Promising strategy for developing mRNA-based universal influenza virus vaccine for human population, poultry, and pigs– focus on the bigger picture

Since the first outbreak in the 19th century influenza virus has remained emergent owing to the huge pandemic potential. Only the pandemic of 1918 caused more deaths than any war in world history. Although two types of influenza– A (IAV) and B (IBV) cause epidemics annually, influenza A deserves mor...

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Main Authors: Nino Rcheulishvili, Dimitri Papukashvili, Cong Liu, Yang Ji, Yunjiao He, Peng George Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1025884/full
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author Nino Rcheulishvili
Dimitri Papukashvili
Cong Liu
Yang Ji
Yunjiao He
Peng George Wang
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Yang Ji
Yunjiao He
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description Since the first outbreak in the 19th century influenza virus has remained emergent owing to the huge pandemic potential. Only the pandemic of 1918 caused more deaths than any war in world history. Although two types of influenza– A (IAV) and B (IBV) cause epidemics annually, influenza A deserves more attention as its nature is much wilier. IAVs have a large animal reservoir and cause the infection manifestation not only in the human population but in poultry and domestic pigs as well. This many-sided characteristic of IAV along with the segmented genome gives rise to the antigenic drift and shift that allows evolving the new strains and new subtypes, respectively. As a result, the immune system of the body is unable to recognize them. Importantly, several highly pathogenic avian IAVs have already caused sporadic human infections with a high fatality rate (~60%). The current review discusses the promising strategy of using a potentially universal IAV mRNA vaccine based on conserved elements for humans, poultry, and pigs. This will better aid in averting the outbreaks in different susceptible species, thus, reduce the adverse impact on agriculture, and economics, and ultimately, prevent deadly pandemics in the human population.
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spelling doaj.art-f0d590b922c1462bb84c36b1de9fd3ac2022-12-22T04:06:48ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Immunology1664-32242022-10-011310.3389/fimmu.2022.10258841025884Promising strategy for developing mRNA-based universal influenza virus vaccine for human population, poultry, and pigs– focus on the bigger pictureNino RcheulishviliDimitri PapukashviliCong LiuYang JiYunjiao HePeng George WangSince the first outbreak in the 19th century influenza virus has remained emergent owing to the huge pandemic potential. Only the pandemic of 1918 caused more deaths than any war in world history. Although two types of influenza– A (IAV) and B (IBV) cause epidemics annually, influenza A deserves more attention as its nature is much wilier. IAVs have a large animal reservoir and cause the infection manifestation not only in the human population but in poultry and domestic pigs as well. This many-sided characteristic of IAV along with the segmented genome gives rise to the antigenic drift and shift that allows evolving the new strains and new subtypes, respectively. As a result, the immune system of the body is unable to recognize them. Importantly, several highly pathogenic avian IAVs have already caused sporadic human infections with a high fatality rate (~60%). The current review discusses the promising strategy of using a potentially universal IAV mRNA vaccine based on conserved elements for humans, poultry, and pigs. This will better aid in averting the outbreaks in different susceptible species, thus, reduce the adverse impact on agriculture, and economics, and ultimately, prevent deadly pandemics in the human population.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1025884/fullinfluenza virusavian influenzauniversal vaccinemRNA vaccineepidemicspandemics
spellingShingle Nino Rcheulishvili
Dimitri Papukashvili
Cong Liu
Yang Ji
Yunjiao He
Peng George Wang
Promising strategy for developing mRNA-based universal influenza virus vaccine for human population, poultry, and pigs– focus on the bigger picture
Frontiers in Immunology
influenza virus
avian influenza
universal vaccine
mRNA vaccine
epidemics
pandemics
title Promising strategy for developing mRNA-based universal influenza virus vaccine for human population, poultry, and pigs– focus on the bigger picture
title_full Promising strategy for developing mRNA-based universal influenza virus vaccine for human population, poultry, and pigs– focus on the bigger picture
title_fullStr Promising strategy for developing mRNA-based universal influenza virus vaccine for human population, poultry, and pigs– focus on the bigger picture
title_full_unstemmed Promising strategy for developing mRNA-based universal influenza virus vaccine for human population, poultry, and pigs– focus on the bigger picture
title_short Promising strategy for developing mRNA-based universal influenza virus vaccine for human population, poultry, and pigs– focus on the bigger picture
title_sort promising strategy for developing mrna based universal influenza virus vaccine for human population poultry and pigs focus on the bigger picture
topic influenza virus
avian influenza
universal vaccine
mRNA vaccine
epidemics
pandemics
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1025884/full
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