349 results about "Attenuated Live Vaccine" patented technology

A method is disclosed for inducing cell-mediated immunity against cellular antigens. More specifically, the invention provides for a method for inducing cytotoxic T-lymphocyte immunity against weak antigens, notably self-proteins. The method entails that antigen presenting cells are induced to present at least one CTL epitope of the weak antigen and at the same time presenting at least one foreign T-helper lymphocyte epitope. In a preferred embodiment, the antigen is a cancer specific antigen, e.g. PSM, Her2, or FGF8b. The method can be exercised by using traditional polypeptide vaccination, but also by using live attenuated vaccines or nucleic acid vaccination. The invention furthermore provides immunogenic analogues of PSM, Her2 and FGF8b, as well as nucleic acid molecules encoding these analogues. Also vectors and transformed cells are disclosed. The invention also provides for a method for identification of immunogenic analogues of weak or non-immunogenic antigens.

The invention provides an attenuated live vaccine strain for preventing pig-pig infection breeding and respiratory syndrome, a formulation thereof and a preparation method of the attenuated live vaccine strain and the formulation thereof. The attenuated live vaccine strain has obvious immunity protection effect on the pig-pig infection breeding and respiratory syndrome. The vaccine formulation also has long protection period and stable storage.

Improved vaccines which include a nucleotide sequence that encodes immunomodulating protein operably linked to regulatory elements are disclosed. The improved vaccines include DNA vaccines, recombinant vaccines for delivering foreign antigen and live attenuated vaccines. Methods of immunizing individuals are disclosed. Compositions for and methods of treating individuals with autoimmune diseases are disclosed.

Live-attenuated vaccines against Edwardsiella ictaluri or against Pasteurella piscicida are disclosed. Both vaccines are incapable of reversion to virulence, because both are made by deletion mutations in the aroA gene, the purA gene, or both. These vaccines may be used not only to vaccinate fish against Edwardsiella ictaluri or Pasteurela piscicida, but also to serve as vectors to present antigens from other pathogens to the fish, thereby serving as vaccines against other pathogens as well, with no risk of infection by reversion to the virulent form of the pathogen in which the antigen occurs naturally.

Described in this application are attenuated strains of avian influenza virus containing temperature sensitive mutations in addition to a genetic tag in the PB1 gene. The attenuated viruses are useful as avian and mammalian vaccine for protective immunity against homologous and heterologous lethal challenges with influenza virus. A genetically modified avian influenza virus backbone is described which can be used as a master donor strain for the generation of live attenuated vaccines for epidemic and pandemic influenza.

The present invention relates to a vaccine against infections caused by flavivirus. More particularly to the use of the YF vaccine virus (17D) to express at the level of its envelope, protein epitopes from other pathogens which will elicit a specific immune response to the parental pathogen.

Improved anti-HPV immunogens and nucleic acid molecules that encode them are disclosed. Immunogens disclosed include those having consensus HPV 18 E6 and E7. Pharmaceutical composition, recombinant vaccines comprising and live attenuated vaccines are disclosed as well methods of inducing an immune response in an individual against HPV are disclosed.

Improved anti-HCV immunogens and nucleic acid molecules that encode them are disclosed. Immunogens disclosed include those having consensus HCV genotype 1 a/1 b NS3 and NS4A. Pharmaceutical composition, recombinant vaccines comprising and live attenuated vaccines are disclosed as well methods of inducing an immune response in an individual against HCV are disclosed.

The present invention relates to hepatitis A vaccine, especially to a lyophilized attenuated hepatitis A vaccine which can be stored at ambient temperature for extended periods of time, and to a method for producing the same. The present invention further relates to a stabilizer for lyophilized live vaccine and its use in improving thermostability of lyophilized live vaccine during lyophilization processing and storage period after lyophilization.

The invention discloses a lentogenic CH60 strain of duck virual hepatitis virus. The lentogenic CH60 strain of the duck virual hepatitis virus is preserved in the China Center for Type Culture Collection of Wuhan University in China; and the preservation number is CCTCC NO: V201248. As the strain of duck virus hepatitis attenuated vaccine, the lentogenic CH60 strain of duck virual hepatitis virus provided by the invention is good in security and good in immunogenicity.

The invention relates to a marker-free gene deletion attenuated mutant strain of an Edwardsiella tarda wild strain. The marker-free gene deletion attenuated mutant strain is an attenuated live vaccine of an Edwardsiella tarda virulent strain, which deletes the chorismic acid synthase gene aroC of the Edwardsiella tarda virulent strain, three types of secretion system response element genes of eseB, escA, eseC and eseD and an endogenous plasmid, preferably, the Edwardsiella tarda virulent strain is an Edwardsiella tarda virulent strain EIB202 with the preservation number of CCTCC No:M208068; the endogenous plasmid is a plasmid of pEIB202; and the marker-free gene deletion attenuated mutant strain of the Edwardsiella tarda virulent strain is an attenuated strain WED with the preservation number of CCTCC No:M2010278. The invention also provides relevant preparations and application of the marker-free gene deletion attenuated mutant strain. The attenuated mutant strain or relevant preparations eliminate the potential environment and safety risk of products existing in the traditional attenuated live vaccines generally and is a safe, effective and economic vaccine aiming at Edwardsiella tarda diseases of cultured fishes.

The invention discloses a freeze-dried vaccine protective agent, a freeze-dried varicella attenuated live vaccine and preparation methods of the freeze-dried vaccine protective agent and the freeze-dried varicella attenuated live vaccine, belongs to the field of vaccine production and preparation processes, and solves the problem that an existing freeze-dried vaccine protective agent of a varicella vaccine contains gelatin, or contains dextranum and still contains human serum albumin even if the gelatin is removed, so that a potential hazard still exists in the safety of medication of the vaccine. The freeze-dried vaccine protective agent contains mycose, sodium glutamate, urea, L-arginine and a 199 culture medium, and does not contain macromolecular allergen ingredients such as gelatin, dextranum and human serum albumin; the bacterial endotoxin content is low; the varicella vaccine prepared by using the protective agent is low in endotoxin content and residual content of bovine serum albumin and antibiotics, good in stability, safe and effective; the main point is direct infection after passage; the cells are cleaned in the next day after infection, and are replaced with a serum-free maintenance fluid; the operation is simple; the cost is low; regular and uniform formation of cytopathy is facilitated; and the residual content of the bovine serum albumin can be greatly lowered.

The invention provides a synthetic method of N-2-hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride chitosan and a preparation method of Newcastle disease attenuated live vaccine-loaded nanoparticles of the N-2-hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride chitosan, relating to a synthetic method of chitosan and a preparation method of vaccine-loaded nanoparticles of the chitosan. The synthetic method comprises the following steps of: deacelation of the chitosan; dip-treatment of the chitosan; crude preparation of the N-2-hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride chitosan; and refined preparation of the N-2-hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride chitosan. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: adding a Newcastle disease virus solution into an N-2-hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride chitosan solution to obtain a solution A; adding sodium tripolyphosphate, PBS (phosphate buffer solution) and span-80 into the solution A to obtain a solution B; and centrifuging the solution B to obtain a deposit, adding PBS for suspension, adding mycose skimmed milk, and performing freeze drying to finish the preparation. The nanoparticles prepared by using the method has the advantages of easiness in control of particle size, small particle size of drug-loaded nanoparticles, high entrapment efficiency, large drug-loading quantity, mild preparation conditions, low drug toxic or side effect, long slow release time, simple preparation process, lower production cost and easiness in large-scale production.

The invention relates to a process for generating infectious Newcastle disease virus (NDV) entirely from cloned full-length cDNA and to the use of vaccines and diagnostic assays generated with and derived from the process. The process offers the possibility to modify the NDV genome by means of genetic modification and allows for the introduction of mutations, deletions and/or insertions. The process can be used to modify the virulence of NDV, thus generating new attenuated live vaccines with enhanced properties. The process can be used to modify the antigenic make-up of NDV, to allow the generation of live NDV marker vaccines that can be serologically distinguished from NDV field strains.

The present invention refers to a method for the production of live attenuated bacterial strains, suitable as vaccine candidates, comprising the steps of: A. providing a bacterial strain capable of expressing glutamate racemase and possibly D-amino acid transaminase and comprising a peptidoglycan cell wail, and B. inactivating the gene or genes encoding for the glutamate racemase enzyme and, if needed, the gene or genes encoding for the enzyme D-amino acid transaminase in such way that the bacterial strain is no longer capable of expressing a functional glutamate racemase and/or a functional D-amino acid transaminase; wherein the inactivation of said genes causes said bacterial strain to be auxotrophic for D-glutamate.

The invention discloses a method for preparing thermal-stability vaccine and particularly relates to a method for preparing thermal-stability vaccine based on calcium phosphate mineralization. The invention provides a method for preparing calcium phosphate coated viruses. The method comprises the following steps that (1) compounds with Ca<2+> ions are added into virus liquid, an initial system is obtained, and PO4<3-> ions are contained in the virus liquid; (3) the initial system is subjected to incubation; and (3) precipitation is centrifugally collected, and the calcium phosphate coated viruses are obtained. The method has the advantages that through virus surface mineralization modification, the problem of heat inactivation phenomenon in the vaccine transportation and storage process can be effectively solved, and the financial expenditure of the attenuated live vaccine is obviously reduced. The method can be widely applied to thermal-stability vaccine production and preparation.

The invention discloses a Japanese encephalitis vaccine prepared by human embryonic lung fibroblasts and a preparation method thereof, comprising culture and expansion of the human embryonic lung fibroblasts. The method comprises the following steps: Japanese encephalitis virus strain P3, strain SA14-14-2 or strain Nakayama is naturalized and inoculated to fit the human embryonic lung fibroblasts, and the seeds of Japanese encephalitis viruses are prepared on the human embryonic lung fibroblasts; wherein, an inactivated Japanese encephalitis vaccine also comprises the steps of harvesting viruses, inactivating viruses, concentrating, purifying and the like; an attenuated live vaccine also comprises the steps of harvesting viruses, concentrating, purifying and the like. Due to being prepared by healthy human embryonic lung fibroblasts, the two kinds of Japanese encephalitis vaccines do not contain any adventitious pollution agent and tumorigenicity, has high purity after being purified and has the advantages of good immune effect and high security. The preparation method of the invention is suitable for large-scale industrial production and can meet the preparation processes of Japanese encephalitis vaccines required by domestic and abroad markets.

The invention relates to the technical field of biomedicine, and particularly provides varicella-zoster virus gB-gE-gH-gL fusion protein, a genetic engineering subunit vaccine and preparation methods. The fusion protein comprises a VZV gB extracellular region, a gE extracellular region, a gH truncated fragment and a gL truncated fragment. The amino acid sequence of encoded protein of the fusion protein is SEQ ID NO:1, and one amino acid sequence is SEQ ID NO:2. A prokaryotic expression vector is utilized for constructing escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) host bacteria capable of expressing the VZV gB-gE-gH-gL fusion protein. The fusion protein is purified and mixed with a medicinal adjuvant to be prepared into the genetic engineering subunit vaccine. Compared with a currently-used VZV attenuated live vaccine, the vaccine can induce immune mice to generate higher specific humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity and can prevent dormant infection that VZV is spread to dorsal root ganglions and intestinal ganglions through blood flow, the safety of the VZV vaccine is effectively improved, and therefore the genetic engineering subunit vaccine is an alternative vaccine with potential clinical application value.

The present invention discloses a technique for preventing and curing the diseases of aquacultural animals, which relates to an attenuated vaccine for aquacultural bacterial diseases, in particular to an attenuated live vaccine for Edwardsiella tarda. The esrB gene of Edwardsiella tarda strain LSE40 loses an attenuated mutant strain, the Edwardsiella tarda mutant strain is MZLSE40esrB, which is preserved in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC) and the accession number of which is CGMCC No.2087, and the mutant strain MZLSE40esrB does not contain exogenous antibiotic selectable markers and exogenous gene fragments. In respect to the wide type Edwardsiella tarda, the attenuated live vaccine has obviously low toxicity and immune protective rate and does not contain any exogenous antibiotic resistance marker and exogenous gene fragment. Experiments show that the attenuated live vaccine can effectively protect susceptible fishes from being infected with the pathogenic Edwardsiella tarda.

The invention discloses an attenuated Salmonella pullorum and application thereof. By using gene knockout technology, the in vivo colonization gene and the main virulence gene of Salmonella pullorum are deleted, thus obtaining an dual-gene-deleted attenuated Salmonella pullorum SM091-DED strain; and the microbiological preservation number of the strain is CGMCC NO.4604. The virulence of the attenuated Salmonella pullorum disclosed by the invention is obviously reduced, and the in vivo colonization time is short after the attenuated Salmonella pullorum is inoculated into a host; the herd infection test shows that the attenuated Salmonella pullorum has no horizontal transmission capability; the attenuated Salmonella pullorum provides full cross protection for homotype and allotype high-virulence Salmonella pullorum; and after SPF (Specific Pathogen Free) chicks are immunized, the infection of the high-virulence strain can be effectively eliminated, and the herd infection can not be caused. Thus, the invention provides a safe, fine-immunogenicity and low-virulence Salmonellosis avium attenuated live vaccine for preventing Salmonellosis avium.

The invention discloses a herpes simplex virus I-type gene recombinant attenuated live vaccine and a preparation method thereof. The attenuated live vaccine is characterized in that: US2, US3, US4 and US5 genes in a genome and other duplicated or infected nonessential gene fragments are jointly knocked out, wherein other duplicated or infected nonessential gene fragments are US9-US12 genes. The method comprises the following steps: separating and identifying wild HSV-1 (herpes simplex virus-1) from blister fluid of a patient with remarkable herpes labialis and herpes progenitalis; propagating and extracting a complete genome of virus; co-transfecting a Vero cell with a shuttle vector containing homologous flanking sequences of 700bp to 2000bp on the left and right sides of a fluorescent expression gene and the HSV gene to be knocked off; and selecting the recombinant virus by using one or combination of multiple fluorescent protein genes serving as a marker under fluorescent microscope, and acquiring the required recombinant attenuated live vaccine after plaque purification.