Safety of and Immune Response to a Malaria Vaccine (MSP1 42-C1) With or Without CPG 7909 Adjuvant

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the safety of and immune response to a preventive malaria vaccine, MSP1 42-C1/Alhydrogel, in healthy adults. This study will also compare responses to two different doses of the malaria vaccine given with or without the adjuvant CPG 7909.

Timeline

Start

2006-03

Primary completion

2007-07

Completion

2007-07

Publications

• Background Boutlis CS, Riley EM, Anstey NM, de Souza JB. Glycosylphosphatidylinositols in malaria pathogenesis and immunity: potential for therapeutic inhibition and vaccination. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 2005;297:145-85. doi: 10.1007/3-540-29967-x_5.
• Background Hill AV. Pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccines: towards greater efficacy. Nat Rev Immunol. 2006 Jan;6(1):21-32. doi: 10.1038/nri1746.
• Background Reed ZH, Friede M, Kieny MP. Malaria vaccine development: progress and challenges. Curr Mol Med. 2006 Mar;6(2):231-45. doi: 10.2174/156652406776055195.
• Background Saul A, Lawrence G, Smillie A, Rzepczyk CM, Reed C, Taylor D, Anderson K, Stowers A, Kemp R, Allworth A, Anders RF, Brown GV, Pye D, Schoofs P, Irving DO, Dyer SL, Woodrow GC, Briggs WR, Reber R, Sturchler D. Human phase I vaccine trials of 3 recombinant asexual stage malaria antigens with Montanide ISA720 adjuvant. Vaccine. 1999 Aug 6;17(23-24):3145-59. doi: 10.1016/s0264-410x(99)00175-9.
• Ellis RD, Martin LB, Shaffer D, Long CA, Miura K, Fay MP, Narum DL, Zhu D, Mullen GE, Mahanty S, Miller LH, Durbin AP. Phase 1 trial of the Plasmodium falciparum blood stage vaccine MSP1(42)-C1/Alhydrogel with and without CPG 7909 in malaria naive adults. PLoS One. 2010 Jan 22;5(1):e8787. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008787.

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