40 results about "Pandemic influenza" patented technology

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 inter alia to the treatment or prevention of influenza virus infection (including subtypes influenza A virus, influenza B virus, avian strain H5N1, A / H1N1, H3N2 and / or pandemic influenza) using compounds which inhibit the activity of p59-HCK and to a method of screening for a candidate drug substance intended to prevent or treat influenza virus infection in a subject, said method comprising identifying a test substance capable of inhibiting p59-HCK activity.

The invention relates to a lipid microsphere composition. The lipid microsphere composition is characterized by comprising a lipid microsphere emulsifying agent and an immunogenic composition, wherein the lipid microsphere emulsifying agent comprises 1 to 30 weight percent of pharmaceutical grade grease, 0.1 to 10 weight percent of zwitterionic / non-ionic surfactant composition, 0.01 to 5 weight percent of stabilizing agent and the balance of aqueous solution; and the immunogenic composition is a univalent to multivalent composition and usually a trivalent composition, and contains a virus antigen or antigenic preparation from one or more pandemic influenza epidemic related influenza virus strains or with one or more pandemic influenza epidemic related influenza virus strains. The lipid microsphere composition not only can serve as an excellent aid of a vaccine, but also can serve as a conveying system of the vaccine. The lipid microsphere composition is applicable to different administration routes of the vaccine, improves compliance, diversity and selectivity of clinical application, and achieves wide, safe and effective immune effect.

Antibodies that specifically bind to a peptide having an amino acid sequence as found at the N-terminus of the HA2 fusion peptide of the influenza A virus may be raised by inoculating a mammal with a conjugate of the peptide. In one embodiment, the conjugate comprises the peptide linked to a spacer (e.g. 6-aminocaproic acid) and a carrier protein (e.g. KLH). The antibodies may be used as a universal reagent for detecting HA proteins of influenza viruses. The antibodies are useful as versatile reagents for laboratory research and vaccine potency determination, especially in the event of pandemic influenza outbreaks.

The present invention relates to use of multimeric multi-epitope peptide-based compositions for immunizing subjects against influenza by administering the compositions to the subject prior to or together with seasonal or pandemic influenza vaccines. The present invention also relates to compositions that include a multimeric multi-epitope polypeptide and a seasonal or pandemic preparation against influenza.

Pharmaceutical and vaccine compositions comprise recombinant hemagglutinin from a pre-pandemic or pandemic influenza virus and an adjuvant comprising GLA. A particularly relevant pre-pandemic influenza virus is H5N1. Kits and methods of using the compositions are also provided.

The invention concerns nucleotides vaccines encoding influenza proteins with few or no glycosylation sites. Since these first introductions of pandemic influenzas the viruses have drifted, accumulating mutations at antigenic sites, but also the N-glycosylation pattern has changed during the drifted years, accumulating N-linked glycosylation sequons that help mask the antigenic sites for recognition by the host immune system. These “naked” initial haemagglutinins induce a broad cross reactivity against widely drifted influenza subtypes. The origin of the DNA or RNA can be both pandemic influenza strains, which codes for proteins which have a naturally low content of glycosylation sites and / or DNA or RNA from non-pandemic influenza strains where the nucleotides have been mutated or changed so it encodes for proteins with less or no glycosylation sites. The invention also discloses DNA or RNA encoding the haemagglutinin (HA) from pandemic influenza A, e.g. the 1918 H1N1 and / or the 1957 H2N2 and / or the 1968 H3N2 influenza A virus, optionally with the Neuraminidase (NA) and / or matrix protein (M) and / or the nucleoprotein (NP) from these pandemic influenza virus included, mixed together with DNA or RNA from non-pandemic influenza A as a vaccine against present day and future influenza A viruses.