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CompletedNCT02071758Updated Feb 23, 2016

Phase 1 LEISH-F3 + SLA-SE Vaccine Trial in Healthy Adult Volunteers

A Phase 1 interventional study of LEISH-F3 + SLA-SE and LEISH-F3 + GLA-SE in Visceral Leishmaniasis, sponsored by Access to Advanced Health Institute (AAHI). Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 49 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-02-23.

Sponsored by Access to Advanced Health Institute (AAHI) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
39
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years to 49 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity in healthy adult subjects of an investigational vaccine being developed for the prevention of visceral leishmaniasis.

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Conditions studied

  • Visceral Leishmaniasis

Keywords

  • Leishmaniasis
  • Visceral leishmaniasis
  • Vaccine
  • Adjuvant
  • GLA
  • SLA
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In context

Leishmaniasis, Visceral

68 studies on the registry are indexed under Leishmaniasis, Visceral; 7 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 39 is below the median of 132 across 48 interventional studies indexed under Leishmaniasis, Visceral.

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Lead sponsor

Access to Advanced Health Institute (AAHI) is the lead sponsor of 16 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 49 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Males and females 18 to 49 years of age.
  • Must be in good general health as confirmed by a medical history and physical exam.
  • Female subjects must have a negative serum pregnancy test at screening and a negative urine pregnancy test on the day of each study vaccination, must not be breast-feeding, and are required to use one of the following methods of during the first 3 months of the study: hormonal (e.g., oral, transdermal, intravaginal, implant, or injection); double barrier (i.e., condom, diaphragm with spermicide); intrauterine device (IUD) or system (IUS); vasectomized partner (6 months minimum); abstinence; or bilateral tubal ligation (if no conception post-procedure). These precautions are necessary due to unknown effects that LEISH-F3 + SLA-SE or LEISH-F3 + GLA-SE might cause in a fetus or newborn infant.
  • The following screening laboratory values must be within the normal ranges or not as determined by the PI and Medical Monitor (MM): sodium, potassium, BUN, , AST, total , alkaline phosphatase, creatinine, fasting glucose, total WBC count, , and count.
  • The following serology tests must be negative: 1/2 antibody, surface antigen (HBsAg), and virus (HCV) antibody.
  • Negative urine test for recreational drugs and alcohol per Clinical Research Unit standards.
  • Urinalysis not clinically significant as determined by the study clinician.
  • Must be capable of completing a study memory aid in English.
  • Must give , be able and willing to make all evaluation visits, be reachable by telephone or personal contact by the study site personnel, and have a permanent address.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • History of possible infection with Leishmania or previous exposure to Leishmania vaccines or experimental products containing SLA or GLA.
  • Veterans who served in the military in the Middle East (Iran, Iraq), Afghanistan, or any other areas endemic to Leishmania.
  • Travelers to, or immigrants from, areas endemic to Leishmania.
  • Participation in another experimental protocol or receipt of any products within the past 3 months.
  • Treatment with drugs (e.g., oral or injected , such as prednisone; high dose inhaled steroids) or cytotoxic therapies (e.g., chemotherapy drugs or radiation) within the past 6 months.
  • Received a blood transfusion within the past 3 months.
  • Donated blood products (, whole blood, plasma, etc.) within past one month.
  • Received any vaccine within past 1 month and no planned immunizations while on study with the exception of seasonal influenza vaccine which should not be given between Day 0-84 or Day 138-168 due to 30-day prior to immunology blood draws.
  • History of disease or other causes of immunosuppressive states.
  • History or evidence of any acute or chronic illness (including cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, hepatic, rheumatic, hematological, metabolic, or renal disorders, controlled hypertension), or use of medication that, in the opinion of the Principal Investigator, may interfere with the evaluation of the safety or immunogenicity of the vaccine.
  • Rash, tattoos, or any other dermatological condition that could adversely affect the vaccine injection site or interfere with its evaluation.
  • , that in the opinion of the Investigator, poses a health risk.
  • Hypertension (systolic >150 or diastolic >95).
  • History of significant psychiatric illness with current use of medication.
  • Known or suspected alcohol or drug abuse within the past 6 months.
  • Chronic smoker (> 20 pack years).
  • Subjects with a history of previous anaphylaxis or severe allergic reaction to vaccines, eggs, or unknown allergens.
  • Subjects who are unlikely to cooperate with the requirements of the study protocol.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(16)

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Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Washout period

A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
39 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    20 mcg LEISH-F3 + 5 mcg SLA-SE Vaccine

    Three intramuscular injections of LEISH-F3 + SLA-SE at Days 0, 28, and 56. High dose of antigen and low dose of SLA-SE adjuvant.

    Biological: LEISH-F3 + SLA-SE

  • Experimental
    20 mcg LEISH-F3 + 10 mcg GLA-SE Vaccine

    Three intramuscular injections of LEISH-F3 + GLA-SE at Days 0, 28, and 56. High dose of antigen and high dose of GLA-SE adjuvant.

    Biological: LEISH-F3 + GLA-SE

  • Experimental
    5 mcg LEISH-F3 + 10 mcg GLA-SE Vaccine

    Three intramuscular injections of LEISH-F3 + GLA-SE at Days 0, 28, and 56. Low dose of antigen and high dose of GLA-SE adjuvant.

    Biological: LEISH-F3 + GLA-SE

  • Experimental
    20 mcg LEISH-F3 + 10 mcg SLA-SE Vaccine

    Three intramuscular injections of LEISH-F3 + SLA-SE at Days 0, 28, and 56. High dose of antigen and high dose of SLA-SE adjuvant.

    Biological: LEISH-F3 + SLA-SE

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of Adverse Events

    Solicited and unsolicited adverse events will be recorded for 28 days following each study injection; serious adverse events and adverse events of special interest will be recorded for the duration of the study.

    Time frame: 421 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Immunogenicity

    Immunogenicity will be evaluated by measuring humoral and cellular responses to LEISH-F3 + SLA-SE or LEISH-F3 + GLA-SE at specified timepoints.

    Time frame: Days 0, 7, 35, 63, 84, and 168

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Study locations

1 site
  • Covance, Inc.
    Daytona Beach, Florida 32117, United States
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
Not marked actual or estimatedDates not marked actual or estimated

The record gives a start of Apr 2014, a primary completion of Dec 2015 and a completion of Dec 2015. It does not say whether these dates are actual or estimated.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Feb 24, 2014
First posted
Feb 26, 2014
Start
Apr 2014
Primary completionActual
Dec 2015
CompletionActual
Dec 2015
Last update
Feb 23, 2016
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 23, 2016, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02071758
Lead sponsor
Access to Advanced Health Institute (AAHI)
Collaborators
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 26, 2014
Start date
Apr 2014
Primary completion
Dec 2015
Completion
Dec 2015
Last update
Feb 23, 2016

Study contacts

Anna Marie Beckmann, PhD
study director · Access to Advanced Health Institute (AAHI)

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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