Albendazole treatment of children with ascariasis enhances the vibriocidal antibody response to the live attenuated oral cholera vaccine CVD 103-HgR

J Infect Dis. 2000 Oct;182(4):1199-206. doi: 10.1086/315837. Epub 2000 Sep 8.

Abstract

Because concurrent infections with geohelminth parasites might impair the immune response to oral vaccines, we studied the vibriocidal antibody response to the oral cholera vaccine CVD 103-HgR in children infected with Ascaris lumbricoides and investigated the effect of albendazole pretreatment on the postvaccination response. Children with ascariasis were randomized to receive either 2 sequential doses of 400 mg of albendazole or placebo. After the second dose, CVD 103-HgR was given, and serum vibriocidal antibody levels were measured before and 10 days after vaccination. Postvaccination rates of seroconversion were greater in the treatment group that received albendazole (P=.06). Significantly greater rates of seroconversion and geometric mean titer were observed in the albendazole group in subjects with non-O ABO blood groups. A significant association was observed between vibriocidal seroconversion rates and treatment group, suggesting that A. lumbricoides infections impair the immune response to oral cholera vaccine, particularly in subjects of non-O blood groups.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Controlled Clinical Trial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Albendazole / therapeutic use*
  • Animals
  • Anthelmintics / therapeutic use*
  • Antibodies, Bacterial / blood*
  • Antibody Formation
  • Ascariasis / drug therapy*
  • Ascariasis / immunology*
  • Ascaris lumbricoides* / drug effects
  • Bacterial Vaccines / immunology*
  • Blood Group Antigens / immunology
  • Child
  • Cholera Vaccines / immunology*
  • Drug Interactions
  • Ecuador
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Trichuris / drug effects
  • Vaccines, Attenuated / immunology*

Substances

  • Anthelmintics
  • Antibodies, Bacterial
  • Bacterial Vaccines
  • Blood Group Antigens
  • Cholera Vaccines
  • Vaccines, Attenuated
  • cholera vaccine CVD 103-HgR
  • Albendazole