Prospective Study on the Vaccine Response to Meningococcal B Vaccine After Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

Summary

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients are at risk of various bacterial infections, especially due to a progressive decrease of specific antibodies. Around 90% of HSCT recipients have unprotective titers of specific antibodies to serogroups A and C meningogocci (Parkkali 2001; Mahler 2012). Some small studies suggest that the response to meningococcal A and C vaccines is close to 100% after 3 doses given 18 months after transplant. Although the response to 2 doses of 4CMenB is over 75% in other immunocompromised patients (Feavers, 2017), studies with 4CMenB are lacking after HSCT. Nevertheless, as serogroup B caused 74% of IMD in Europe between 2004-2014 (Whittaker, 2017), the meningococcal B vaccination is recommended by the more recent guidelines from 6 months after transplant. There are, however, no data on the safety and efficacy of this vaccine after hematopoietic stem cell allograft (HSCT). The objective of this study is to assess the response to 2 doses of a multicomponent meningococcal B vaccine (4CMenB) given at 2 months interval in adult allogeneic HSCT recipients transplanted at least 6 months ago. The response will be assessed 1 month and 10 months after the second dose of vaccine by measuring bactericidal antibodies against NadA, fHbp, NHBA and PorAP1 vaccinal antigens according to methods previously reported (Caron Lancet Infect Dis 2011). The response rate will be correlated to pre- and post-transplant factors. The hypothesis of this study is that 80% of the patients should have protective titers one month after the 2nd dose.

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Start

2019-06-01

Primary completion

2020-03-13

Completion

2020-03-13

Publications

• Background Caron F, du Chatelet IP, Leroy JP, Ruckly C, Blanchard M, Bohic N, Massy N, Morer I, Floret D, Delbos V, Hong E, Revillion M, Berthelot G, Lemee L, Deghmane AE, Benichou J, Levy-Bruhl D, Taha MK. From tailor-made to ready-to-wear meningococcal B vaccines: longitudinal study of a clonal meningococcal B outbreak. Lancet Infect Dis. 2011 Jun;11(6):455-63. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70027-5. Epub 2011 Apr 12.
• Background Mahler MB, Taur Y, Jean R, Kernan NA, Prockop SE, Small TN. Safety and immunogenicity of the tetravalent protein-conjugated meningococcal vaccine (MCV4) in recipients of related and unrelated allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2012 Jan;18(1):145-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2011.07.027. Epub 2011 Aug 4.
• Background Parkkali T, Kayhty H, Lehtonen H, Ruutu T, Volin L, Eskola J, Ruutu P. Tetravalent meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine is immunogenic in adult allogeneic BMT recipients. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2001 Jan;27(1):79-84. doi: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1702742.
• Background Rubin LG, Levin MJ, Ljungman P, Davies EG, Avery R, Tomblyn M, Bousvaros A, Dhanireddy S, Sung L, Keyserling H, Kang I; Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2013 IDSA clinical practice guideline for vaccination of the immunocompromised host. Clin Infect Dis. 2014 Feb;58(3):309-18. doi: 10.1093/cid/cit816.
• Background Whittaker R, Dias JG, Ramliden M, Kodmon C, Economopoulou A, Beer N, Pastore Celentano L; ECDC network members for invasive meningococcal disease. The epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in EU/EEA countries, 2004-2014. Vaccine. 2017 Apr 11;35(16):2034-2041. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.03.007. Epub 2017 Mar 14.

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