Nicole Berens-Riha, Petra Andries, Annelies Aerssens, Quentin Ledure, Yolien Van Der Beken, Leo Heyndrickx, Els Genbrugge, Achilleas Tsoumanis, Yven Van Herrewege, Kevin K Ariën, Martine Van Innis, Peter Vanbrabant, Patrick Soentjens
{"title":"Five accelerated schedules for the tick-borne encephalitis vaccine FSME-Immun® in last-minute travellers: an open-label, single-centre, randomized controlled pilot trial.","authors":"Nicole Berens-Riha, Petra Andries, Annelies Aerssens, Quentin Ledure, Yolien Van Der Beken, Leo Heyndrickx, Els Genbrugge, Achilleas Tsoumanis, Yven Van Herrewege, Kevin K Ariën, Martine Van Innis, Peter Vanbrabant, Patrick Soentjens","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taad053","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taad053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The purpose of this exploratory study was to evaluate different accelerated tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) vaccine schedules for last-minute travellers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a single-centre, open-label pilot study, 77 TBE-naïve Belgian soldiers were randomized to one of the following five schedules with FSME-Immun®: group 1 ('classical accelerated' schedule) received one intramuscular (IM) dose at Day 0 and Day 14, group 2 two IM doses at Day 0, group 3 two intradermal (ID) doses at Day 0, group 4 two ID doses at Day 0 and Day 7 and group 5 two ID doses at Day 0 and Day 14. The last dose(s) of the primary vaccination scheme were given after 1 year: IM (1 dose) or ID (2 doses). TBE virus neutralizing antibodies were measured in a plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT90 and 50) at Days 0, 14, 21, 28, Months 3, 6, 12 and 12+21 days. Seropositivity was defined as neutralizing antibody titres ≥10.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The median age was 19-19.5 years in each group.Median time to seropositivity up to Day 28 was shortest for PRNT90 in ID-group 4 and for PRNT50 in all ID groups. Seroconversion until Day 28 peaked highest for PRNT90 in ID-group 4 (79%) and for PRNT50 in ID-groups 4 and 5 (both 100%). Seropositivity after the last vaccination after 12 months was high in all groups. Previous yellow fever vaccination was reported in 16% and associated with lower geometric mean titres of TBE-specific antibodies at all-time points.The vaccine was generally well tolerated. However, mild to moderate local reactions occurred in 73-100% of ID compared with 0-38% of IM vaccinations, and persistent discolouration was observed in nine ID vaccinated individuals.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The accelerated two-visit ID schedules might offer a better immunological alternative to the recommended classical accelerated IM schedule, but an aluminium-free vaccine would be preferable.</p>","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11500657/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9384592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandre Duvignaud, Rhett J Stoney, Kristina M Angelo, Lin H Chen, Paolo Cattaneo, Leonardo Motta, Federico G Gobbi, Emmanuel Bottieau, Daniel L Bourque, Corneliu P Popescu, Hedvig Glans, Hilmir Asgeirsson, Ines Oliveira-Souto, Stephen D Vaughan, Bhawana Amatya, Francesca F Norman, Jesse Waggoner, Marta Díaz-Menéndez, Michael Beadsworth, Silvia Odolini, Daniel Camprubí-Ferrer, Loic Epelboin, Bradley A Connor, Gilles Eperon, Eli Schwartz, Michael Libman, Denis Malvy, Davidson H Hamer, Ralph Huits
{"title":"Epidemiology of travel-associated dengue from 2007 to 2022: A GeoSentinel analysis.","authors":"Alexandre Duvignaud, Rhett J Stoney, Kristina M Angelo, Lin H Chen, Paolo Cattaneo, Leonardo Motta, Federico G Gobbi, Emmanuel Bottieau, Daniel L Bourque, Corneliu P Popescu, Hedvig Glans, Hilmir Asgeirsson, Ines Oliveira-Souto, Stephen D Vaughan, Bhawana Amatya, Francesca F Norman, Jesse Waggoner, Marta Díaz-Menéndez, Michael Beadsworth, Silvia Odolini, Daniel Camprubí-Ferrer, Loic Epelboin, Bradley A Connor, Gilles Eperon, Eli Schwartz, Michael Libman, Denis Malvy, Davidson H Hamer, Ralph Huits","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae089","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Dengue is a leading cause of febrile illness among international travellers. We aimed to describe the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of imported dengue in returning travellers evaluated at GeoSentinel sites from 2007 to 2022.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We retrieved GeoSentinel records of dengue among travellers residing in non-endemic countries. We considered dengue confirmed when diagnosed by a positive dengue virus (DENV)-specific reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, positive NS-1 antigen and/or anti-DENV IgG seroconversion, and probable when diagnosed by single anti-DENV IgM or high-titre anti-DENV IgG detection. Severe dengue was defined as evidence of clinically significant plasma leakage or bleeding, organ failure, or shock, according to the 2009 World Health Organization guidance. Complicated dengue was defined as either severe dengue or dengue with presence of any warning sign. Analyses were descriptive.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This analysis included 5958 travellers with confirmed (n = 4859; 81.6%) or probable (n = 1099; 18.4%) dengue. The median age was 33 years (range: <1-91); 3007 (50.5%) travellers were female. The median travel duration was 21 days (interquartile range [IQR]: 15-32). The median time between illness onset and GeoSentinel site visit was 7 days (IQR: 4-15). The most frequent reasons for travel were tourism (67.3%), visiting friends or relatives (12.2%) and business (11.0%). The most frequent regions of acquisition were South East Asia (50.4%), South Central Asia (14.9%), the Caribbean (10.9%) and South America (9.2%). Ninety-five (1.6%) travellers had complicated dengue, of whom 27 (0.5%) had severe dengue and one died. Of 2710 travellers with data available, 724 (26.7%) were hospitalized. The largest number of cases (n = 835) was reported in 2019.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A broad range of international travellers should be aware of the risk of acquiring dengue and receive appropriate pre-travel counselling regarding preventive measures. Prospective cohort studies are needed to further elucidate dengue risk by destination and over time, as well as severe outcomes and prolonged morbidity (long dengue) due to travel-related dengue.</p>","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11502266/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141476862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefano Musumeci, Frédérique Jacquerioz, Olivier Segeral, Alexandra Calmy
{"title":"Effectively protecting health care workers as clade 1 mpox epidemic complexifies: a call for vaccine and antivirals deployment.","authors":"Stefano Musumeci, Frédérique Jacquerioz, Olivier Segeral, Alexandra Calmy","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae120","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142108707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vera Buerger, Gabriele Maurer, Karin Kosulin, Romana Hochreiter, Julian Larcher-Senn, Katrin Dubischar, Susanne Eder-Lingelbach
{"title":"Combined immunogenicity evaluation for a new single-dose live-attenuated chikungunya vaccine.","authors":"Vera Buerger, Gabriele Maurer, Karin Kosulin, Romana Hochreiter, Julian Larcher-Senn, Katrin Dubischar, Susanne Eder-Lingelbach","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae084","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Chikungunya is a serious and debilitating viral infection with a significant disease burden. VLA1553 (IXCHIQ®) is a live-attenuated vaccine licensed for active immunization for prevention of disease caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Immunogenicity following a single dose of VLA1553 was evaluated in healthy adults aged ≥18 years in two Phase 3 trials [N = 656 participants (per protocol analysis set)]. Immunogenicity data to 180 days post-vaccination [geometric mean titres (GMTs), seroresponse rate, seroconversion rate] were pooled for the two trials. A comparison of subgroups based on age, sex, body mass index (BMI), race and baseline seropositivity was included. All analyses were descriptive.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Most participants were aged 18-64 years (N = 569/656 [86.7%]), there were slightly more females (N = 372/656 [56.7%]), most were not Hispanic/Latino (N = 579/656 [88.3%]), and most were White (N = 517/656 [78.8%]). In baseline seronegative participants, GMT peaked at Day 29 post-vaccination, and subsequently declined slightly but remained elevated until Day 180. At Days 29, 85 and 180, seroresponse rate was 98.3, 97.7 and 96.4% and seroconversion rate was 98.5, 98.4 and 98.2%. There were no differences in seroresponse rate in participants aged 18-64 years or ≥65 years at Day 29 (98.1 vs 100%), Day 85 (97.4 vs 100%) and Day 180 (96.3 vs 96.5%) nor based on sex, BMI, ethnicity or race. An immune response was shown in a small heterogenous population of baseline seropositive participants, with GMTs showing the same trend as baseline seronegative participants.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A single dose of VLA1553 elicited a very strong immune response by Day 29 that remained elevated at Day 180 in both baseline seronegative and seropositive participants in a combined evaluation of two Phase 3 trials. The vaccine was similarly immunogenic in participants aged ≥65 years and 18-64 years, and there were no differences based on subgroup analyses for sex, BMI, ethnicity or race.</p>","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141498335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emilie Javelle, Oula Itani, Christophe Rapp, Davidson H Hamer, Ralph Huits
{"title":"Will the Olympic flame spark dengue outbreaks during the Paris 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic games?","authors":"Emilie Javelle, Oula Itani, Christophe Rapp, Davidson H Hamer, Ralph Huits","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae088","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141534699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin Alberer, Christine L Moe, Christoph Hatz, Kerstin Kling, Amy E Kirby, Lisa Lindsay, Hans D Nothdurft, Margarita Riera-Montes, Robert Steffen, Thomas Verstraeten, Henry M Wu, Herbert L DuPont
{"title":"Norovirus acute gastroenteritis amongst US and European travellers to areas of moderate to high risk of travellers' diarrhoea: a prospective cohort study.","authors":"Martin Alberer, Christine L Moe, Christoph Hatz, Kerstin Kling, Amy E Kirby, Lisa Lindsay, Hans D Nothdurft, Margarita Riera-Montes, Robert Steffen, Thomas Verstraeten, Henry M Wu, Herbert L DuPont","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taad051","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taad051","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a major medical condition for travellers worldwide, particularly travellers to low- and middle-income countries. Norovirus (NoV) is the most common cause of viral AGE in older children and adults, but data on prevalence and impact amongst travellers is limited.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Prospective, multi-site, observational cohort study conducted 2015-2017, amongst adult international travellers from the US and Europe to areas of moderate to high risk of travel-acquired AGE. Participants provided self-collected pre-travel stool samples and self-reported AGE symptoms whilst travelling. Post-travel stool samples were requested from symptomatic subjects and a sample of asymptomatic travellers within 14 days of return. Samples were tested for NoV by RT-qPCR, genotyped if positive and tested for other common enteric pathogens by Luminex xTAG GPP.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 1109 participants included, 437 (39.4%) developed AGE symptoms resulting in an overall AGE incidence of 24.7 per 100 person-weeks [95% confidence interval (CI): 22.4; 27.1]. In total, 20 NoV-positive AGE cases (5.2% of those tested) were identified at an incidence of 1.1 per 100 person-weeks (95% CI: 0.7; 1.7). NoV-positive samples belonged mostly to genogroup GII (18, 85.7%); None of the 13 samples sequenced belonged to genotype GII.4. Clinical severity of AGE was higher for NoV-positive than for NoV-negative cases (mean modified Vesikari Score 6.8 vs 4.9) with more cases classified as severe or moderate (25% vs 6.8%). In total, 80% of NoV-positive participants (vs 38.9% in NoV-negative) reported at least moderate impact on travel plans.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>AGE is a prevalent disease amongst travellers with a small proportion associated with NoV. Post-travel stool sample collection timing might have influenced the low number of NoV cases detected; however, NoV infections resulted in high clinical severity and impact on travel plans. These results may contribute to targeted vaccine development and the design of future studies on NoV epidemiology.</p>","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11500662/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9598480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thayane Santos Siqueira, Lívia Silveira Silva, Jamile Rodrigues Cosme de Holanda, Sálvia Cely Cerqueira Carvalho, José Rodrigo Santos Silva, Victor Santana Santos
{"title":"Spatial clustering of dengue cases during the 2024 epidemic in Brazil.","authors":"Thayane Santos Siqueira, Lívia Silveira Silva, Jamile Rodrigues Cosme de Holanda, Sálvia Cely Cerqueira Carvalho, José Rodrigo Santos Silva, Victor Santana Santos","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae093","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141544983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: On alert for Ebola: public health risk assessment of travellers from Uganda to the USA during the 2022 outbreak.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae114","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142055961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A case of coinfection with dengue and parainfluenza virus after travel to Indonesia.","authors":"Fumitaka Momoi, Chie Yamamoto, Ryosuke Hamashima, Keitaro Furukawa, Ryo Araki, Yukiji Yamada, Takaaki Nakaya, Yoko Nukui","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae118","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae118","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11500654/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142108705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}