Safety, Reactogenicity and Immunogenicity of Vi-DT;Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine

Launched by INTERNATIONAL VACCINE INSTITUTE · May 16, 2018

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ClinConnect Summary

This study is carried out in healthy children aged 6 to 23 months at a single site. A total of 285 participants are enrolled, 114, 114 and 57 participants are randomized to either the single dose, two-dose Vi-DT regimens or placebo/comparator group, respectively within age strata. Three age strata is 6 to less than 9 months, 9 to 12 months and 13 to 23 months. The investigators allow the 9-12 months old children to receive Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine concomitantly with Vi-DT vaccine and descriptive analysis of immune response to MMR only and to MMR and Vi-DT vaccines are performed t...

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Healthy infants and children 6-23 months of age at enrollment as determined by medical history, physical examination and clinical judgment of the investigator
• • Birth weight ≥ 2500 g
• • ≥ 37 weeks of pregnancy or judge to be full-term by the midwife or birth attendant
• • Parents aged 18 years and above and legal guardians aged 21 years and above as per the legal authorization in the Philippines, who have voluntarily given informed consent
• • Parents/ legal guardians willing to follow the study procedures of the study and available for the entire duration of the study
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Child with a congenital abnormality
• • Subject with abnormal routine biological values at screening
• • Subject concomitantly enrolled or scheduled to be enrolled in another trial
• • Acute illness, in particular infectious disease or fever (axillary temperature ≥37.5°C), within three days prior to enrolment and vaccination
• • Known history of immune function disorders including immunodeficiency diseases, or chronic use of systemic steroids (\>20 mg/day prednisone equivalent for periods exceeding 10 days), cytotoxic or other immunosuppressive drugs
• • Child with a previously ascertained or suspected disease caused by S. typhi
• • Child who have had household contact with/and or intimate exposure to an individual with laboratory-confirmed S. typhi
• • Known history or allergy to vaccines or other medications
• • Know history of allergy to eggs, chicken protein, neomycin and formaldehyde
• • History of uncontrolled coagulopathy or blood disorders
• • Mother has known HIV infection or other immune function disorders
• • Any abnormality or chronic disease which in the opinion of the investigator might be detrimental for the safety of the subject and interfere with the assessment of the study objectives
• • Child whose parents or legal guardian planning to move from the study area before the end of study period