脑膜炎球菌菌苗的发展现状及展望

根据荚膜多糖的结构及抗原性不同,将奈瑟氏脑膜炎双球菌分为１２个血清群。绝大多数的脑脊髓膜炎是由Ａ、Ｂ和Ｃ群流脑球菌所引起。Ａ、Ｃ群流脑多糖菌苗自１９６９年研制成功后,在世界范围内迅速得到广泛使用,对防止由Ａ、Ｃ群流脑球菌引起的暴发性脑脊髓膜炎起到了重要作用。由于Ｂ群流脑多糖抗原对人体缺乏免疫原性,外膜蛋白（ＯＭＰ）及脂多糖（ＬＰＳ）被用作研制Ｂ群菌苗的目的抗原。目前使用的多糖菌苗或ＯＭＰ菌苗都存在一定的局限性。将Ａ、Ｃ群多糖抗原结合到蛋白载体上对成人免疫取得了很好的结果,可望弥补多糖抗原对低年龄组儿童免疫效果不佳的缺点。新的多渠道的尝试,如多价ＯＭＰ菌苗、抗遗传基因型菌苗等或许能在不远的将来制备出全面的、有效的流脑菌苗。     

A C群脑脊髓膜炎球菌多糖菌苗生产工艺与内毒素含量研究

A群及C群流脑多糖抗原用 10 0 0 0 0×g离心或不经超速离心处理 ,经用鲎试验法测定内毒素含量 ,2种工艺生产的A群及C群流脑多糖抗原的内毒素含量均很低。用未经超速离心处理的A群及C群流脑多糖抗原制成的A C群流脑多糖菌苗 ,经鲎试验法测定 ,内毒素含量也很低 ;经家兔升温法进行热原质试验 ,家兔体温未明显升高。证明A C群流脑多糖菌苗生产工艺不经 10 0 0 0 0×g离心去除内毒素步骤是可行的。所制备的流脑多糖抗原内毒素含量符合要求。     

鲎试验法检测A群流脑多糖菌苗中内毒素的研究

本文应用鲎试验凝胶法定量测定了２１２批Ａ群流脑多糖菌苗中内毒素含量,并与家兔热原试验结果进行了比较,通过试验求得内毒素标准品对家兔体温升温变化关系的线性方程和内毒素对家兔最小致热剂量。结果表明,占检定总批数９４．３％的制品中内毒素含量＜１００ＩＵ／μｇ多糖,家兔热原试验合格率为１００％,５．７％的制品中内毒素含量≥１００ＩＵ／μｇ多糖,家兔热原试验合格率为５８．３％。根据实验结果,可制订用凝胶法替代家兔法进行Ａ群流脑多糖菌苗的热原质试验的判定标准。作者建议：内毒素含量＜１００ＩＵ／μｇ多糖者,热原质试验判为合格,≥１００ＩＵ／μｇ多糖者,用家兔法予以仲裁。     

检测四价脑膜炎球菌多糖疫苗中A群多糖含量ELISA法的建立

目的建立双抗体夹心ELISA法,对A群流脑多糖抗原进行特异性定量测定。方法制备抗A群多糖的特异性多克隆抗体,所得抗血清经辛酸-硫酸铵沉淀法纯化后,用过碘酸钠法制备辣根过氧化物酶标记多克隆抗体。分别以抗A群多糖多克隆抗体作为包被抗体及酶标二抗,建立双抗体夹心ELISA法,优化反应条件,对A群多糖抗原进行特异性定量测定。结果一系列验证试验表明,该法特异性较好,未检出与C、Y、W135群多糖的交叉反应;1.25～20 ng/mL多糖浓度范围的剂量反应曲线线性最佳,相关系数大于0.98,经实验内10次及不同试验间以16、84、ng/mL测定3次A群多糖中的含量,变异系数在6.3%～11.5%间,回收率在91.8%～105.9%之间,符合常规质控要求,检测限量为4 ng/mL。采用该法测定3批ACYW135群四价脑膜炎球菌多糖疫苗中A群多糖含量、分子大小及回收率的结果均符合规程草案质量标准。结论建立的双抗体夹心ELISA法可尝试用于ACYW135群脑膜炎球菌多糖疫苗中A群多糖的关键质量指标的检测。     

伤寒Vi多糖菌苗多糖含量及分子大小测定试验

伤寒Ｖｉ多糖菌苗是我国新近研制成功的一种多糖菌苗。为了严格控制该制品的质量,经反复试验,建立了多糖含量和分子大小的测定方法。本文报导了（１）用火箭电泳法测定伤寒Ｖｉ多糖菌苗多糖含量。经对不同实验条件进行比较,选择出较为理想的条件。用该法测定８批样品。结果均符合规程要求。对其中５批样品进行６次重复试验表明,该法的重复性好,操作简单,是测定多糖含量较为理想的方法。（２）用琼脂糖柱层析法对２８批伤寒Ｖｉ多糖菌苗的分子大小进行测定。对用该法所得柱层析收集液分别用Ｈｅｓｔｒｉｎ法和２０６ｎｍ扫描法测定其多糖回收率,对测定结果进行比较。结果表明,两种方法的测定结果无显著性差异（Ｐ＞０．０１）,而且重复性均好。可根据实验室条件选择测定方法。     

反向被动血凝改良一步法检测血清HBsAg

反向被动血凝改良一步法检测血清ＨＢｓＡｇ大连市劳动卫生研究所大连１１６０１１曹桂荣,王月芬反问被动血凝法（ＢＰＨＡ）检测乙型肝炎表面抗原（ＨＢｑＡｇ）,具有灵敏、快速、简便等优点［１］。为了避免非特异性凝集反应,通常采取中和抑制试验作为对照。测定时间...     

流行性出血热病毒血凝素抗原位点分析

用八株不同来源的流行性出血热(EHF)病毒的单克隆抗体(McAb),采用血凝抑制试验、反向间接血凝抑制试验、间接酶联免疫及阻断酶联免疫试验等,对两种方法(TE、SA)制备的血凝素抗原进行分析。根据A35、2A6McA5试验的结果,证实血凝素抗原中的核蛋白上存在有非构象依赖性的血凝结合位点;而另外5株McAb在血凝抑制活性方面,虽具有明显的株间交叉,但在反向间接血凝抑制试验、间接酶联免疫试验时则均为阴性,故认为其血凝结合位点位于病毒的膜蛋白,可能与G_2糖蛋白有关,为构象依赖性位点。有关4G6McAb,在阻断酶联免疫试验时,虽与A35、2A6一样具有较高的阻断率,但在反向间接血凝抑制试验、间接酶联免疫试验时明显有别于后二者,对其属性有待进一步确定。     

被动血凝试验测定伤寒Vi抗体

作者从拘橼酸杆菌中提取纯化获得其Ｖｉ多糖抗原,该抗原具有伤寒沙门氏菌Ｖｉ抗原的免疫学特性,而不含伤寒沙门氏菌０,Ｈ抗原,用其致敏新鲜羊血球作被动血凝试验,特异性敏感性均很好。所需Ｖｉ抗原致敏浓度极低,仅为０．０５ｕｇ／ｍｌ。使用新鲜羊血球凝模式较好,便于观察结果,采用被动血凝试验检测１０６名健康中学生肌肉注射３０ｕｇ伤寒Ｖｉ多糖菌苗前后Ｖｉ抗体的变化情况,发现免疫后血清抗体的四倍增长率达８９％,表明伤寒Ｖｉ多糖苗具有良好的免疫原性。     

冻干伤寒Vi＋A群流脑二联多糖疫苗的研究

将现行伤寒多糖疫苗和A群脑多糖疫苗各1人份,联合后以乳糖为保护剂冻干,制备成1人份二联冻干疫苗。并对该疫苗进行鉴别试验、伤寒Vi多糖含量测定、A群流脑多糖磷含量测定、安全试验、冻干二联苗与单价苗Sepharose CL-4B柱层析图比较以及免疫保护效果、动物血清抗体滴度和稳定性试验。试验初步表明,该二联多糖疫苗是安全的,混合后不会引起各自的主要成份、免疫保护效果和抗体应答水平发生变化。即相互没有干扰。一年后各项指标检测表明稳定性良好。可以作为二联苗接种同时预防伤寒和A群汉脑所引起的传染。     

伤寒Vi多糖菌稳定性研究

为研究国产伤寒Vi多糖菌苗的稳定性,将保存三年以上的伤寒Vi多糖菌苗成品采用自然风干和37℃恒温干燥两种方法浓缩后,用CL－4B柱层析分析系统,测定KD在0．25前多糖的回收率,结果均大于50％,同时对保存三年以上的制品按规程进行了全球,结果均符合规程要求,表明国产菌苗放置三年依然合格。     

A群C群脑膜炎球菌结合疫苗稳定性

目的评价A群C群脑膜炎球菌结合疫苗原液和成品的稳定性。方法分别将A群、C群脑膜炎球菌结合疫苗原液及A群C群脑膜炎球菌结合疫苗各选取连续3批,分别放置于37℃、20~25℃和2~8℃3种温度下,在一定的时间取样进行主要项目测定,在关键时间点进行全面检测。结果 A群结合疫苗原液于2~8℃保存9个月,20~25℃保存4周,37℃保存4 d;C群结合疫苗原液于2~8℃保存9个月,20~25℃保存6个月,37℃保存4周;A群C群脑膜炎球菌结合疫苗于2~8℃保存2年3个月,20~25℃保存6个月,37℃可以保存9周;各项检测指标均符合质量标准的要求。结论在2~8℃条件下,A群、C群脑膜炎球菌结合疫苗原液存放6个月,A群C群脑膜炎球菌结合疫苗存放2年,其质量稳定。     

薄膜过滤法在A群C群脑膜炎球菌多糖疫苗无菌检查中的应用

采用薄膜过滤法对A群C群脑膜炎球菌多糖疫苗的无菌检查方法进行验证.结果表明,薄膜过滤法具有取样量大,操作简便,污染几率小,能确保检验结果的准确性、有效性和重现性,该方法适用于A群C群脑膜炎球菌多糖疫苗的无菌检查方法.     

Comparative study of the sensitivity and specificity of dried and liquid meningococcal erythrocyte diagnostic agents A, C and Y in a controlled trial

The comparative study of the sensitivity and specificity of dried and liquid meningococcal erythrocyte diagnosticums A, C and Y has been carried out in the indirect hemagglutination test with the sera of persons immunized with different doses of dried chemical meningococcal (group A) polysaccharide vaccine and persons receiving placebo under the conditions of a controlled epidemiological trial. The possibility of using, on principle, both liquid (A, C) and dried (A, C, Y) preparations in clinico-epidemiological studies has been established. The continuation of the research work aimed at the improvement of meningococcal diagnosticums and, in particular, at the development of polyvalent preparations seems to be justified.     

Evaluation of the reactogenic and immunogenic properties of meningococcal vaccines

The results of the study of the reactogenic and immunogenic properties of meningococcal polysaccharide A + C vaccine in the controlled epidemiological trial, with regard to variations depending on the initial immunological characteristics of vaccinees in terms of the levels of antibodies to the polysaccharides contained in the vaccine, are presented. The study was made on school children: 303 of them were immunized with the meningococcal vaccine under test, and 229 (controls) with adsorbed diphtheria-tetanus toxoid. This study revealed that the reactogenic properties of the preparation were more pronounced in those children whose blood sera had been found to contain no antibodies to polysaccharides A and C prior to immunization. The immunological properties were more pronounced with respect to polysaccharide A. The titer of antibodies to polysaccharide A was found to depend on the previous immunological status of the child, which was indicative of the booster effect produced by the vaccine. The data obtained in the study suggest that the evaluation of the reactogenic and immunogenic properties of newly developed prophylactic preparations should be made with due regard for the previous immunological status of vaccinees in respect to the antigens contained in the meningococcal vaccine under test.     

Safety, reactogenicity and immunological activity of a group A meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine for children 1-4 years old

In the controlled trial carried out among children aged 1-4 years, the safety, reactogenicity and immunological potency of group A meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine produced at the Gabrichevski? Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology (Moscow) were studied. The vaccine under test was introduced in two doses containing 15 and 25 micrograms of meningococcal polysaccharide. Both doses were shown to be safe, faintly reactogenic and immunologically potent. Systemic reactions were manifested by a transient rise in temperature to subfebrile levels in 19% and to 37.8-38.2 degrees C in 4.7% of the vaccinees. The temperature dropped to the normal level by the end of the first day following vaccination. At the site of injection skin hyperemia up to 2-3 cm in diameter was registered in 74% and up to 5-6 cm in diameter, in 6% of the vaccinees. Hyperemia disappeared on day 2 after vaccination. The production of antibodies to group A meningococcal polysaccharide occurred in response to both doses under test, and the elevated antibody level (in comparison to the initial one) was retained perceptibly longer in response to a dose of 25 micrograms; this dose, considering its low reactogenicity, was chosen as the optimal dose for children of the above age group.     

Immunological effectiveness of a dried group-A meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine

The immunological effectiveness of dried group A meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine, developed at the Gabrichevsky Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, for children aged 5-14 years was studied. The intensiveness of the immune response of children to 0.5 ml of the vaccine introduced in a single injection was evaluated by a rise in the level of agglutinating antibodies to group A meningococcal polysaccharide in the sera of the vaccinees 3-4 weeks after immunization with the following optimum doses: 25 micrograms for children aged 5-8 years, 50 micrograms for children aged 9-13 years and 75 micrograms for children aged 14 years and over. The vaccine was shown to be highly immunogenic. Antibodies to group A meningococcal polysaccharide were identified as IgM. These antibodies in a titer of 1:40 and higher could be detected in 90% of the vaccinated children in the younger age group, 7 months after immunization.     

The effect of vaccination on local immunity indices; the determination of antimeningococcal antibodies in saliva]

Local immunity characteristics were studied in 130 young males; of these, 80 had been immunized with group A meningococcal vaccine. In nonstimulated saliva, collected prior to vaccination, then on days 7, 14 and 30 after vaccination, the levels of IgA antibodies to group A meningococcal group-specific polysaccharide (PS-A) were determined in the enzyme immunoassay, and secretory IgA and IgA, IgG, IgM were determined by Mancini's method. The study revealed that after the parenteral administration of group A meningococcal vaccine an increase in the concentrations of SIgA and IgA antibodies to PS-A occurred. The manifestation of changes in local immunity characteristics in response to meningococcal vaccine depended on the initial level of IgA antibodies to PS-A.     

The reactogenicity and antigenic activity of a meningococcal group B vaccine made from a natural complex of the specific polysaccharide and outer membrane proteins

Group B meningococcal vaccine consisting of the natural complex of specific polysaccharide and outer membrane protein (OMP) has been shown to be moderately reactogenic, safe with respect to the effect of undermining tolerance to human brain tissue antigens and to produce no allergization of humans. The vaccine under study possesses antigenic activity: (a) immunization with this vaccine ensures the fourfold rise of the level of antibodies to the group-specific polysaccharide of group B meningococcus in about 80% of persons with the initially low level of antibodies, this percentage being retained during the whole period of observation, i. e. 85 days; (b) the vaccine enhances the level of antibodies to meningococcal OMP, determined in the enzyme immunoassay and the passive hemagglutination test; (c) these data are indicative of the expediency of immunizing the risk groups of persons with the initially low level of antibodies.     

Meningococcal polysaccharide vaccines: A review

Polysaccharides produced by Neisseria meningitidis are pharmaceutically important molecules, and are the active components of vaccines against N. meningitidis serogroups A, C, W135 and Y. Effective vaccines based on capsular polysaccharide, polysaccharide conjugates and outer membrane vesicles have been developed for strains expressing capsular polysaccharides that define the sero groups A, C, Y and W135. However, conventional approaches to develop a vaccine for group B strains have been largely unsuccessful. This review focuses on the various aspects of fermentative production of meningococcal polysaccharide from N. meningitidis, methods of conjugation for improving the immunogenicity of polysaccharide vaccine, and efficient and cost effective methods for the purification of N. meningitidis capsular polysaccharide and outer membrane vesicles. In addition, different analytical techniques for the quantitative determination of polysaccharide vaccine and evaluation of structural integrity of conjugate vaccine have been described.     

Simple and rapid technique for monitoring the quality of meningococcal polysaccharides by high performance size-exclusion chromatography

The molecular size of meningococcal polysaccharides is an important physico-chemical parameter which correlates with immunogenicity. This paper describes the experimental conditions for high-performance size-exclusion chromatography on a PL Aquagel-OH 60 column to follow changes in the size distribution and therefore in the distribution coefficient (K(D)) of the meningococcal polysaccharides of groups A, C, Y and W-135 used to formulate anti-Neisseria meningitidis vaccines. The experimental conditions were also found to be suitable for a rapid monitoring of the quality (no group A polysaccharide depolymerization) of the tetravalent meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine.