• Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity in Q Fever Vaccine Development
  • rezvan babaee,1 mahdi moradi,2 fateme zolfkhani,3 Elaheh oliyaei,4,*
    1. Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Khorramabad University of Medical Sciences, Iran
    2. Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Khorramabad University of Medical Sciences, Iran
    3. Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
    4. Faculty of Paramedicine, Department of medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Science, Bushehr, Iran


  • Introduction: Cornell Burnett, an obligate intracellular bacterium which, in humans, motives the contamination Q fever.it may purpose some of immoderate syndromes. Vaccination is as an alternative a fulfillment for prevention of numerous infectious diseases. This examines gives a pinnacle stage view of past and modern research on Q fever vaccine development, our statistics of immunogenicity and reactogenicity c. burnetii.
  • Methods: In the forthcoming systematic study, the required data were collected using keywords and citing valid databases such as: Scopus PubMed, Google Scholar and ProQuest. The statistical population of the study includes all studies conducted up to 2022 in the field of Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity in Q Fever Vaccine Development. After reviewing the relevant findings and evaluating the data quality, a total of 17 articles were analyzed.
  • Results: Elimination of this bacterium is as an alternative difficult, and vaccination is considered the extraordinary approach for prevention of infection in humans. Many vaccines in competition to C. burnetii were developed, but, best, a formalin-inactivated, whole mobileular vaccine derived from virulent. The best currently certified vaccine for use in humans is Q-VAX (Sequa’s), an entire mobileular, formalin-inactivated vaccine. Although this vaccine gives an immoderate diploma of prolonged-term protection in competition to infection, immoderate network and systemic reactions are often reported, especially in people with preceding exposure to C. Burnetii and, Individuals receiving Q-VAX need to first undergo pre vaccination screening which encompass anti-C. Burnetii antibody titers and an intradermal pores and pores and pores and pores and skin test, a way which gives every fee and time to vaccination. As surrender to forestall end result of this barrier to vaccine availability, many research groups have investigated novel vaccines in competition to C. burnetii with diverse levels of fulfillment in equaling the defensive efficacy of Q-VAX on the identical time as reducing reactogenicity. The future of Q fever vaccine development may additionally be described via manner of the favored features of a next-generation, superior vaccine. The use of Q-Vax and top-notch segment I WCVs as Theoretical stepping stones will likely allow for the rational popularity quo of those features. Phase I WCVs show many benefits which encompass outstanding immunogenicity, stimulation of prolonged lasting immunity, and a single-dose immunization regimen. The downsides of segment I WCVs encompass the capability for a PVH response and the accompanying bulky Pre-vaccination screening way at the issue of producing problems However, a growing wealth of facts of the defensive mechanisms of host immune responses to C. burnetii, investigations into the pathogenesis of reactogenicity to whole mobileular C. burnetii vaccines, and traits in novel vaccine generation can help facilitate development of greater strong vaccines in competition to this pathogen. Preventing their tremendous use. Antibody-mediated immunity on my own cannot manipulate infection.
  • Conclusion: Through those observations, it's far apparent That a complicated Q fever vaccine would possibly probably mitigate the capability for a post-vaccination Hypersensitivity response, set off protection at a comparable diploma to segment I WCVs, and Be administered via a single-dose regimen. The direction to a non-reactive Q fever vaccine that is trustworthy but require statistics of antigenic desires and immunologic responses that the C. burnetii location has now not but ascertained. As we preserve to remedy the mechanisms of C. burnetii–host interactions ،we're capin a role to flow into closer to a next-generation Q fever vaccine so that you can benefit humans throughout the world.
  • Keywords: immunoinformatics ، Coxiella burnetii Infection، Q Fever Vaccine ،multi-epitope vaccine