A novel consortium used as potent vaccine for treating of enteric fever, comprised of isolated Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs) taken from two different strains of typhoidal Salmonella species.

The present invention is directed to methods and agents used for treating cancer in Toll-Like Receptor 5-expressing tissues by providing a Toll-Like Receptor agonist such as flagellin. The present invention also relates to protecting the liver from a liver toxicity using a Toll-like receptor agonist.

The present invention relates to an attenuated strain of Salmonella comprising at least one copy of a DNA molecule comprising an expression cassette encoding Wilms' Tumor Protein (WT1), for use in the treatment of cancer, wherein the treatment further comprises the administration of at least one checkpoint inhibitor, particularly selected from at least one antibody against PD-1, PD-L1, CTLA-4, IDO, OX-40, GITR, TIM-3, and LAG-3. The present invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an attenuated strain of Salmonella comprising at least one copy of a DNA molecule comprising an expression cassette encoding WT1 for use in the treatment of cancer, wherein the treatment further comprises the administration of at least one checkpoint inhibitor, particularly selected from at least one antibody against PD-1, PD-L1, CTLA-4, IDO, OX-40, GITR, TIM-3, and LAG-3.

Antigenic molecules and compositions described herein protect against infection by typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars. Methods of immunization comprise the use of the antigenic molecules.

Provided are delivery immunostimulatory bacteria that have enhanced colonization of tumors, the tumor microenvironment and/or tumor-resident immune cells, and enhanced anti-tumor activity. The immunostimulatory bacteria are modified by deletion of genes encoding the flagella, or by modification of the genes so that functional flagella are not produced, and/or are modified by deletion of pagP or modification of pagP to produce inactive PagP product. As a result, the immunostimulatory bacteria are flagellin.sup.− and/or pagP.sup.−. The immunostimulatory bacteria optionally have additional genomic modifications so that the bacteria are adenosine or purine auxotrophs. The bacteria optionally are one or more of asd.sup.−, purI.sup.−, and msbB.sup.−. The immunostimulatory bacteria, such as Salmonella species, are modified to encode immunostimulatory proteins that confer anti-tumor activity in the tumor microenvironment, and/or are modified so that the bacteria preferentially infect immune cells in the tumor microenvironment, or tumor-resident immune cells, and/or are modified to induce less cell death in immune cells than in other cells. Also provided are methods of inhibiting the growth or reducing the volume of a solid tumor by administering the immunostimulatory bacteria.

The present invention provides compositions and methods of inducing an immune response in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject an immunologically-effective amount of a live Salmonella typhi vector, wherein the Salmonella typhi vector has been engineered to express one or more antigens; an outer membrane folding protein Barn A or a fragment or variant thereof; and a lipid A deacylase PagL or a fragment or variant thereof, wherein the Salmonella typhi vector is capable of delivering the antigen to a mucosal tissue via an outer membrane vesicle when administered to a subject.

The present disclosure describes a self-sprayer device for self-administering an animal product to an animal and providing environmental enrichment to the animal.

Outer membrane vesicles from bacteria of the Burkholderia pseudomallei complex can be used as adjuvants in compositions and methods to potentiate the immune response to immunogens.

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 provided technology is in the field of conjugating native, non-detergent extracted, outer membrane vesicles (nOMV) to antigens to form nOMV-linker-antigen conjugates, which are particularly useful for immunogenic compositions and immunisation; processes for the preparation and use of such conjugates is also provided.