Use of bacterium for manufacture of a vaccine

Details Use of bacterium for manufacture of a vaccine Use of bacterium for manufacture of a vaccine

2000-01-27

2004-01-27

Fredman, Jeffrey (Department: 1636)

Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions

Antigen, epitope, or other immunospecific immunoeffector

Bacterium or component thereof or substance produced by said...

C424S093440, C424S237100, C424S829000, C424S009200, C435S236000, C435S253400, C435S252100

Reexamination Certificate

active

06682745

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to the use of bacteria for the manufacture of vaccines.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Vaccination has been proven through the years to be a very efficient method for the prevention of diseases caused by many different bacteria. Vaccines have the advantage, contrary to e.g. antibiotic or pharmacochemical therapies, that they are preventing disease rather than curing it. In many fields, e.g. the field of animal husbandry, vaccination is a standard routine. Usually, all animals in a group are vaccinated as a precautionary measure, in order to prevent disease, whereas in practice often only a few animals would have become infected if no vaccine had been given. This explains why for most commonly used vaccines adverse local reactions due to vaccination are not acceptable: it is not acceptable to cause (severe) physical stress in many animals to prevent a (mild) disease in few.
Nevertheless, for most vaccines, especially for the live vaccines that are in most cases preferable to inactivated vaccines, there is a delicate balance between a sufficiently strong triggering of the immune system on the one hand and acceptable local reactions at the site of administration of the vaccine on the other hand. As a rule of thumb, the best live vaccine gives the most severe local reactions, and therefore local reactions are often unavoidable if efficacious protection is needed.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide ways to diminish the problem of local reactions of live vaccines without further attenuating the live vaccines.
It was surprisingly found now that when live attenuated bacteria are used for the preparation of a vaccine for administration to submucosal tissue, the thus obtained vaccine when applied submucosally gives good protection and minor local reactions.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
This invention is widely applicable in the field of manufacture of systemic vaccines. It is not restricted to any specific bacterium or a specific disease. Practically all live attenuated bacteria that are suitable for the manufacture of a live attenuated vaccine for systemic application are equally suitable for use in this specific invention. Systemic application comprises all applications in which the vaccine is not applied to the mucosa (mucosal application comprises i.a. oral and intranasal vaccination). Systemic application routes comprise i. a. intramuscular application (IM), subcutaneous application (SC), intradermal vaccination (ID), intravenous vaccination (IV) and intraperitoneal vaccination (IP).
Of these routes, intramuscular vaccination is in many cases the preferred application route. This is due to the fact that the vaccine, possibly mixed with an adjuvant, is only slowly released from the site of injection. Thus, the immune system is continuously triggered for a relatively long time with an immunogenic dose of the vaccine. This way of administration ensures an adequate immune response. The disadvantage, however, is, that many bacterial IM administered vaccines cause large abscesses at the site of injection. These abscesses may stay there from days to months. In those cases in which a live attenuated bacterium must behave relatively virulent in order to trigger an adequate immune response, the bacterium often replicates at the injection site to such a level that the abscess even bursts. Large intramuscular or skin/abscesses are clearly an unacceptable side-effects of vaccination with bacterial live attenuated strains, but unavoidable if further attenuation spoils the immunogenic potential of the bacterium. This causes the dilemma mentioned above, for which the invention offers a solution.
It is certainly unexpected that such soft and vulnerable tissue as submucosal tissue allows the administration of (sometimes even hardly) attenuated live bacterial vaccines.
a) without giving the unacceptable abscesses seen with intradermal or intramuscular application, while
b) at the same time allowing a sufficient immune response to be build up.
This is even more unexpected if the level of damage is considered, that many relatively virulent attenuated bacteria cause to their host when given ID or IM. Intradermal or intramuscular vaccination with such bacteria often causes, next to the formation of abscesses, severe lesions at the injection site. The tissue around the injection site often completely disintegrates, leaving large scars.
All these disadvantages are hardly or not seen with the uses according to the invention.
Therefore this embodiment of the invention relates to the use of live attenuated bacteria for the manufacture of a vaccine for submucosal administration. Mucosal tissue is found i.a. in the mouth, the nose, the lining of the gut, the eye, the vulva and the lips.
Submucosal application is understood to be administration through the upper layer of the mucosa, and into the submucosa. The submucosa is a well-defined layer, known as such in the art. In principle, there is no limit to depth at which vaccination takes place (i.e. the depth of the tip of the needle), with of course the proviso that vaccination takes place in the submucosa. In practice however, the vaccine would not likely be applied deeper than about 5 millimeters from the surface of the mucosa. Generally spoken, smaller distances between the mucosa and the injection site gives smaller local effects. A very suitable depth would be in the submucosa between two and four millimeters below the mucosa.
Another attractive way of application is by using a so-called needle-less injector. The use of these injectors is known from intradermal applications, but these injectors are equally suitable for submucosal applications. Due to the softness of mucosal tissue the vaccine, when applied through a needle-less injector, goes straight through the mucosa and will come to a halt in the submucosal tissue. The depth of the vaccination only depends on the power applied during administration.
In principle, all submucosal tissue is suitable for submucosal application. In practice however, the submucosal tissue of the lips and, in female animals, the vulva are very practical sites of administration. Especially in horses, dogs and cattle the submucosal tissue of the lips would be the preferable site of administration.
Therefore, in a preferred form, the live attenuated bacteria are used for the manufacture of a vaccine for administration in the submucosa of the labiae.
As mentioned above, practically all live attenuated bacteria that are suitable for the manufacture of a live attenuated vaccine for systemic application are suitable for use in this specific invention. There are many important pathogenic bacteria for which the use according to the invention means a great improvement in safety, where the severity of local reactions is concerned. Below, a list of bacteria is presented, all known to cause abscess formation and thus severe tissue damage and skin lesions, when administered intramuscularly. And for all these bacteria there is a reciprocal relation between the decreased immunogenic potential after attenuation on the one hand, and the acceptability of local reactions at the site of administration on the other hand.
The invention applies e.g. to the use of live attenuated bacteria that are attenuated forms of horse pathogenic bacteria.
The following bacteria are examples of the large family of well-established horse pathogenic bacteria:
Streptococcus equi
, the cause of “Strangles”. This disease causes abscesses of lymph nodes of the head and neck and systemic infections. The swelling of the lymph nodes causes the horses to suffocate. No reliable vaccine without adverse local reactions is known so far for
Streptococcus equi, Streptococcus zooepidemicus
, causing respiratory tract infections and pneumonia, opportunistic infections and abortion in horses;
Rhodococcus equi
, causing bronchopneumonia with abscesses and intestinal abscesses;
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
, causing pectoral abscesses and ulcerative lymphangitis;
Pseudomonas mal

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