infections in target animals.
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