Safety of An Oral O1 / O139 Cholera Vaccine (Enteric Capsules)

Summary

Cholera is an acute enteric infectious disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholera, leading to watery diarrhea and loss of fluids from the small intestines. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that up to 4.3 million cholera cases annually with more than 100,000 of them result in death in worldwide. Cholera is mainly caused by the O1 or O139 serogroups of V. cholera. Vaccination has been shown to be a cost-effective, more immediate option for cholera control and prevention. Injectable vaccine is not recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) mainly because of its limited efficacy and short duration of protection. However, the inactivated whole-cell, bivalent O1 and O139 cholera vaccine have provided evidence of substantial protective efficacy. With the goal of making an ideal low-cost OCV that could be used in cholera-endemic countries, a phase I trial was conducted to estimate safety of the oral O1 / O139 cholera vaccine (enteric capsules).

Timeline

Start

2015-03-30

Primary completion

2016-11-05

Completion

2017-06-23

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.