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  • Title: Staphylococcal vaccine development: review of past failures and plea for a future evaluation of vaccine efficacy not only on staphylococcal infections but also on mucosal carriage.
    Author: Botelho-Nevers E, Verhoeven P, Paul S, Grattard F, Pozzetto B, Berthelot P, Lucht F.
    Journal: Expert Rev Vaccines; 2013 Nov; 12(11):1249-59. PubMed ID: 24111513.
    Abstract:
    Staphylococcal disease represents a universal burden including acute, life-threatening infections as well as chronic infections usually associated with foreign materials. Infections occur notably in permanent carriers of Staphylococcus aureus. To date, all the attempts to develop an efficacious vaccine against S. aureus have failed. Failures in vaccine clinical trials might be related to a focus on single targets and development of humoral-based vaccines rather than vaccines with a combination of antigens stimulating both humoral and cellular immunity. The end points of these unsuccessful trials were a reduction in mortality or bacteremia, whereas the patient's decolonization was not assessed. Adopting the latter point of view, the aim of this article is to discuss nasal mucosal decolonization as a complementary marker of vaccine efficacy for clinical research in vaccine development.
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