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Study NCT ID:
NCT02088892
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2015-01-22
First Post:
2014-03-10
Is NOT Gene Therapy:
True
Has Adverse Events:
False
Brief Title:
A Clinical Challenge Study of BCG in Healthy Volunteers
Sponsor:
University of Oxford
Organization:
Study Overview
Official Title:
A Clinical Challenge Study to Quantify BCG at the Challenge Site of Healthy Volunteers Receiving Either Intradermal BCG SSI or BCG TICE at Standard or High Dose
Status:
COMPLETED
Status Verified Date:
2015-01
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
None
Brief Summary:
TB031 is a challenge study comparing two different strains of the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine at standard and high dose.
Detailed Description:
Currently, to assess vaccine efficacy against tuberculosis (TB) there is no alternative to large randomized controlled trials. These efficacy trials for novel TB vaccines are difficult, long and very costly. For this reason there is an urgent need for a valid, reliable, and strong correlate of protection which can help distinguish between candidate TB vaccines undergoing phase I trials, and thereby allow the vaccine development field to advance more quickly, and in a more cost-effective manner.
This study aims to address the current lack of immunological correlates in the TB vaccine field. As an alternative to phase II field trials, human challenge models can provide an evaluation of preliminary efficacy of vaccine candidates. Challenge models, with their concept of deliberate infectious challenge of human volunteers, have been well established for pathogens such as malaria, typhoid and dengue, and these models have greatly facilitated vaccine development. At present there is no safe human challenge model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection to enable proof-of-concept efficacy evaluation of candidate vaccines.
Whilst scientists cannot use M. tb as a challenge agent to evaluate efficacy in a clinical trial for safety and ethical reasons, they can use another mycobacterium, attenuated Mycobacterium bovis, as a surrogate for M. tb infection. Attenuated Mycobacterium bovis is the mycobacterial strain in BCG and is safe to use in humans. An effective vaccine against M. tb should also be effective against BCG. After injection into humans, BCG replicates, and an effective TB vaccine should reduce this BCG replication. The BCG challenge model is based on this premise. In the human BCG challenge model, BCG is administered intradermally and the degree of BCG growth suppression is quantified by analysing the tissue obtained in a punch biopsy of volunteers' skin over the BCG 'challenge' site.
This study aims to use two different strains of BCG, each at standard and high dose, to optimise this BCG challenge model.
This study aims to address the current lack of immunological correlates in the TB vaccine field. As an alternative to phase II field trials, human challenge models can provide an evaluation of preliminary efficacy of vaccine candidates. Challenge models, with their concept of deliberate infectious challenge of human volunteers, have been well established for pathogens such as malaria, typhoid and dengue, and these models have greatly facilitated vaccine development. At present there is no safe human challenge model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection to enable proof-of-concept efficacy evaluation of candidate vaccines.
Whilst scientists cannot use M. tb as a challenge agent to evaluate efficacy in a clinical trial for safety and ethical reasons, they can use another mycobacterium, attenuated Mycobacterium bovis, as a surrogate for M. tb infection. Attenuated Mycobacterium bovis is the mycobacterial strain in BCG and is safe to use in humans. An effective vaccine against M. tb should also be effective against BCG. After injection into humans, BCG replicates, and an effective TB vaccine should reduce this BCG replication. The BCG challenge model is based on this premise. In the human BCG challenge model, BCG is administered intradermally and the degree of BCG growth suppression is quantified by analysing the tissue obtained in a punch biopsy of volunteers' skin over the BCG 'challenge' site.
This study aims to use two different strains of BCG, each at standard and high dose, to optimise this BCG challenge model.
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
False
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
None
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?: