Group Study of the Safety of and Immune Response to a Single Dose of Bird Flu Vaccine (H7N3) in Healthy Adults

Summary

Over the past decade, avian influenza (AI) has become a major health concern. The development of safe and effective vaccines against avian strains that infect people is important. The purpose of this study is to determine the safety of and immune response of an investigational AI vaccine in healthy adults against the H7N3 strain of avian influenza.

Timeline

Start

2010-07

Primary completion

2011-08

Completion

2011-12

Publications

• Background Alexander DJ. Avian influenza viruses and human health. Dev Biol (Basel). 2006;124:77-84.
• Background Joseph T, McAuliffe J, Lu B, Jin H, Kemble G, Subbarao K. Evaluation of replication and pathogenicity of avian influenza a H7 subtype viruses in a mouse model. J Virol. 2007 Oct;81(19):10558-66. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00970-07. Epub 2007 Jul 18.
• Background Joseph T, McAuliffe J, Lu B, Vogel L, Swayne D, Jin H, Kemble G, Subbarao K. A live attenuated cold-adapted influenza A H7N3 virus vaccine provides protection against homologous and heterologous H7 viruses in mice and ferrets. Virology. 2008 Aug 15;378(1):123-32. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.05.021. Epub 2008 Jun 27.
• Background Skowronski DM, Li Y, Tweed SA, Tam TW, Petric M, David ST, Marra F, Bastien N, Lee SW, Krajden M, Brunham RC. Protective measures and human antibody response during an avian influenza H7N3 outbreak in poultry in British Columbia, Canada. CMAJ. 2007 Jan 2;176(1):47-53. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.060204.

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