Assessment of Three Formulations of the Candidate Vaccine AMA 1 in Healthy Dutch Adult Volunteers

Summary

The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety of a candidate malaria vaccine (PfAMA-1) at 3 doses given at monthly intervals of 2 different dosages of AMA-1 (10 μg or 50 μg ) adjuvanted either with alum hydroxide or AS02A or Montanide ISA 720 in healthy adults not previously exposed to the parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

Timeline

Start

2005-11

Primary completion

2007-09

Completion

2008-08

Publications

• Remarque EJ, Roestenberg M, Younis S, Walraven V, van der Werff N, Faber BW, Leroy O, Sauerwein R, Kocken CH, Thomas AW. Humoral immune responses to a single allele PfAMA1 vaccine in healthy malaria-naive adults. PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e38898. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038898. Epub 2012 Jun 29.
• Roestenberg M, Remarque E, de Jonge E, Hermsen R, Blythman H, Leroy O, Imoukhuede E, Jepsen S, Ofori-Anyinam O, Faber B, Kocken CH, Arnold M, Walraven V, Teelen K, Roeffen W, de Mast Q, Ballou WR, Cohen J, Dubois MC, Ascarateil S, van der Ven A, Thomas A, Sauerwein R. Safety and immunogenicity of a recombinant Plasmodium falciparum AMA1 malaria vaccine adjuvanted with Alhydrogel, Montanide ISA 720 or AS02. PLoS One. 2008;3(12):e3960. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003960. Epub 2008 Dec 18.

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