Piglet immunization with a spike subunit vaccine enhances disease by porcine epidemic diarrhea virus

  • Jieshi Yu
  • , Chithra Sreenivasan
  • , Tirth Uprety
  • , Rongyuan Gao
  • , Chen Huang
  • , Ella J. Lee
  • , Steven Lawson
  • , Julie Nelson
  • , Jane Christopher-Hennings
  • , Radhey S. Kaushik
  • , Eric Nelson
  • , Diego G. Diel
  • , Ben M. Hause
  • , Feng Li
  • , Dan Wang

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Abstract

Immunization with an insect cell lysate/baculovirus mixture containing recombinant porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) spike protein induced high levels of neutralizing antibodies in both mice and piglets. However, immunization of piglets with this vaccine resulted in enhancement of disease symptoms and virus replication in vaccine recipients exposed to PEDV challenge. Thus, these observations demonstrate a previously unrecognized challenge of PEDV vaccine research, which has important implications for coronavirus vaccine development.

Original languageEnglish
Article number22
Journalnpj Vaccines
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2021

Bibliographical note

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Funding

We thank Katherine Meyer for her excellent assistance in animal experiments. The work was supported by USDA/NIFA 2016-67016-24949, Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, and William Robert Mills Endowment Fund.

FundersFunder number
William Robert Mills Endowment Fund
U.S. Department of Agriculture
US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative2016-67016-24949
US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Immunology
    • Pharmacology
    • Infectious Diseases
    • Pharmacology (medical)

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