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A recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus)
Vampire bat transmitted rabies (VBR) is a continuing burden to public health and agricultural sectors in Latin America, despite decades-long efforts to control the disease by culling bat populations. Culling has been shown to disperse bats, leading to an increased spread of rabies. Thus, non-lethal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9455887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36026522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010699 |
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author | Cárdenas-Canales, Elsa M. Velasco-Villa, Andres Ellison, James A. Satheshkumar, Panayampalli S. Osorio, Jorge E. Rocke, Tonie E. |
author_facet | Cárdenas-Canales, Elsa M. Velasco-Villa, Andres Ellison, James A. Satheshkumar, Panayampalli S. Osorio, Jorge E. Rocke, Tonie E. |
author_sort | Cárdenas-Canales, Elsa M. |
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description | Vampire bat transmitted rabies (VBR) is a continuing burden to public health and agricultural sectors in Latin America, despite decades-long efforts to control the disease by culling bat populations. Culling has been shown to disperse bats, leading to an increased spread of rabies. Thus, non-lethal strategies to control VBR, such as vaccination, are desired. Here, we evaluated the safety and efficacy of a viral-vectored recombinant mosaic glycoprotein rabies vaccine candidate (RCN-MoG) in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) of unknown history of rabies exposure captured in México and transported to the United States. Vaccination with RCN-MoG was demonstrated to be safe, even in pregnant females, as no evidence of lesions or adverse effects were observed. We detected rabies neutralizing antibodies in 28% (8/29) of seronegative bats post-vaccination. Survival proportions of adult bats after rabies virus (RABV) challenge ranged from 55–100% and were not significantly different among treatments, pre- or post-vaccination serostatus, and route of vaccination, while eight pups (1–2.5 months of age) used as naïve controls all succumbed to challenge (P<0.0001). Importantly, we found that vaccination with RCN-MoG appeared to block viral shedding, even when infection proved lethal. Using real-time PCR, we did not detect RABV nucleic acid in the saliva samples of 9/10 vaccinated bats that succumbed to rabies after challenge (one was inconclusive). In contrast, RABV nucleic acid was detected in saliva samples from 71% of unvaccinated bats (10/14 sampled, plus one inconclusive) that died of the disease, including pups. Low seroconversion rates post-vaccination and high survival of non-vaccinated bats, perhaps due to earlier natural exposure, limited our conclusions regarding vaccine efficacy. However, our findings suggest a potential transmission-blocking effect of vaccination with RCN-MoG that could provide a promising strategy for controlling VBR in Latin America beyond longstanding culling programs. |
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spelling | pubmed-94558872022-09-09 A recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) Cárdenas-Canales, Elsa M. Velasco-Villa, Andres Ellison, James A. Satheshkumar, Panayampalli S. Osorio, Jorge E. Rocke, Tonie E. PLoS Negl Trop Dis Research Article Vampire bat transmitted rabies (VBR) is a continuing burden to public health and agricultural sectors in Latin America, despite decades-long efforts to control the disease by culling bat populations. Culling has been shown to disperse bats, leading to an increased spread of rabies. Thus, non-lethal strategies to control VBR, such as vaccination, are desired. Here, we evaluated the safety and efficacy of a viral-vectored recombinant mosaic glycoprotein rabies vaccine candidate (RCN-MoG) in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) of unknown history of rabies exposure captured in México and transported to the United States. Vaccination with RCN-MoG was demonstrated to be safe, even in pregnant females, as no evidence of lesions or adverse effects were observed. We detected rabies neutralizing antibodies in 28% (8/29) of seronegative bats post-vaccination. Survival proportions of adult bats after rabies virus (RABV) challenge ranged from 55–100% and were not significantly different among treatments, pre- or post-vaccination serostatus, and route of vaccination, while eight pups (1–2.5 months of age) used as naïve controls all succumbed to challenge (P<0.0001). Importantly, we found that vaccination with RCN-MoG appeared to block viral shedding, even when infection proved lethal. Using real-time PCR, we did not detect RABV nucleic acid in the saliva samples of 9/10 vaccinated bats that succumbed to rabies after challenge (one was inconclusive). In contrast, RABV nucleic acid was detected in saliva samples from 71% of unvaccinated bats (10/14 sampled, plus one inconclusive) that died of the disease, including pups. Low seroconversion rates post-vaccination and high survival of non-vaccinated bats, perhaps due to earlier natural exposure, limited our conclusions regarding vaccine efficacy. However, our findings suggest a potential transmission-blocking effect of vaccination with RCN-MoG that could provide a promising strategy for controlling VBR in Latin America beyond longstanding culling programs. Public Library of Science 2022-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9455887/ /pubmed/36026522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010699 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) public domain dedication. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Cárdenas-Canales, Elsa M. Velasco-Villa, Andres Ellison, James A. Satheshkumar, Panayampalli S. Osorio, Jorge E. Rocke, Tonie E. A recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) |
title | A recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) |
title_full | A recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) |
title_fullStr | A recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) |
title_full_unstemmed | A recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) |
title_short | A recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) |
title_sort | recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (desmodus rotundus) |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9455887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36026522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010699 |
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