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Bridging the Efficacy of GARDASIL from Young Adult Women to Adolescent Girls

A clinical study compared anti-HPV 6, anti-HPV 11, anti-HPV 16, and anti-HPV 18 GMTs in 10- to 15-year-old girls with responses in 16- to 23-year-old adolescent and young adult women. Among subjects who received GARDASIL, 99.1 to 100% became anti-HPV 6, anti-HPV 11, anti-HPV 16, and anti-HPV 18 seropositive by 1 month Postdose 3.

Table 5 compares the 1 month Postdose 3 anti-HPV 6, anti-HPV 11, anti-HPV 16, and anti-HPV 18 GMTs in 9- to 15-year-old girls with those in 16- to 26-year-old adolescent and young adult women.

Table 5
Immunogenicity Bridging Between 9- to 15-year-old Female Adolescents and 16- to 26-year-old Adult Women

Assay
(cLIA)
9- to 15-year-old Female Adolescents
(Protocols 016 and 018)
N = 1121
16- to 26-year-old Adult Women
(Protocols 013 and 015)
N = 4229
n
GMT
(95% CI)
n
GMT
95% CI
Anti-HPV 6
927
931.3
(876.9, 989.2)
2827
542.4
(526.6, 558.7)
Anti-HPV 11
927
1305.7
(1226.2, 1390.4)
2827
766.1
(740.5, 792.6)
Anti-HPV 16
929
4944.9
(4583.5, 5334.8)
2707
2313.8
(2206.2, 2426.7)
Anti-HPV 18
932
1046.0
(971.2, 1126.5)
3040
460.7
(443.8, 478.3)
Note: GMT = Geometric mean titer in mMU/mL (mMU = milli-Merck units).

Anti-HPV responses 1 month Postdose 3 among 9- to 15-year-old girls were non-inferior to anti-HPV responses in 16- to 26-year-old adolescent and young adult women in the combined database of immunogenicity studies for GARDASIL.

On the basis of this immunogenicity bridging, the efficacy of GARDASIL in 9- to 15-year-old girls is inferred.

Studies with Other Vaccines

The safety and immunogenicity of co-administration of GARDASIL with hepatitis B vaccine (recombinant) (same visit, injections at separate sites) were evaluated in a randomized study of 1871 women aged 16 to 24 years at enrollment. Immune response to both hepatitis B vaccine (recombinant) and GARDASIL was non-inferior whether they were administered at the same visit or at a different visit.

Brand Name: Gardasil
Generic Name: Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (Types 6, 11, 16, 18) Recombinant Vaccine

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