Safety and Immunogenicity of Locally Manufactured New (HL-OCV) Oral Cholera Vaccine

Summary

Cholera, a rapidly dehydrating watery diarrheal disease transmitted through water or food contaminated with the bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low income countries like Bangladesh. In our country, Cholera disease burden consists of both cholera outbreaks and endemic cholera comprising at least 300,000 severe cases and 1.2 million infections each year. To combat this situation, Vaccination against cholera has been proved effective both in endemic and epidemic settings. But, the WHO recommended Dukoral and Prequalified Shanchol are quite expensive for our country perspective. Therefore, locally manufactured OCV can improve the cost effectiveness and make it affordable for all. The hypothesis of this proposal is that Locally produced orally administered whole cell inactivated HL-OCV test formulations A and B are safe and immunogenic in adults and children in Bangladesh as compared to ShancholTM. The results of the study will allow us to understand the safety and immunogenicity outcome of the HL-OCV compared to Shanchol vaccine. The total sample size will be 840 healthy participants. 840 healthy participants (360 adults, 240 Children and Adolescent and 240 young children) of 18-45 years, 5- less than 18 years and 1 year to less than 5 years will be enrolled in the study. Children whose parents/guardians give voluntary consent will be enrolled in the study. The investigators will provide 2 dose of vaccine for three groups in 14 days interval. Test formulations will be locally manufactured and the comparator group will get Shanchol. The Investigators propose to collect three blood samples (Day 0, 14 and 28).

Timeline

Start

2016-07

Primary completion

2017-11

Completion

2017-11

Publications

• Results Ali M, Lopez AL, You YA, Kim YE, Sah B, Maskery B, Clemens J. The global burden of cholera. Bull World Health Organ. 2012 Mar 1;90(3):209-218A. doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.093427. Epub 2012 Jan 24.
• Results Schwartz BS, Harris JB, Khan AI, Larocque RC, Sack DA, Malek MA, Faruque AS, Qadri F, Calderwood SB, Luby SP, Ryan ET. Diarrheal epidemics in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during three consecutive floods: 1988, 1998, and 2004. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Jun;74(6):1067-73.
• Results Harris JB, LaRocque RC, Chowdhury F, Khan AI, Logvinenko T, Faruque AS, Ryan ET, Qadri F, Calderwood SB. Susceptibility to Vibrio cholerae infection in a cohort of household contacts of patients with cholera in Bangladesh. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 Apr 9;2(4):e221. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000221.
• Chowdhury F, Ali Syed K, Akter A, Rahman Bhuiyan T, Tauheed I, Khaton F, Biswas R, Ferdous J, Al Banna H, Ross AG, Mc Millan N, Sharma T, Kanchan V, Pal Singh A, Gill D, Lebens M, Nordqvist S, Holmgren J, Clemens JD, Qadri F. A phase I/II study to evaluate safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of Hillchol(R), an inactivated single Hikojima strain based oral cholera vaccine, in a sequentially age descending population in Bangladesh. Vaccine. 2021 Jul 22;39(32):4450-4457. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.06.069. Epub 2021 Jul 1.

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