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Study Details Day-To-Day Immune Response of Ebola Patient Evacuated to U.S.

by Global Biodefense Staff
April 28, 2017
Ebola Outbreak Research and Analysis

John Kash, researcher from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, with his colleagues, carefully tracked changes in gene expression that occurred in a 34-year-old health care worker exposed to Ebola virus in Sierra Leone who was evacuated to the National Institutes of Health seven days after presenting with symptoms of disease.

The individual was released from the facility 33 days following symptom onset. During his progression through multiple organ failure, and, ultimately, recovery, the researchers identified distinct phases of physiological responses.

Strikingly, viral levels didn’t correlate with disease severity – there were no traces of Ebola virus in the subject’s peripheral white blood cell sat day 13, although he remained in critical condition for six additional days. The researchers say that the changes they observed might represent important transition points in the progression of EVD, which could help improve supportive care during future outbreaks.

rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola Vaccine

In an additional analysis, Angela Huttner and colleagues at the Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Center for Vaccinology, along with international collaborators, characterized serum from healthy volunteers receiving the experimental recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-vectored Zaire Ebola vaccine (rVSV-ZEBOV) to identify a predictive signature for adverse responses.

The vaccine was deemed efficacious during ring vaccination trials – where groups who contracted Ebola virus living in close proximity were vaccinated with rVSV-ZEBOV – in Guinea. However, the manufacturers have not yet obtained U.S. FDA approval.

Trials in Europe and Africa indicated that rVSV-ZEBOV produced protective immunity, but some study participants developed short-term systemic inflammation and arthritis after receiving the vaccine, especially at higher doses.

Here, the researchers examined serum samples from a total of 190 participants in two different vaccine trials that took place in Geneva and Gabon. The scientists identified six different markers that predicted adverse reactions, and also corresponded with the activation of monocytes, a subset of immune cells that play a critical role in the body’s inflammatory response.

The signature offers an important insight into outcomes for a vaccine with great potential against a deadly disease, and future studies could use similar predictive tools for other types of inoculations, the authors say.

During the EVD outbreak that struck West Africa from 2013 to 2015, more than 28,000 infections were reported, with 11,310 confirmed fatalities. No vaccines or therapies have yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the disease, which progresses rapidly from nonspecific initial symptoms of fever and weakness to severe diarrhea, bleeding, and multiple organ failure in the later stages. Because outbreaks often occur in resource-limited settings, relatively little is known about how the pathogen affects its human hosts.

Read more:

  • Longitudinal peripheral blood transcriptional analysis of a patient with severe Ebola virus disease. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aai9321.
  • A dose-dependent plasma signature of the safety and immunogenicity of the rVSV-Ebola vaccine in Europe and Africa. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaj1701.
  • NIH study of Ebola patient traces disease progression and recovery
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