TITRE III: Influenza B Immunogenicity Investigation

Summary

Each winter, viruses belonging to two kinds of influenza A ("A/H1N1" \& "A/H3N2") and two kinds of influenza B ("B/Yamagata" \& "B/Victoria") can cause illness. Historically, the yearly influenza vaccine that was recommended in children was designed to protect against both kinds of influenza A but only one kind of influenza B. In a series of trials conducted between 2008-09 and 2010-11 (TITRE I, II, and IIB), the TITRE investigators measured antibody response to influenza B in children who were primed with two doses of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) containing B/Yamagata. Overall, the investigators found that 2 doses of vaccine containing B/Yamagata did not adequately prime children for response to the alternate B/Victoria antigen and that subsequent vaccine doses containing B/Victoria-lineage antigen strongly boosted antibodies to the B/Yamagata antigen that was introduced during first immunization priming, but with lower responses to B/Victoria. For the first time since 2009-10, the recommended B/Victoria component of the seasonal influenza vaccine has been changed, from B/Brisbane/60/2008 to B/Colorado/60/2007 for the coming 2018-19 season. The investigators thus have a unique opportunity to clarify lineage-specific influenza B responses in a well-characterized cohort of children originally primed to Yamagata. The investigators' main interest is to assess whether TITRE I children primed with two doses of B/Yamagata in 2008-09 have since or are now capable of achieving a sufficient antibody response to B/Victoria following a single dose of 2018-19 QIV, ten years after their initial TIV B/Yamagata priming exposure.

Timeline

Start

2018-12-01

Primary completion

2019-04-12

Completion

2025-06-30

Publications

• Background Skowronski DM, Hottes TS, De Serres G, Ward BJ, Janjua NZ, Sabaiduc S, Chan T, Petric M. Influenza Beta/Victoria antigen induces strong recall of Beta/Yamagata but lower Beta/Victoria response in children primed with two doses of Beta/Yamagata. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011 Oct;30(10):833-9. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31822db4dc.
• Background Skowronski DM, Hottes TS, Chong M, De Serres G, Scheifele DW, Ward BJ, Halperin SA, Janjua NZ, Chan T, Sabaiduc S, Petric M. Randomized controlled trial of dose response to influenza vaccine in children aged 6 to 23 months. Pediatrics. 2011 Aug;128(2):e276-89. doi: 10.1542/peds.2010-2777. Epub 2011 Jul 18.

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