A Phase 1 interventional study of Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF and Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel in Hookworm Infection and Hookworm Disease, sponsored by Baylor College of Medicine. Completed at 1 site in Brazil. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 45 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-12-03.
Sponsored by Baylor College of Medicine · Phase 1, Interventional, and Prevention
Na-GST-1 and Na-APR-1 are proteins expressed during the adult stage of the Necator americanus hookworm life cycle that are thought to play a role in the parasite's degradation of host hemoglobin for use as an energy source. Vaccination wtih recombinant GST-1 or APR-1 has protected dogs and hamsters from infection in challenge studies. This study will evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of co-administering Na-GST-1 and Na-APR-1 to healthy Brazilian adults living in an area of endemic hookworm infection.
Double blind, randomized, controlled, dose-escalation Phase 1 clinical trial in hookworm exposed adults living in the area of Americaninhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Subjects will receive three doses of the assigned vaccine delivered intramuscularly on approximately Days 0, 56, and 112.
Safety will be measured from the time of each study vaccination (Day 0) through 14 days after each study vaccination by the occurrence of solicited injection site and systemic reactogenicity events.
Unsolicited non-serious adverse events (AEs) will be collected from the time of the first study vaccination through approximately 1 month after each study vaccination. New-onset chronic medical conditions and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) will be collected from the time of the first study vaccination through approximately 9 months after the third study vaccination (final visit). Clinical laboratory evaluations for safety will be performed on venous blood collected approximately 14 days after each vaccination.
Immunogenicity testing will include IgG antibody responses to each vaccine antigen, by an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and also by ImmunoCAP, on serum obtained prior to each study vaccination and at time points after each vaccination; antibody affinity by Surface Plasmon Resonance; functional activity of vaccine-induced antibodies via in vitro enzyme neutralization assays; and, antigen-specific memory B cell responses.
Recruitment and enrollment into the study will occur on an ongoing basis, with each group being recruited and vaccinated in sequence.
60 subjects will be enrolled into 6 groups of 10.
39 studies on the registry are indexed under Hookworm Infections; 5 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 60 is below the median of 182 across 36 interventional studies indexed under Hookworm Infections.
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Contraception
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Postmenopausal
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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.
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Hemoglobin (Hb)
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Platelets
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Hepatitis B tests
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Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
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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.
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Corticosteroids (steroids)
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* 5 subjects will receive 10µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel with Sterile Saline Placebo administered to the alternate arm. * 5 subjects will receive 10µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel with 100µg Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF administered to the alternate arm.
Biological: Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF · Biological: Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel · Biological: Sterile Saline Placebo
* 5 subjects will receive 10µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF, with Sterile Saline Placebo administered to the alternate arm. * 5 subjects will receive 10µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF, with 100µg Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF administered to the alternate arm.
Biological: Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF · Biological: Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF · Biological: Sterile Saline Placebo
* 5 subjects will receive 30µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel, with Sterile Saline Placebo administered to the alternate arm. * 5 subjects will receive 30µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel, with 100µg Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF administered to the alternate arm.
Biological: Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF · Biological: Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel · Biological: Sterile Saline Placebo
* 5 subjects will receive 30µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF, with Sterile Saline Placebo administered to the alternate arm. * 5 subjects will receive 30µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF, with 100µg Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF administered to the alternate arm.
Biological: Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF · Biological: Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF · Biological: Sterile Saline Placebo
* 5 subjects will receive 100µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel, with Sterile Saline Placebo administered to the alternate arm. * 5 subjects will receive 100µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel, with 100µg Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF administered to the alternate arm.
Biological: Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF · Biological: Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel · Biological: Sterile Saline Placebo
* 5 subjects will receive 100µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF, with Sterile Saline Placebo administered to the alternate arm. * 5 subjects will receive 100µg Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF, with 100µg Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF administered to the alternate arm.
Biological: Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF · Biological: Na-APR-1 (M74)/Alhydrogel plus GLA-AF · Biological: Sterile Saline Placebo
Frequency of solicited injection site and systemic reactogenicity, graded by severity, on the day of each study vaccination through 14 days after each study vaccination.
Time frame: 14 days post-vaccination
Frequency of study vaccine-related serious adverse events from the time of the first study vaccination through approximately 9 months after the last study vaccination.
Time frame: Day 380
Frequency of clinical safety laboratory adverse events.
Time frame: Day 380
Frequency of unsolicited adverse events, graded by severity, from the time of each study vaccination through approximately 1 month after each study vaccination.
Time frame: 30 days post-vaccination
Frequency of new-onset chronic medical conditions through approximately 9 months after the third study vaccination.
Time frame: Day 380
Frequency of Adverse Events of Special Interest through approximately 9 months after the third study vaccination.
Time frame: Day 380
The IgG level by an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) on approximately Day 126.
Time frame: Day 126
The IgG antibody response, by an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) at approximately 7, 14, and 28 days after each vaccination, and approximately 3, 6, and 9 months after the third dose.
Time frame: 7, 14, and 28 days after each vaccination, and approximately 3, 6, and 9 months after the third dose
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Ran from Jan 2016 to primary completion in Jun 2017, 17 months.
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