A vaccine comprising nanoparticles in association with a Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bacterin, wherein the nanoparticles comprise a cationic polysaccharide and an anionic phospholipid.

An immunogenic gel compositions for oral administration and methods of immunizing an animal the methods including administering to the animal a therapeutically effective amount of an immunogenic gel composition comprising an antigen of an animal pathogen and a gel composition for oral administration.

The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for inducing an immune response to a composition of the invention in a subject. Additionally, the present disclosure generally relates to methods for screening for immune response to a composition of the invention.

The present invention relates to a DNA vaccine comprising a Salmonella typhi Ty21a strain comprising a DNA molecule comprising a eukaryotic expression cassette encoding at least a COVID-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) spike (S) protein or a portion thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to the DNA vaccine for use in the prevention and/or the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) or a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Disclosed herein are compositions comprising use of compositions comprising a live attenuated recombinant Listeria strain comprising a fusion protein of a truncated listeriolysin O (LLO) protein, a truncated ActA protein, or a PEST amino acid sequence fused to a heterologous antigen, including a tumor-associated antigen, wherein the compositions further comprise or are co-administered with an antibody or fragment thereof. Also disclosed are combination therapies comprising use of these compositions comprising live attenuated recombinant Listeria strains, in conjunction with an antibody or fragment thereof for use in treating, protecting against, and/or inducing an immune response against a tumor, especially wherein the treating, protection against and/or inducing an immune response increases percent survival in a subject.

Disclosed are an attenuated live vaccine against mycoplasmal pneumonia of swine (MPS) and use thereof. In the present invention, pathological lung tissues of swine having typical Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (Mhp) infection and no obvious other pathogenic infections are screened, and subcultured 100 generations in lungs of newborn rabbits; then, Mhp strains are isolated and serially subcultured in a medium; and the Mhp strain AN306 is obtained by screening a plurality of strains, which is deposited with an accession number: CCTCC NO. M2012431. Also disclosed is a live vaccine formulation against MPS prepared on the basis of the attenuated strain and comprising live attenuated strain, a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient, and optionally an adjuvant and immunogens of other pathogens.

The invention relates to bacterial infections, vaccines directed against those infections and bacterial vaccines. More particularly, the invention relates to vaccines directed against Streptococcus infections in pigs. The invention provides a ΔFolT mutant of a bacterium having reduced capacity to transport folate, wherein said capacity has been reduced by functionally deleting folate transporter (FolT) function. The invention also provides a method to reduce virulence of a bacterium comprising reducing the capacity of said bacterium to transport folate.

The disclosure features vaccine adjuvants comprising prokaryotic mRNA, and methods of vaccination using the adjuvants. More specifically, the disclosure provides a vaccine composition comprising a nonviable immunogen (e.g., heat-killed bacterium), a tumor antigen, or an immunogenic peptide of microbial or mammalian origin, and an adjuvant, wherein adjuvant comprises prokaryotic mRNA (e.g., bacterial mRNA), as well as the methods of using the vaccine compositions. Further disclosed are the structural features of the prokaryotic mRNA used as the adjuvants.

A mutated Bordetella strain comprising at least a mutated ptx gene, a deleted or mutated dnt gene and a heterologous ampG gene is provided. The attenuated mutated Bordetella strain can be used in an immunogenic composition or a vaccine for the treatment or prevention of a Bordetella infection. Use of the attenuated Bordetella strain for the manufacture of a vaccine or immunogenic composition, as well as methods for protecting mammals against infection by Bordetella are also provided.

Methods of producing a pathogen with reduced replicative fitness are disclosed, as are attenuated pathogens produced using the methods. In particular examples, the method includes deoptimizing one or more codons in a coding sequence, thereby reducing the replicative fitness of the pathogen. Methods of using the attenuated pathogens as immunogenic compositions are also disclosed.