Ty21a live oral typhoid vaccine and prevention of paratyphoid fever caused by Salmonella enterica Serovar Paratyphi B

Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Jul 15:45 Suppl 1:S24-8. doi: 10.1086/518141.

Abstract

In randomized, controlled field trials in Area Norte and Area Occidente of Santiago, Chile, 2 (Norte) or 3 (Occidente) doses of live oral typhoid vaccine Ty21a in enteric-coated capsules conferred protection against confirmed Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi disease (53% efficacy in Norte; 67% efficacy in Occidente) during 3 years of follow-up. There was also a trend in each trial showing protection against S. enterica serovar Paratyphi B disease (56% efficacy in Norte; 42% efficacy in Occidente). To enhance statistical power, an analysis was performed using pooled data from the 2 trials; this pooling of data was justified by the following facts: epidemiologic surveillance and microbiological methods were identical, the trials overlapped during 22 of the 36 months of follow-up in each trial, the estimates of efficacy against paratyphoid B fever in the 2 trials were roughly similar, and the ratio of follow-up of vaccine recipients to control subjects in both trials was ~1 : 1. In the pooled analysis, Ty21a conferred significant protection against paratyphoid B fever (efficacy, 49%; 95% confidence interval, 8%-73%; P=.019).

Publication types

  • Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Oral
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Chile / epidemiology
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic
  • Humans
  • Immunization Schedule
  • Incidence
  • Mass Vaccination
  • Paratyphoid Fever / immunology
  • Paratyphoid Fever / prevention & control*
  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial / immunology
  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial / therapeutic use*
  • Salmonella paratyphi A / immunology
  • Salmonella paratyphi B / immunology*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines / immunology
  • Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines / therapeutic use*
  • Vaccines, Attenuated / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial
  • Ty21a typhoid vaccine
  • Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines
  • Vaccines, Attenuated