Synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccines: challenges and opportunities

R Mettu, CY Chen, CY Wu - Journal of Biomedical Science, 2020 - Springer
Glycoconjugate vaccines based on bacterial capsular polysaccharides (CPS) have been
extremely successful in preventing bacterial infections. The glycan antigens for the …

The changing and dynamic epidemiology of meningococcal disease

SA Halperin, JA Bettinger, B Greenwood, LH Harrison… - Vaccine, 2012 - Elsevier
The epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease continues to change rapidly, even in
the three years since the first Meningococcal Exchange Meeting in 2008. Control of disease …

Increase in Endemic Neisseria meningitidis Capsular Group W Sequence Type 11 Complex Associated With Severe Invasive Disease in England and Wales

SN Ladhani, K Beebeejaun, J Lucidarme… - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
England and Wales are experiencing a year-on-year increase in meningococcal group W
(MenW) disease since 2009–2010, following rapid expansion of a single endemic …

Transcriptional atlas of the human immune response to 13 vaccines reveals a common predictor of vaccine-induced antibody responses

T Hagan, B Gerritsen, LE Tomalin, S Fourati… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Systems vaccinology has defined molecular signatures and mechanisms of
immunity to vaccination. However, comparative analysis of immunity to different vaccines is …

Vaccines against meningococcal serogroup B disease containing outer membrane vesicles (OMV): lessons from past programs and implications for the future

J Holst, P Oster, R Arnold, M Tatley… - Human vaccines & …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The utility of wild-type outer membrane vesicle (wtOMV) vaccines against serogroup B
(MenB) meningococcal disease has been explored since the 1970s. Public health …

Safety and efficacy of the two doses conjugated protein-based SOBERANA-02 COVID-19 vaccine and of a heterologous three-dose combination with SOBERANA …

ME Toledo-Romaní, M García-Carmenate… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background SOBERANA-02 is a COVID-19 conjugate vaccine (recombinant RBD
conjugated to tetanus toxoid). Phases 1/2 clinical trials demonstrated high immunogenicity …

Meningococcal vaccines: current status and emerging strategies

PC McCarthy, A Sharyan, L Sheikhi Moghaddam - Vaccines, 2018 - mdpi.com
Neisseria meningitidis causes most cases of bacterial meningitis. Meningococcal meningitis
is a public health burden to both developed and developing countries throughout the world …

Invasive meningococcal disease in England and Wales: implications for the introduction of new vaccines

SN Ladhani, JS Flood, ME Ramsay, H Campbell… - Vaccine, 2012 - Elsevier
A number of meningococcal vaccines have either been recently licensed or are in late-
phase clinical trials. To inform national vaccination policy, it is important to define the burden …

Abundance and co-occurrence of extracellular capsules increase environmental breadth: Implications for the emergence of pathogens

O Rendueles, M Garcia-Garcerà, B Néron… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Extracellular capsules constitute the outermost layer of many bacteria, are major virulence
factors, and affect antimicrobial therapies. They have been used as epidemiological markers …

Glycoconjugate vaccines: an update

M Vella, D Pace - Expert opinion on biological therapy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Globally, the three main pathogens causing serious infections are
Haemophilus influenzae type b, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis …