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The purpose of this study is to investigate the immunity of persons fully vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella and to examine the course of immunity after booster vaccination.


Clinical Trial Description

Determining whether individuals respond to vaccination is an important healthcare question with significant public health impact. In recent years there have been surges in cases of measles and mumps; vaccine-preventable diseases which have previously been well-controlled since the introduction of regular vaccination (as MMR) in the 1970s-80s. Since 2016, approximately 10,000-15,000 cases each of measles and mumps have been reported annually in Europe. Despite high vaccination coverage and being declared "measles endemic free", multiple outbreaks have occurred in Switzerland, affecting predominately older adults and young children. While rubella cases remain relatively uncommon, infection during pregnancy can result in Congenital Rubella Syndrome and lead to severe birth defects, underscoring the importance of adequate prevention. All three viruses are highly contagious and transmitted through the oral/respiratory mucosal tissue by contact with infected respiratory secretions. Importantly, in recent years approximately 30% of measles cases and up to half of mumps cases have been found to occur in individuals receiving at least 2 previous MMR doses, suggesting waning immunity. Although seroconversion after two doses of mumps vaccine (as MMR) nears 90-100%, field effectiveness is closer to 88% (range 75-95%). Booster immunization, however, is not currently indicated in adults. Furthermore, while serum virus-neutralizing antibodies are evaluated as an indicator of responsiveness following mumps vaccination, they are not the correlate of protective immunity. There is need to better understand both 1) The duration of vaccine-elicited protection to all three viruses; and 2) The underlying protective immune mechanisms elicited by vaccination. Assessments of vaccine responses most often utilize blood to evaluate the establishment of circulating immunity, typically antibodies, in individuals. While antibody responses may predict response to vaccination they may or may not be the immune subset actually responsible for protection. Furthermore, circulating immune responses detectable in the blood are not necessarily representative of responses occurring at mucosal sites. Samples such as saliva, sputum or nasal washes, in contrast, can be collected with relative ease, and can provide insights into the oral and respiratory mucosal environments, which are primary sites of pathogen exposure. Understanding whether specific vaccines elicit immune responses at mucosal sites, that are detectable using minimally-invasive techniques, that correlate with protection from disease, or that can act as a surrogate for circulating responses, would be highly valuable in immune monitoring. With this study the investigators plan to evaluate persisting measles, mumps and rubella seropositivity in previously-vaccinated adults and to assess whether anti-viral immune responses are detectable in saliva (representative of the oral mucosa) as well as how these compare to circulating responses detectable in the blood. In a random subset of study participants they will offer a booster immunization and subsequently evaluate mucosal and circulating immune responses in the saliva, nasal washes (representative of the oral and respiratory mucosae) and blood 7 and 28 days and 1 year post-vaccination to determine whether additional predictive indicators for measles, mumps and/or rubella immunity can be identified. Significantly, the proposed study has the potential to 1) Provide unique insights into similarities and differences between mucosal and circulating anti-viral immune responses to MMR vaccination as well as the duration of such responses; 2) Aid in the identification of a correlate of immune protection or novel indicator of responsiveness to mumps (and possibly measles and rubella) vaccination; and 3) Improve immune monitoring after MMR vaccination by using saliva and/or nasal washes to reduce invasiveness and provide a proof-of-concept for future studies. ;


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NCT number NCT05894395
Study type Interventional
Source University of Zurich
Contact Phung Lang, Ph.D.
Phone +41 44 634 46 72
Email phung.lang@uzh.ch
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 3
Start date December 1, 2023
Completion date September 1, 2025

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