African green monkeys provide a useful nonhuman primate model for the study of human parainfluenza virus types-1, -2, and -3 infection.
Human parainfluenza virus (HPIV) types-1, -2, and -3 are significant causes of both upper and lower respiratory tract disease in infants and children. Although there are two live attenuated vaccines for the prevention of HPIV-3 disease in phase 1 clinical trials, vaccines are not currently available for prevention of HPIV-1 or -2 disease. Our laboratory is developing candidate vaccines for the prevention of HPIV-1, -2, and -3 disease, and a suitable nonhuman primate model is needed for evaluation of these vaccine candidates prior to administration to humans. We evaluated the replication of HPIV-1 and -2 in six different species of nonhuman primates and found both viruses to replicate most efficiently in African green monkeys and chimpanzees. We then compared the replication of HPIV-3 in African green monkeys to that in rhesus macaques, which we have used previously, and found that HPIV-3 replicated to higher titer in African green monkeys. In summary, African green monkeys provide a very useful nonhuman primate for the evaluation of HPIV-1, -2, and -3 vaccine candidates, especially for the evaluation of various combinations of these PIV vaccines and for vaccine strategies that employ sequential immunization.
Durbin
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Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA. adurbin@nih.gov
Elkins
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WR
Murphy
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BR
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