Single administration vaccines: delivery challenges, in vivo performance, and translational considerations

Kyprianos Michaelides, Maruthi Prasanna, Raj Badhan, Afzal-Ur-Rahman Mohammed, Adam Walters, M. Keith Howard, Pawan Dulal, Ali Al-Khattawi

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Abstract

Introduction
With a limited global supply of vaccines and an increasing vaccine hesitancy, improving vaccination coverage has become a priority. Current vaccination regimes require multiple doses to be administered in a defined schedule where missed doses may lead to incomplete vaccine coverage and failure of immunization programmes. As such, there is an ever-increasing demand to convert multi-dose injectable vaccines into single-dose formats, often called single administration vaccines (SAVs).

Areas covered
This review summarizes recent developments in the field of SAVs, with a focus on pulsatile or controlled-release formulations. It will identify the technical challenges, translational as well as commercial barriers to SAVs development. Furthermore, the progress of SAV formulations for hepatitis B and polio vaccines will be reviewed thoroughly as case studies, with a focus on the development challenges and the preclinical immunogenicity/reactogenicity data.

Expert opinion
Despite the efforts to develop SAVs, few attempts have advanced to Phase-I trials. Considering the SAV development journey and bottlenecks, including commercial barriers from the early stages, may overcome some of the hurdles around the technology. The renewed global focus on vaccines since the COVID-19 pandemic could facilitate development of a new generation of technologies for pandemic preparedness including strategies for SAVs.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)579-595
Number of pages17
JournalExpert Review of Vaccines
Volume22
Issue number1
Early online date4 Jul 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Dec 2023

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Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.

Keywords

  • Hepatitis B vaccine
  • PLGA
  • Single administration vaccines
  • commercialization
  • microsphere formulation
  • multiple dose vaccine
  • vaccine controlled release
  • vaccine stability

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