DECRYPTION – Specialists underline the delay in the development of a vaccine candidate. Especially since the consequences of RSV are far from negligible.
For more than twenty years, a monoclonal antibody has been used to protect infants against RSV. Palivizumab, which is very expensive, has however been reserved since 1999 for children with a very high risk of severe forms of RSV bronchiolitis: premature babies born at less than 35 weeks and aged less than 6 months at the start of the seasonal epidemic, and children under 2 years of age who have required treatment for bronchopulmonary dysplasia within the last six months, or who have severe congenital heart disease.
It is delivered via a painful intramuscular injection every month during the winter season and specialists are therefore eagerly awaiting the results of a large European study with another monoclonal antibody, nirsevimab, which the European Medicines Agency has recommended. marketing authorization in September. This study could lead to a marketing from 2023 of this treatment which only requires an injection…
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