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ArticleVaccines2025

Effects of Different Adjuvants on the Protective Efficacy of a Subcellular Vaccine Against

Morag Livingstone, Kevin Aitchison, Javier Palarea-Albaladejo, Sergio Gastón Caspe, Clare Underwood, Holly Hill, Cameron Cunnea, Kelly Stronach, Francesca Chianini, Gary Entrican and 2 more

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Article in Vaccines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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12 authors.

Morag LivingstoneMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2747-851X
Kevin AitchisonMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.
Javier Palarea-AlbaladejoBiomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0162-669X
Sergio Gastón CaspeMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.
Clare UnderwoodMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.
Holly HillMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8769-5831
Cameron CunneaMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.
Kelly StronachMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.
Francesca ChianiniMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9962-446X
Gary EntricanMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8822-2331
Sean Ranjan WattegederaMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2218-5144
David LongbottomMoredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0PZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0086-8443

Funding

Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Not applicable
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND/

objectiveRecently, we published three studies describing the development and optimization of a new, safe, and efficacious vaccine to protect sheep from ovine enzootic abortion, which is caused by the zoonotic pathogen

methodsWe evaluated the effectiveness of three different vaccines (2.5 µg COMC) formulated with one of three adjuvants (Montanide ISA 70VG, Montanide ISA 61VG, and QuilA) to reduce the rate of abortion, placental load and pathology, and post-partum vaginal shedding of organisms in comparison to our benchmark 20 µg COMC/Montanide ISA 70 VG vaccine and a challenge control group of animals. The humoral and cellular immunological responses to vaccination and to challenge were also assessed.

resultsThe two low-dose Montanide formulated vaccines resulted in low abortion rates of 3.2 and 8.1% for ISA 70 VG and ISA 61 VG, respectively, which were comparable to the benchmark vaccine group (2.7%) and considerably lower than the QuilA (23.7%) and challenge control (36.8%) groups. Similarly, the Montanide-adjuvanted groups had much lower bacterial loads (range: 136-431 genome copies) on vaginal swabs post-parturition than the QuilA (8.9 × 10

conclusionsThe results showed that both Montanide adjuvants are more effective for maximizing COMC vaccine efficacy than the QuilA adjuvant and result in much lower bacterial shedding of the pathogen post-parturition, which is important for minimizing potential transmission to naïve animals.

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Chlamydia abortuscytokine analysisgross placental pathologyovine enzootic abortionquantitative real-time PCRserological analysisvaccine developmentvaccine efficacy

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PMID40573940
PMCPMC12197603

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