Outcomes of controlled human malaria infection after BCG vaccination.
Abstract
Recent evidence suggests that certain vaccines, including Bacillus-Calmette Guérin (BCG), can induce changes in the innate immune system with non-specific memory characteristics, termed trained immunity. Here we present the results of a randomised, controlled phase 1 clinical trial in 20 healthy male and female volunteers to evaluate the induction of immunity and protective efficacy of the anti-tuberculosis BCG vaccine against a controlled human malaria infection. After malaria challenge infection, BCG vaccinated volunteers present with earlier and more severe clinical adverse events, and have significantly earlier expression of NK cell activation markers and a trend towards earlier phenotypic monocyte activation. Furthermore, parasitemia in BCG vaccinated volunteers is inversely correlated with increased phenotypic NK cell and monocyte activation. The combined data demonstrate that BCG vaccination alters the clinical and immunological response to malaria, and form an impetus to further explore its potential in strategies for clinical malaria vaccine development.
| Authors: | Walk J, de Bree LCJ, Graumans W, Stoter R, van Gemert GJ, van de Vegte-Bolmer M, Teelen K, Hermsen CC, Arts RJW, Behet MC, Keramati F, Moorlag SJCFM, Yang ASP, van Crevel R, Aaby P, de Mast Q, van der Ven AJAM, Stabell Benn C, Netea MG, Sauerwein RW. |
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| Journal: | Nat Commun. 2019 Feb 20;10(1):874 |
| Year: | 2019 |
| PubMed: | Find in PubMed |