Horizontal transmission of rhesus monkey rotavirus-based quadrivalent vaccine during a phase 3 clinical trial in Caracas, Venezuela

J Infect Dis. 2003 Mar 1;187(5):791-800. doi: 10.1086/368387. Epub 2003 Feb 24.

Abstract

During a phase 3 clinical trial of rhesus monkey rotavirus-based quadrivalent vaccine in Venezuela, 2207 infants received 3 oral doses of vaccine (4 x 105 plaque-forming units/dose) or placebo at ages approximately 2, 3, and 4 months; 219 (14%) of 1537 stools obtained during 1550 diarrheal episodes in postvaccination surveillance were rotavirus-positive by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. With the use of various VP7 and VP4 primers for genotyping purposes, 213 of 219 rotavirus-positive stools were analyzed by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction. Twenty-nine (14%) of 213 rotavirus-positive stools contained at least 2 distinct rotavirus strains: a low-titered vaccine strain(s) and a second strain that, when possible, was studied further and found to be a wild-type rotavirus strain. The titer of vaccine viruses in 19 stools that plaqued directly in cell cultures ranged from 10(1) to 10(3) plaque-forming units/0.5 mL of a 10% stool suspension. Reassortants of vaccine virus and wild-type human rotavirus were not detected.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Clinical Trial, Phase III
  • Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antigens, Viral*
  • Capsid Proteins / genetics
  • Diarrhea / prevention & control
  • Diarrhea / virology*
  • Feces / virology
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Nucleic Acid Hybridization
  • Rotavirus / classification
  • Rotavirus / genetics
  • Rotavirus / immunology
  • Rotavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Rotavirus Infections / prevention & control*
  • Rotavirus Infections / virology
  • Rotavirus Vaccines*
  • Serotyping
  • Vaccines, Attenuated
  • Venezuela
  • Viral Plaque Assay

Substances

  • Antigens, Viral
  • Capsid Proteins
  • Rotavirus Vaccines
  • VP4 protein, Rotavirus
  • VP7 protein, Rotavirus
  • Vaccines, Attenuated
  • rhesus rotavirus vaccine