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Vaccine 33 (2015) 771–776 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Vaccine j our na l ho me page: www.elsevier.com/locate/vaccine Evaluation of dual nasal delivery of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus and enteric red mouth vaccines in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Scott LaPatra a , Samantha Kao b , Erik B. Erhardt c , Irene Salinas b,a Clear Springs Foods Inc., Buhl, ID, USA b Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA c Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 4 November 2014 Received in revised form 11 December 2014 Accepted 17 December 2014 Available online 3 January 2015 Keywords: Rainbow trout Nasal vaccines Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus Enteric red mouth disease Dual vaccination a b s t r a c t Farmed fish are susceptible to different infectious disease agents including viruses and bacteria. Thus, multivalent vaccines or vaccination programs against two or more pathogens are valuable tools in aqua- culture. Recently, nasal vaccines have been shown to be very effective in rainbow trout. The current study investigates, for the first time, the use of the nasal route in dual vaccination trials against two important aquatic diseases, infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHN) and enteric red mouth (ERM) disease. Rainbow trout received live attenuated IHN virus (IHNV) vaccine and the ERM bacterin using four dif- ferent vaccine delivery methods and were challenged with virulent IHNV or Yersinia ruckeri 7 (100 deg day) and 28 (400 deg day) days post-vaccination. The highest survival rates against IHNV at day 7 were obtained by nasal vaccination either when IHNV and ERM were delivered separately into each nare or when they were premixed and delivered to both nasal rosettes (group D). Protection at 28 days against IHNV was similar in all four vaccinated groups. Early protection against ERM was highest in fish that received each vaccine in separate nares (group B), whereas protection at 28 days was highest in the i.p. vaccinated group (group E), followed by the nasally vaccinated group (group B). Survival results were supported by histological observations of the left and right olfactory organ which showed strong immune responses one day (14 deg days) after vaccination in group B vaccinated fish. These data indicate that dual vaccination against two different pathogens via the nasal route is a very effective vaccination strategy for use in aquaculture, particularly when each nare is used separately during delivery. Further long-term studies should evaluate the contribution of adaptive immunity to the protection levels observed. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Nasal vaccination is an effective method to control infectious diseases. Nasal vaccines are commonly used in humans, as well as in domestic and terrestrial farmed animals such as cats, dogs and cattle. Nasal vaccines offer a number of advantages over other types of vaccines such as strong local and systemic immune responses, a needle free delivery system, and the need for only low amounts of antigen for eliciting an immune response [1]. Abbreviations: i.p., intraperitoneal; i.m., intramuscular; I.N., intranasal; NALT, nasopharynx-associated lymphoid tissue; ERM, enteric red mouth; IHN, infectious hematopoietic necrosis; dpi, days post-immunization; spf, specific-pathogen-free; ppm, parts per million; BH-FDR, Benjamini–Hochberg false discovery rates; PFU, plaque forming unit; CFU, colony forming unit. Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 505 2770039. E-mail address: [email protected] (I. Salinas). Farmed fish are often susceptible to multiple disease agents. Vaccine for use in aquaculture was first implemented in the 1960s and since then, millions if not billions of fish are vaccinated every year worldwide. Administration of commercial fish vaccines is per- formed orally, by immersion, or by injection (intramuscular or intraperitoneal) [2,3]. Although the majority of the fish vaccines are delivered by injection, there is an obvious interest to develop commercial mucosal vaccines that protect both the mucosal and systemic compartments that do not require the use of needles [4]. Apart from single vaccines, polyvalent or multivalent vaccina- tion strategies are a common practice in the aquaculture industry worldwide [5,6]. These polyvalent formulations may consist of both viral and bacterial antigens combined. Recently, the discovery of the nasopharynx-associated lym- phoid tissue (NALT) in teleosts has opened up new avenues for the control of aquatic infectious diseases [7]. Nasal vaccination has been shown to be a very effective tool against infectious http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.055 0264-410X/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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valuation of dual nasal delivery of infectious hematopoietic necrosisirus and enteric red mouth vaccines in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchusykiss)

cott LaPatraa, Samantha Kaob, Erik B. Erhardtc, Irene Salinasb,∗

Clear Springs Foods Inc., Buhl, ID, USACenter for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USAMathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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rticle history:eceived 4 November 2014eceived in revised form1 December 2014ccepted 17 December 2014vailable online 3 January 2015

eywords:ainbow troutasal vaccines

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Farmed fish are susceptible to different infectious disease agents including viruses and bacteria. Thus,multivalent vaccines or vaccination programs against two or more pathogens are valuable tools in aqua-culture. Recently, nasal vaccines have been shown to be very effective in rainbow trout. The current studyinvestigates, for the first time, the use of the nasal route in dual vaccination trials against two importantaquatic diseases, infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHN) and enteric red mouth (ERM) disease.Rainbow trout received live attenuated IHN virus (IHNV) vaccine and the ERM bacterin using four dif-ferent vaccine delivery methods and were challenged with virulent IHNV or Yersinia ruckeri 7 (100 degday) and 28 (400 deg day) days post-vaccination. The highest survival rates against IHNV at day 7 wereobtained by nasal vaccination either when IHNV and ERM were delivered separately into each nare orwhen they were premixed and delivered to both nasal rosettes (group D). Protection at 28 days againstIHNV was similar in all four vaccinated groups. Early protection against ERM was highest in fish thatreceived each vaccine in separate nares (group B), whereas protection at 28 days was highest in the i.p.vaccinated group (group E), followed by the nasally vaccinated group (group B). Survival results were

supported by histological observations of the left and right olfactory organ which showed strong immuneresponses one day (14 deg days) after vaccination in group B vaccinated fish. These data indicate that dualvaccination against two different pathogens via the nasal route is a very effective vaccination strategyfor use in aquaculture, particularly when each nare is used separately during delivery. Further long-termstudies should evaluate the contribution of adaptive immunity to the protection levels observed.

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

. Introduction

Nasal vaccination is an effective method to control infectiousiseases. Nasal vaccines are commonly used in humans, as well as

n domestic and terrestrial farmed animals such as cats, dogs andattle. Nasal vaccines offer a number of advantages over other types

f vaccines such as strong local and systemic immune responses, aeedle free delivery system, and the need for only low amounts ofntigen for eliciting an immune response [1].

Abbreviations: i.p., intraperitoneal; i.m., intramuscular; I.N., intranasal; NALT,asopharynx-associated lymphoid tissue; ERM, enteric red mouth; IHN, infectiousematopoietic necrosis; dpi, days post-immunization; spf, specific-pathogen-free;pm, parts per million; BH-FDR, Benjamini–Hochberg false discovery rates; PFU,laque forming unit; CFU, colony forming unit.∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 505 2770039.

E-mail address: [email protected] (I. Salinas).

ttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.055264-410X/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Farmed fish are often susceptible to multiple disease agents.Vaccine for use in aquaculture was first implemented in the 1960sand since then, millions if not billions of fish are vaccinated everyyear worldwide. Administration of commercial fish vaccines is per-formed orally, by immersion, or by injection (intramuscular orintraperitoneal) [2,3]. Although the majority of the fish vaccinesare delivered by injection, there is an obvious interest to developcommercial mucosal vaccines that protect both the mucosal andsystemic compartments that do not require the use of needles[4]. Apart from single vaccines, polyvalent or multivalent vaccina-tion strategies are a common practice in the aquaculture industryworldwide [5,6]. These polyvalent formulations may consist of bothviral and bacterial antigens combined.

Recently, the discovery of the nasopharynx-associated lym-phoid tissue (NALT) in teleosts has opened up new avenues forthe control of aquatic infectious diseases [7]. Nasal vaccinationhas been shown to be a very effective tool against infectious

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ematopoietic necrosis (IHN) and enteric red mouth disease (ERM)7] in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). In this study, live atten-ated IHN virus (IHNV) vaccine and ERM bacterin vaccine efficaciesere evaluated following single vaccination either intranasal or by

njection vaccination.The present study aims to evaluate the efficacy of nasal vaccines

n rainbow trout and compare this novel delivery method with aumber of methods currently used by the fish farming industry.pecifically, nasal delivery (I.N.) is compared with intramuscu-ar (i.m.) injection, intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection, and immersionoutes. Importantly, we combine, for the first time, nasal deliv-ry of two different vaccines simultaneously (live attenuated IHNVaccine and ERM bacterin) in rainbow trout and evaluate vaccinefficacy against each pathogen in vivo.

. Materials and methods

.1. Animals

One thousand three hundred specific-pathogen-free (spf) rain-ow trout (3 g mean weight) were obtained from Clear Springs

trol) received saline solution into both nares, a 5 min immersion in saline and i.m. in the right nare. Group C received an immersion with ERM and an i.m. injection ofd both vaccines pre-mixed by i.p. injection.

Foods Inc. (Buhl, Idaho). Fish were maintained in 378 l tanks thatreceived single-pass spf spring water at a constant temperature of14.5 ◦C and a dissolved oxygen content of 9.2 ppm. Fish were fedtwice daily a commercial rainbow trout diet (Clear Springs FoodsInc.).

2.2. Vaccination trials and challenges

Vaccination experiments were conducted using two differentvaccine models: an IHNV live attenuated viral vaccine [8] and anERM bacterin [9]. Live attenuated IHNV vaccines offer excellentprotection in salmonids [10] as explained elsewhere [7]. Fish weredivided in five groups of 250 fish each (Fig. 1). Each vaccinationtreatment was conducted in duplicate tanks. A mock-immunizedgroup (group A) received 25 �l of saline (0.85%) intranasally (I.N.)in each nare, 50 �l of saline intraperitoneal (i.p.), and immersed for5 min in saline diluted 1:10 in tank water. Group B fish were vac-

cinated by pipetting 25 �l I.N. of a 1:10 dilution of the stock IHNVvaccine into the left nare and 25 �l I.N. of a 1:10 dilution of thestock ERM vaccine into the right nare. Group C consisted of a 25 �lintramuscular injection (i.m.) of the 1:10 diluted IHNV vaccine and
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Table 1Estimated survival percentages for each treatment combination.

Treatment 7 dpi 28 dpi

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5 min immersion in the ERM vaccine diluted 1:10 in spring water.roup D consisted of 25 �l I.N. delivery into both nares of a 1:1 mixf IHNV and ERM vaccines (previously diluted 1:10). Group E fisheceived a 50 �l i.p. injection of the same vaccine mix.

Duplicate 25-fish groups from each treatment were challengedith either IHNV or Y. ruckeri at 7 (100 deg days) and 28 (400 degays) days post-immunization (dpi) as explained elsewhere [7].

.3. Histology

The heads of five individuals from each experimental groupere collected 1 day post-vaccination in order to investigate the

arly events that take place in the olfactory organ of vaccinated fish.eads were fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin overnight andmbedded in paraffin following standard histological procedures.ive �m-thick sections were stained with hematoxylin–eosin andbserved under a Zeiss Axioscope microscope coupled with a digitalamera using the AxioVision software. Release of mucus contentsrom the goblet cells, blood vessel formation, width of the laminaropria (LP), and leukocyte infiltration were the main features usedo evaluate the nasal immune response of rainbow trout.

.4. Statistical analysis

Because both 25-fish replicates had similar mortality for eachreatment combination, the replicates were pooled, counting theumber of mortalities from each 50-fish treatment combination.xact logistic regression using SAS software (Version 9.3, SASnstitute, Cary NC) models the log odds of the probability of mor-ality for treatment combinations of dpi (7 or 28 dpi), pathogenhallenge (none or unchallenged, ERM, or IHNV), vaccine treat-ent (A–D, or E), with two- and three-way interactions of these

hree predictors. Regular logistic regression using the standardaximum-likelihood-based estimator is unreliable for analyzing

mall, skewed, or sparse data sets, such as when some responsesor combinations of categorical predictor variables have no obser-ations. The estimates given by exact logistic regression do notepend on asymptotic results. A final model for the mortality

Fig. 2. Kaplan–Meier survival curves ag

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dependence pattern observed for each experiment was chosenusing backward selection. Fisher’s exact test of conditional inde-pendence for two-dimensional contingency tables is used forfollow-up tests using the R version 3.1.1 stats package [11] Fishertest() function.

3. Results

The percentage survivals for each treatment and vaccinationtrial are summarized in Table 1. Kaplan–Meier survival curves inFigs. 2 and 3 indicate a similar pattern over treatment combina-tions, that most of the mortalities occur in the second of four weeksof study. Furthermore, tank replicates had similar survival curveshapes and end points. Backward selection resulted in a final exactlogistic regression model including the main effects for the chal-lenge time point (dpi), vaccination treatment, the pathogen fishwere challenged with, a two-way interaction of dpi and vaccinationtreatment, and a two-way interaction of vaccination treatment andpathogen challenge. The Benjamini–Hochberg false discovery rates(BH-FDR) step-up procedure [12] is used over all 125 Fisher tests tocontrol the false discovery rate summarized in Fig. 4 and discussedbelow.

Comparing treatment pairs for each of the two challenge timepoints (dpi) and each pathogen (Supplementary Table 1a and b),each treatment was different from the control group A for each dpiand pathogen combination. In the unchallenged group, no treat-ment pairs differed for either dpi. For ERM 7 dpi, treatment Bdiffered from both C and E, for ERM 28 dpi, treatment E differedfrom both C and D, and for IHNV for 7 dpi, treatment E differedfrom both B and D.

When we compared dpi for each treatment and each pathogen(Supplementary Table 2) observed that vaccinated group E (bothvaccines delivered i.p.) differed for both the ERM and IHNV chal-lenges between 7 and 28 dpi.

Comparing the ERM and IHNV challenges for each dpi and eachvaccination treatment (Supplementary Table 3), we found that onlythe vaccinated group D differed at 7 dpi. Comparing the ERM orIHNV pathogens to the unchallenged group for each dpi and each

ainst IHNV at 7 (a) and 28 dpi (b).

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Fig. 3. Kaplan–Meier survival curves against ERM at 7 (a) and 28 dpi (b).

Fig. 4. Summary of significant pairwise mortality differences using Benjamini–Hochberg (BH-FDR) step-up procedure over all 125 Fisher tests to control the false discoveryin the present study.

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reatment (Supplementary Table 4), the control group A always dif-ered from the rest whereas ERM challenged group C differed for 7pi only. Using a “gold standard” of 0/25 mortalities for the unchal-

enged treatments (Supplementary Table 5), we compared the ERMr IHNV challenged groups to the unchallenged controls (with 0f 25 morts) for each dpi and each treatment. We found that theontrol group A always differed from the rest whereas the ERMhallenged groups C and E differed for 7 dpi.

.1. Histological studies

The olfactory organ of control trout is a pseudostratified epithe-ium that contains both sensory and mucosal portions (Fig. 5a). Theeurosensory epithelium is mostly composed of olfactory sensoryeurons, epithelial cells, and goblet cells. The LP is the connectiveissue underlying the olfactory epithelium and includes axonic ter-

inals from olfactory sensory neurons, as well as vascular tissue. Inroup B, the left and right rosettes were observed separately sincehey received two different vaccines. The left nare (IHNV vaccine)howed signs of an early immune response with goblet cells secret-ng mucus contents into the lumen, some leukocyte infiltration, andncreased numbers of capillaries in the LP (Fig. 5b). The right nare ofsh from group B also showed signs of an immune response to theaccine (Fig. 5c) including leukocyte infiltration, increased densityf capillaries particularly in the apical part of the villi, and activeelease of mucus from goblet cells. These changes were in sharpontrast to those observed in group D, where both vaccines wereremixed and delivered simultaneously to both nares. In this case,he epithelium showed some signs of edema with gaps formingetween the olfactory sensory neurons (Fig. 5e). Leukocyte infiltra-ion and blood vessel formation were not as apparent as in group

vaccinated fish.Group C received IHNV i.m. and ERM by immersion. Thus, any

hanges in the histology of the olfactory organ of these fish are likely

response to the immersion vaccine accessing the olfactory rosette.e found indeed some moderate histological responses in group

olfactory organs compared to controls. These changes were nots profound as those observed in group B (nasal delivery of ERM)

tion. Hematoxylin/eosin stains (N = 4) of (a) group A (control); (b) group B left nare;avity; OE: olfactory epithelium; LP: lamina propria. Black arrows point goblet cells,

, black arrowheads point to lymphocytes (For interpretation of the references to

but some leukocyte accumulations could be observed at the baseof the olfactory epithelium (Fig. 4d). Finally, the olfactory organ ofrainbow trout from group E (i.p. vaccinated fish) was similar to thatof control fish (Fig. 4f), as previously described [7].

4. Discussion

Mucosal vaccines are very promising tools to control infectiousdiseases [13]. There is a need to develop novel and effective mucosalvaccines to use both in humans and veterinary medicine. In aqua-culture, the use of mucosal delivery methods such an immersionvaccination or oral delivery, often results in weaker and more tran-sient immune responses than those elicited by injected vaccines.For this reason, injected vaccines continue to be the most usedvaccines in fish [2].

Nasal vaccines are used in human and (terrestrial) veterinarymedicine to control a number of infectious diseases. Our labora-tory recently discovered the presence of NALT in teleost fish [7], afinding that opened up the possibility of using the nasal route as away to deliver vaccine formulations into farmed fish. Using thesevaccines in a commercial setting requires first pilot experimentalstudies that can optimize how nasal vaccines are best applied toaquaculture.

Vaccination against multiple disease agents in one single manip-ulation is a desirable practice for the fish farming industry.Protection against two or more diseases can be achieved by deliv-ering multivalent recombinant vaccines or by co-administration oftwo or more vaccines at the same time. IHNV vaccines are com-monly delivered by injection, whereas commercial ERM vaccine isdelivered by immersion. We recently discovered that nasal vacci-nation is very effective against IHNV and ERM. In that study, troutwere only vaccinated with one vaccine or the other and deliveredinto the left nare only of each fish [7]. In this particular study wesought to evaluate simultaneous delivery of both IHNV and ERM

vaccines to rainbow trout by a number of routes including nasal,immersion and i.m. and i.p. injection.

Improved mucosal vaccines require the effective induction ofinnate immune responses [14]. From our results it is clear that

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asal vaccines are extremely effective at inducing innate immunitynd conferring early protection against experimental infection. Thisarly protection was the strongest in the nasally vaccinated groupsompared to any other vaccination treatment. This may be due tohe fact that the olfactory organ is highly vascularized and has thebility of the olfactory organ itself to mount a local innate immuneesponse on its own. Other nasal vaccine models have found simi-ar results. For instance, nasal influenza vaccine in mice induced aeak production of local cytokines 3 days post immunization [15].

Nasal delivery with more than one vaccine has been tested in number of mammalian studies [16–22]. For instance, the humannfluenza virus nasal vaccine FluMist is a quadrivalent viral vaccinend trivalent nasal influenza vaccine has been shown to providemmediate protection in children [16]. Combined RSV/PV3 vaccines feasible for simultaneous nasal administration in children [17].owever, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report whereach nare/nostril is used separately to receive a different vaccine.nterestingly, when both the IHNV and ERM vaccines were mixednd delivered into both nares, similar protection was observed tohat when each vaccine was delivered into separate nares. How-ver, in the case of ERM, the best results were obtained when theHNV vaccine was delivered into the left nare and the ERM vaccinento the right nare (group B). Previous work has shown that compo-ents of vaccines can interact synergistically or antagonistically andhat they can stimulate, cross-react with, inhibit, or even suppresshe immune response to specific antigens [5]. Our results indicatehat (i) stimulation of one single olfactory rosette is sufficient tochieve high levels of protection and, (ii) the physico-chemicalroperties of the IHNV and ERM vaccines may be modified whenoth vaccines are pre-mixed and delivered I.N.

Histological observations conducted at day 1 helped us to under-tand the powerful innate immune responses that nasal deliveryriggers in the olfactory organ of fish. This is in agreement withur previous observations regarding single IHNV nasal delivery [7].rom the present study, we can conclude that bacterins are alsoble to elicit local changes in the olfactory epithelium. Both IHNVnd ERM vaccines elicited blood vessel formation, release of nasalucus from goblet cells to the nasal cavity, and leukocyte infiltra-

ion to the olfactory organ. These effects, however, were maskedhen both vaccines were mixed and delivered into both nares.

nterestingly, immersion vaccination with ERM resulted in someistological changes in the olfactory organ. These were milder thanhose observed in the ERM I.N. treatment but suggest that somentigen uptake takes place via the nasal route during immersionaccination. Future studies will address the specific contributionf nasal antigen uptake compared to uptake through the gills andkin, thought to be the major sites of antigen uptake in fish dur-ng immersion vaccination [23]. We did not observe any significanthanges in the olfactory organs of fish that received dual i.p. vac-ination, which is in agreement with previous findings from ouraboratory where the olfactory organ of IHNV i.m. vaccinated troutesembled that of control fish [7].

Whereas nasal vaccines performed best at 7 dpi, at 28 dpi,omparable levels of protection were observed among all fourxperimental groups. Nasal delivery produced results as good ashe established immersion and injection vaccine delivery routes.imilar to our findings at day 7, group B (left and right nare receivedeparate vaccines) was also more effective than group D. This wasrue both for IHNV and ERM indicating that keeping both vac-ines separate rather than premixing them is a better vaccinationtrategy for rainbow trout. Other vaccine combinations targetedo control other diseases need to be tested in order to optimize

asal vaccination regimes. In summary, these results support ourrevious findings using single vaccinations and underscore the

mportance of the nasal route as an important tool to control bothiral and bacterial aquatic infectious diseases in a single vaccination

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event. Future long-term vaccination trials should test the specificityof the protection as well as the contribution of the adaptive immunesystem to the high protection levels conferred by nasal vaccines.

Acknowledgements

Authors wish to thank all the staff members at Clear SpringsFoods Research Division and the Microscopy Core Facility at theUniversity of New Mexico Cancer Research Center. This work wasfunded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant P20GM103452.

Appendix A. Supplementary data

Supplementary data associated with this article can befound, in the online version, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.055.

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