Study of the Safety of a Particular Herpes Vaccine in Adults With or Without Herpes Infection

Summary

Background: \- Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) is a major cause of genital herpes. It can also cause serious infection in newborns and in people with weakened immune systems. It increases the risk of getting an HIV infection and of spreading HIV to someone else. Therefore, a vaccine that could prevent genital herpes could improve the general health of the world s population. Researchers want to study whether a new vaccine, HSV529, which may be used in the future to prevent herpes infections, is safe. Objectives: \- To test whether a new herpes vaccine is safe. Eligibility: \- Healthy adults 18 40 years old. Design: * Participants will have 3 vaccination visits, 7 follow-up visits, and 3 follow-up phone calls over 1 year. * Each vaccination visit will last about 4 hours. * Participants will be screened with a medical history and physical exam. * Participants will have a blood sample taken. * Participants will be given the vaccine or a placebo, by injection from a needle. They will be monitored for 30 minutes to check for any allergic reaction. * Participants will be given a diary card to record any symptoms they may feel later. * At follow-up visits, participants will give a blood sample and answer health questions. * In the phone calls, participants will answer health questions.

Timeline

Start

2013-09-26

Primary completion

2017-03-06

Completion

2017-03-06

Publications

• Background Da Costa XJ, Jones CA, Knipe DM. Immunization against genital herpes with a vaccine virus that has defects in productive and latent infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Jun 8;96(12):6994-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.96.12.6994.
• Background Hoshino Y, Pesnicak L, Dowdell KC, Burbelo PD, Knipe DM, Straus SE, Cohen JI. Protection from herpes simplex virus (HSV)-2 infection with replication-defective HSV-2 or glycoprotein D2 vaccines in HSV-1-seropositive and HSV-1-seronegative guinea pigs. J Infect Dis. 2009 Oct 1;200(7):1088-95. doi: 10.1086/605645.
• Background Da Costa X, Kramer MF, Zhu J, Brockman MA, Knipe DM. Construction, phenotypic analysis, and immunogenicity of a UL5/UL29 double deletion mutant of herpes simplex virus 2. J Virol. 2000 Sep;74(17):7963-71. doi: 10.1128/jvi.74.17.7963-7971.2000.
• Cheung F, Apps R, Dropulic L, Kotliarov Y, Chen J, Jordan T, Langweiler M, Candia J, Biancotto A, Han KL, Rachmaninoff N, Pietz H, Wang K, Tsang JS, Cohen JI. Sex and prior exposure jointly shape innate immune responses to a live herpesvirus vaccine. Elife. 2023 Jan 17;12:e80652. doi: 10.7554/eLife.80652.
• Dropulic LK, Oestreich MC, Pietz HL, Laing KJ, Hunsberger S, Lumbard K, Garabedian D, Turk SP, Chen A, Hornung RL, Seshadri C, Smith MT, Hosken NA, Phogat S, Chang LJ, Koelle DM, Wang K, Cohen JI. A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 1 Study of a Replication-Defective Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Type 2 Vaccine, HSV529, in Adults With or Without HSV Infection. J Infect Dis. 2019 Aug 9;220(6):990-1000. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiz225.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.