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@ARTICLE{Harris:142914,
author = {R. C. Harris and T. Sumner and G. M. Knight and T. Evans
and V. Cardenas and C. Chen$^*$ and R. G. White},
title = {{A}ge-targeted tuberculosis vaccination in {C}hina and
implications for vaccine development: a modelling study.},
journal = {The lancet / Global health Global health [...]},
volume = {7},
number = {2},
issn = {2214-109X},
address = {Oxford},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {DKFZ-2019-00542},
pages = {e209 - e218},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Tuberculosis is the leading single-pathogen cause of death
worldwide, and China has the third largest number of cases
worldwide. New tools, such as new vaccines, are needed to
meet WHO tuberculosis goals. Tuberculosis vaccine
development strategies mostly target infants or adolescents,
but given China's ageing epidemic, vaccinating older people
might be important. We modelled the potential impact of new
tuberculosis vaccines in China targeting adolescents (15-19
years) or older adults (60-64 years) with varying vaccine
characteristics to inform strategic vaccine development.A
Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission model was calibrated
to age-stratified demographic and epidemiological data from
China. Varying scenarios of vaccine implementation (age
targeting [adolescents or older adults] and coverage $[30\%$
or $70\%])$ and characteristics (efficacy $[40\%,$ $60\%,$
or $80\%],$ duration of protection [10 years or 20 years],
and host infection status required for efficacy
[pre-infection, post-infection in latency, post-infection in
latency or recovered, or pre-infection and post-infection])
were assessed. Primary outcomes were tuberculosis incidence
and mortality rate reduction in 2050 in each vaccine
scenario compared with the baseline (no new vaccine)
scenario and cumulative number needed to vaccinate (NNV) per
case or death averted, 2025-50.By 2050, results suggest that
$74·5\%$ (uncertainty interval [UI] 70·2-78·6) of
incident tuberculosis cases in China would occur in people
aged 65 years or older, and $75·1\%$ (66·8-80·7) of all
cases would be due to reactivation, rather than new
infection. All vaccine profiles delivered to older adults
had higher population-level impact (reduction of incidence
and mortality rates) and lower NNV per case and per death
averted than if delivered to adolescents. For an
intermediate vaccine scenario of $60\%$ efficacy, 10-year
protection, and $70\%$ coverage, the reduction of
tuberculosis incidence rates with older adult vaccination
was 1·9 times (UI 1·5-2·6) to 157·5 times
(119·3-225·6) greater than with adolescent vaccination,
and the NNV was 0·011 times (0·008-0·014) to 0·796 times
(0·632-0·970) lower. Furthermore, with older adult
vaccination, post-infection vaccines provided substantially
greater mortality and incidence rate reductions than
pre-infection vaccines.Adolescent-targeted tuberculosis
vaccines, the focus of many development plans, would have
only a small impact in ageing, reactivation-driven epidemics
such as those in China. Instead, an efficacious
post-infection vaccine delivered to older adults will be
crucial to maximise population-level impact in this setting
and would provide an important contribution towards
achieving WHO goals. Older adults should be included in
tuberculosis vaccine clinical development and implementation
planning.Aeras and UK MRC.},
cin = {C070},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)C070-20160331},
pnm = {313 - Cancer risk factors and prevention (POF3-313)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-313},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:30630775},
doi = {10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30452-2},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/142914},
}