Efeito de adjuvantes na eficácia de vacinas em modelos de infecção e/ou co-infecção com esquistossomose e malária

• Autor(a) principal: Hora, Vanusa Pousada da
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFPel - Guaiaca
• Texto Completo: http://guaiaca.ufpel.edu.br/handle/123456789/1277
• topic: Vaccine; Adjuvants; Schistosoma mansoni; Plasmodium chabaudi; Vacina; Adjuvantes; Schistosoma mansoni; Plasmodium chabaudi; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::IMUNOLOGIA

Malaria and schistosomiasis are the major human parasitic diseases in developing countries and their coexistence is frequently observed in tropical regions of these countries. Co-infection by these two parasites may have an important influence on the regulation of inflammatory factors associated with the development of these infections and their respective morbidity. There is no safe and effective vaccine available to control these diseases. The Schistosoma mansoni proteins Sm29 and Sm14 and the Plasmodium spp. antigen AMA-1 are promising vaccine candidates against schistosoma and malaria infections, respectively. For a subunit vaccine, selection of the adjuvant is important. The non-toxic derivatives of the heat-labile toxin of Escherichia coli LTB and LTK63 have been reported as powerful adjuvants. The objective of this study was to evaluate the vaccine efficacy of recombinant Sm29, Sm14 and AMA-1 antigens formulated with LTB or LTK63, in infection and co-infection models with S. mansoni and P. chabaudi strain AS (prior to immunizations, naïve mice, pre-infected with S. mansoni and cured or P. chabaudi AS or infected with both and cured). Overall, rLTK63 stimulated high levels of antigen specific antibodies (IgG1, IgG2a and total IgG) and cytokines (IFN-, TNF-α and IL-13) to rSm29 and rAMA-1 than rLTB. Co-infected-cured mice immunized with rLTK63+rSm29 reduced the parasitic load by 46.45% in the schistosomiasis model. Naïve or co-infected-cured mice immunized with rLTK63+rAMA-1 had a reduction in the P. chabaudi parasitemia. Taken together, these data suggest that co-infection showed a positive trend in vaccine efficacy of rSm29 and rAMA-1 when formulated with rLTK63. rSm14 antigen was fused or co-administered with LTB and the best administration rote and protection induced was assessed. The rSm14 was more efective when fused to LTB and administrated by subcutaneous route. Despite the fact that rLTB-Sm14 induced a balanced ratio of IgG1/IgG2a and high levels of IgA and total IgG, rLTB-Sm14 did not protect mice against S. mansoni infection.