Study to Evaluate Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of Candidate Human Cytomegalovirus Vaccine in Healthy Adults

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the safety and effectiveness of four different doses of cytomegalovirus vaccines in healthy adults.

Timeline

Start

2016-06-23

Primary completion

2016-09-15

Completion

2017-08-24

Publications

• Background Adler SP, Starr SE, Plotkin SA, Hempfling SH, Buis J, Manning ML, Best AM. Immunity induced by primary human cytomegalovirus infection protects against secondary infection among women of childbearing age. J Infect Dis. 1995 Jan;171(1):26-32. doi: 10.1093/infdis/171.1.26.
• Background Adler SP. Human CMV vaccine trials: what if CMV caused a rash? J Clin Virol. 2008 Mar;41(3):231-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2007.11.008. Epub 2007 Dec 21.
• Background Axelsson F, Adler SP, Lamarre A, Ohlin M. Humoral immunity targeting site I of antigenic domain 2 of glycoprotein B upon immunization with different cytomegalovirus candidate vaccines. Vaccine. 2007 Dec 21;26(1):41-6. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.10.048. Epub 2007 Nov 9.
• Background Baylor NW, Egan W, Richman P. Aluminum salts in vaccines--US perspective. Vaccine. 2002 May 31;20 Suppl 3:S18-23. doi: 10.1016/s0264-410x(02)00166-4.
• Background Biffi A, Montini E, Lorioli L, Cesani M, Fumagalli F, Plati T, Baldoli C, Martino S, Calabria A, Canale S, Benedicenti F, Vallanti G, Biasco L, Leo S, Kabbara N, Zanetti G, Rizzo WB, Mehta NA, Cicalese MP, Casiraghi M, Boelens JJ, Del Carro U, Dow DJ, Schmidt M, Assanelli A, Neduva V, Di Serio C, Stupka E, Gardner J, von Kalle C, Bordignon C, Ciceri F, Rovelli A, Roncarolo MG, Aiuti A, Sessa M, Naldini L. Lentiviral hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy benefits metachromatic leukodystrophy. Science. 2013 Aug 23;341(6148):1233158. doi: 10.1126/science.1233158. Epub 2013 Jul 11.
• Background FDA Guidance for industry (Toxicity grading scale for healthy adult and adolescent volunteers enrolled in preventive vaccine clinical studies, September 2007. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/Vaccines/ucm091977.pdf.
• Background Fishman JA, Emery V, Freeman R, Pascual M, Rostaing L, Schlitt HJ, Sgarabotto D, Torre-Cisneros J, Uknis ME. Cytomegalovirus in transplantation - challenging the status quo. Clin Transplant. 2007 Mar-Apr;21(2):149-58. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2006.00618.x.
• Background Fu TM, Wang D, Freed DC, Tang A, Li F, He X, Cole S, Dubey S, Finnefrock AC, ter Meulen J, Shiver JW, Casimiro DR. Restoration of viral epithelial tropism improves immunogenicity in rabbits and rhesus macaques for a whole virion vaccine of human cytomegalovirus. Vaccine. 2012 Dec 14;30(52):7469-74. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.10.053. Epub 2012 Oct 26.
• Background Gordon EM, Levy JP, Reed RA, Petchpud WN, Liu L, Wendler CB, Hall FL. Targeting metastatic cancer from the inside: a new generation of targeted gene delivery vectors enables personalized cancer vaccination in situ. Int J Oncol. 2008 Oct;33(4):665-75.
• Background Griffiths PD, Stanton A, McCarrell E, Smith C, Osman M, Harber M, Davenport A, Jones G, Wheeler DC, O'Beirne J, Thorburn D, Patch D, Atkinson CE, Pichon S, Sweny P, Lanzman M, Woodford E, Rothwell E, Old N, Kinyanjui R, Haque T, Atabani S, Luck S, Prideaux S, Milne RS, Emery VC, Burroughs AK. Cytomegalovirus glycoprotein-B vaccine with MF59 adjuvant in transplant recipients: a phase 2 randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2011 Apr 9;377(9773):1256-63. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60136-0.
• Background Hacein-Bey-Abina S, Pai SY, Gaspar HB, Armant M, Berry CC, Blanche S, Bleesing J, Blondeau J, de Boer H, Buckland KF, Caccavelli L, Cros G, De Oliveira S, Fernandez KS, Guo D, Harris CE, Hopkins G, Lehmann LE, Lim A, London WB, van der Loo JC, Malani N, Male F, Malik P, Marinovic MA, McNicol AM, Moshous D, Neven B, Oleastro M, Picard C, Ritz J, Rivat C, Schambach A, Shaw KL, Sherman EA, Silberstein LE, Six E, Touzot F, Tsytsykova A, Xu-Bayford J, Baum C, Bushman FD, Fischer A, Kohn DB, Filipovich AH, Notarangelo LD, Cavazzana M, Williams DA, Thrasher AJ. A modified gamma-retrovirus vector for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency. N Engl J Med. 2014 Oct 9;371(15):1407-17. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1404588.
• Background Institute of Medicine (US) Committee to Study Priorities for Vaccine Development; Stratton KR, Durch JS, Lawrence RS, editors. Vaccines for the 21st Century: A Tool for Decisionmaking. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2000. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233313/
• Background Loomis RJ, Lilja AE, Monroe J, Balabanis KA, Brito LA, Palladino G, Franti M, Mandl CW, Barnett SW, Mason PW. Vectored co-delivery of human cytomegalovirus gH and gL proteins elicits potent complement-independent neutralizing antibodies. Vaccine. 2013 Jan 30;31(6):919-26. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.12.009. Epub 2012 Dec 14.
• Background Macagno A, Bernasconi NL, Vanzetta F, Dander E, Sarasini A, Revello MG, Gerna G, Sallusto F, Lanzavecchia A. Isolation of human monoclonal antibodies that potently neutralize human cytomegalovirus infection by targeting different epitopes on the gH/gL/UL128-131A complex. J Virol. 2010 Jan;84(2):1005-13. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01809-09. Epub 2009 Nov 4.
• Background 15. Paneque-Quevedo AA. Inorganic compounds as vaccine adjuvants. Biotecnología Aplicada. 2013;30:250-256.
• Background Pass RF, Duliege AM, Boppana S, Sekulovich R, Percell S, Britt W, Burke RL. A subunit cytomegalovirus vaccine based on recombinant envelope glycoprotein B and a new adjuvant. J Infect Dis. 1999 Oct;180(4):970-5. doi: 10.1086/315022.
• Background Pass RF, Zhang C, Evans A, Simpson T, Andrews W, Huang ML, Corey L, Hill J, Davis E, Flanigan C, Cloud G. Vaccine prevention of maternal cytomegalovirus infection. N Engl J Med. 2009 Mar 19;360(12):1191-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0804749.
• Background Plotkin SA. Is there a formula for an effective CMV vaccine? J Clin Virol. 2002 Aug;25 Suppl 2:S13-21. doi: 10.1016/s1386-6532(02)00093-8. No abstract available.
• Background Zydek M, Petitt M, Fang-Hoover J, Adler B, Kauvar LM, Pereira L, Tabata T. HCMV infection of human trophoblast progenitor cells of the placenta is neutralized by a human monoclonal antibody to glycoprotein B and not by antibodies to the pentamer complex. Viruses. 2014 Mar 19;6(3):1346-64. doi: 10.3390/v6031346.
• Langley JM, Gantt S, Halperin SA, Ward B, McNeil S, Ye L, Cai Y, Smith B, Anderson DE, Mitoma FD. An enveloped virus-like particle alum-adjuvanted cytomegalovirus vaccine is safe and immunogenic: A first-in-humans Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) study. Vaccine. 2024 Jan 25;42(3):713-722. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.12.019. Epub 2023 Dec 22.

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