Meningococcal vaccine

Meningococcal vaccine
Nimenrix - Meningococcal groups A, C, W-135 and Y conjugate vaccine
Vaccine description
Target diseaseNeisseria meningitidis
TypeConjugate or polysaccharide
Names
Trade namesMenactra, Menveo, Menomune, Others
Clinical data
Pregnancy
category
  • AU: B2
  • US: C (Risk not ruled out)
    Routes of
    use    		Intramuscular (conjugate), Subcutaneous (polysaccharide)
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    Meningococcal vaccine refers to any of the vaccines used to prevent infection by Neisseria meningitidis.[1] Different versions are effective against some or all of the following types of meningococcus: A, B, C, W-135, and Y.[1][2] The vaccines are between 85 and 100% effective for at least two years.[1] They result in a decrease in meningitis and sepsis among populations where they are widely used.[3] They are given either by injection into a muscle or just under the skin.[1]

    The World Health Organization recommends that countries with a moderate or high rate of disease or with frequent outbreaks should routinely vaccinate.[1][4] In countries with a low risk of disease, they recommend that high risk groups should be immunized.[1] In the African meningitis belt efforts to immunize all people between the ages of one and thirty with the meningococcal A conjugate vaccine are ongoing.[4] In Canada and the United States the vaccines effective against all four types of meningococcus are recommended routinely for teenagers and others who are at high risk.[1] Saudi Arabia requires vaccination with the quadrivalent vaccine for international travelers to Mecca for Hajj.[1][5]

    Meningococcal vaccines are generally safe.[1] Some people develop pain and redness at the injection site.[1] Use in pregnancy appears to be safe.[4] Severe allergic reactions occur in less than one in a million doses.[1] After receiving the meningitis vaccine, teenagers should be observed for 15 minutes as they may feel light headed.[3]

    The first meningococcal vaccine became available in the 1970s.[6] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.[7] Globally, its use has reduced the number of people contracting meningococcal meningitis.[3] The wholesale cost in the developing world is between US $3.23 and $10.77 per dose as of 2014.[8] In the United States it costs $100–200 for a course.[9]

    Medical uses

    Meningitis vaccines are used to protect against one or more of five of the six disease-causing types of Neisseria meningitidis (A, B, C, W and Y).[10]

    Dosage

    The defined daily dose is not established[11]

    Types

    Neisseria meningitidis has 12 clinically significant serogroups, classified according to the antigenic structure of their polysaccharide capsule. Six serogroups, A, B, C, Y, W-135, and X, are responsible for virtually all cases of the disease in humans.[12] A vaccine is available for 5 of them.[13] There is no vaccine that protects against group X.[14]

    Quadrivalent (Serogroups A, C, W-135, and Y)

    There are two quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines licensed and approved in the US; Menactra and Menveo.[3]

    A polysaccharide vaccine (MPSV-4), Menomune, produced by Sanofi Pasteur.

    Mencevax (GlaxoSmithKline) and NmVac4-A/C/Y/W-135 (JN-International Medical Corporation) are used worldwide, but have not been licensed in the United States.

    Nimenrix (GlaxoSmithKline), a quadrivalent conjugate vaccine against serogroups A, C, W-135, and Y, is available in the countries of the European Union[15] and some additional countries.

    The first meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV-4), Menactra, was licensed in the U.S. in 2005 by Sanofi Pasteur; Menveo was licensed in 2010 by Novartis. Both MCV-4 vaccines have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for people 2 through 55 years of age. Menactra received FDA approval for use in children as young as 9 months in April 2011[16] while Menveo received FDA approval for use in children as young as 2 months in August 2013.[17] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not made recommendations for or against its use in children less than 2 years.[18]

    Meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine (MPSV-4), Menomune, has been available since the 1970s. It may be used if MCV-4 is not available, and is the only meningococcal vaccine licensed for people older than 55. Information about who should receive the meningococcal vaccine is available from the CDC.[18]

    Limitations

    The duration of immunity mediated by Menomune (MPSV-4) is three years or less in children aged under five because it does not generate memory T cells.[19][20] Attempting to overcome this problem by repeated immunization results in a diminished, not increased, antibody response, so boosters are not recommended with this vaccine.[21][22] As with all polysaccharide vaccines, Menomune does not produce mucosal immunity, so people can still become colonised with virulent strains of meningococcus, and no herd immunity can develop.[23][24] For this reason, Menomune is suitable for travelers requiring short-term protection, but not for national public health prevention programs.

    Menveo and Menactra contain the same antigens as Menomune, but the antigens are conjugated to a diphtheria toxoid polysaccharide–protein complex, resulting in anticipated enhanced duration of protection, increased immunity with booster vaccinations, and effective herd immunity.[25]

    Endurance

    A study published in March 2006, comparing the two kinds of vaccines found that 76% of subjects still had passive protection three years after receiving MCV-4 (63% protective compared with controls), but only 49% had passive protection after receiving MPSV-4 (31% protective compared with controls).[26] As of 2010, there remains limited evidence that any of the current conjugate vaccines offer continued protection beyond three years; studies are ongoing to determine the actual duration of immunity, and the subsequent requirement of booster vaccinations. The CDC offers recommendations regarding who they feel should get booster vaccinations.[27][28]

    Bivalent (Serogroups C and Y)

    On 14 June 2012, the FDA approved a combination vaccine against two types of meningococcal disease and Hib disease for infants and children 6 weeks to 18 months old. The vaccine, Menhibrix, prevents disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups C and Y and Haemophilus influenzae type b. This was the first meningococcal vaccine that could be given to infants as young as six weeks old.[29]

    Serogroup A

    MenAfriVac, a meningitis A vaccine, has been developed through a program called the Meningitis Vaccine Project and has been shown to prevent outbreaks of group A meningitis, which is common in sub-Saharan Africa.[3]

    Serogroup B

    Vaccines against serotype B meningococcal disease have proved difficult to produce, and require a different approach from vaccines against other serotypes. Whereas effective polysaccharide vaccines have been produced against types A, C, W-135, and Y, the capsular polysaccharide on the type B bacterium is too similar to human neural adhesion molecules to be a useful target.[30]

    A vaccine for serogroup B was developed in Cuba in response to a large outbreak of meningitis B during the 1980s. This vaccine was based on artificially produced outer membrane vesicles of the bacterium. The VA-MENGOC-BC vaccine proved safe and effective in randomized double-blind studies,[31][32][33] but it was granted a licence only for research purposes in the United States[34] as political differences limited cooperation between the two countries.[35]

    Due to a similarly high prevalence of B-serotype meningitis in Norway between 1975 and 1985, Norwegian health authorities developed a vaccine specifically designed for Norwegian children and young adolescents. Clinical trials were discontinued after the vaccine was shown to cover only slightly more than 50% of all cases. Furthermore, lawsuits for damages were filed against the State of Norway by persons affected by serious adverse reactions. Information that the health authorities obtained during the vaccine development were subsequently passed on to Chiron (now GlaxoSmithKline), who developed a similar vaccine, MeNZB, for New Zealand.

    A MenB vaccine was approved for use in Europe in January 2013. Following a positive recommendation from the European Union's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, Bexsero, produced by Novartis, received a licence from the European Commission.[36] However, deployment in individual EU member countries still depends on decisions by national governments. In July 2013, the United Kingdom's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) issued an interim position statement recommending against adoption of Bexsero as part of a routine meningococcal B immunisation program, on the grounds of cost-effectiveness.[37] This decision was reverted in favor of Bexsero vaccination in March 2014.[38] In March 2015 the UK government announced that they had reached agreement with GlaxoSmithKline who had taken over Novartis' vaccines business, and that Bexsero would be introduced into the UK routine immunization schedule later in 2015.[39]

    In November 2013, in response to an outbreak of B-serotype meningitis on the campus of Princeton University, the acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) meningitis and vaccine preventable diseases branch told NBC News that they had authorized emergency importation of Bexsero to stop the outbreak.[40] Bexsero was subsequently approved by the FDA in February 2015.[41] In October 2014, Trumenba, a serogroup B vaccine produced by Pfizer, was approved by the FDA.[2]

    Serogroup X

    The occurrence of serogroup X has been reported in North America, Europe, Australia, and West Africa.[42] There is no vaccine to protect against serogroup X N. meningitidis disease.[1]

    • MenACWY vaccine
    • MenB vaccine
      MenB vaccine
    • MenC and Hib vaccine
      MenC and Hib vaccine

    Side effects

    Common side effects include pain and redness around the site of injection (up to 50% of recipients). A small percentage of people develop a mild fever. As with any medication, a small proportion of people develop a severe allergic reaction.[43] In 2016 Health Canada warned of an increased risk of anemia or hemolysis in people treated with eculizumab (Soliris). The highest risk was when individuals "received a dose of Soliris within 2 weeks after being vaccinated with Bexsero".[44]

    Despite initial concerns about Guillain-Barré syndrome, subsequent studies in 2012 have shown no increased risk of GBS after meningococcal conjugate vaccination.[45]

    Effectiveness

    The widespread use of the quadrivalent meningitis vaccine in the US since 2005 has reduced the incidence of meningococcal disease in the US.[3] By June 2015, 220 million under 30 year olds received the meningitis A vaccine in 15 African countries, which reduced the number of cases of Meningococcal A disease by over 99%.[3] In countries which have implemented nation vaccination programmes, meningococcal A disease is almost eliminated.[3]

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    Further reading

    • Conterno LO, Silva Filho CR, Rüggeberg JU, Heath PT (2006). Conterno LO (ed.). "Conjugate vaccines for preventing meningococcal C meningitis and septicaemia". Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 3 (3): CD001834. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD001834.pub2. PMID 16855979.
    • Patel M, Lee CK (2005). Patel M (ed.). "Polysaccharide vaccines for preventing serogroup A meningococcal meningitis". Cochrane Database Syst Rev (1): CD001093. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD001093.pub2. PMID 15674874.
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