AdCh63 ME-TRAP and MVA ME-TRAP Malaria Vaccines Evaluation in Healthy Adults and Children in a Malaria Endemic Area

This is an interventional prevention trial for Malaria focused on measuring Vaccine, Immune response Read More

Inclusion Criteria:

• Consenting adult males aged 18-50 years in good health and healthy children aged 2-6 years.with consenting parents.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Clinically significant history of skin disorder (psoriasis, contact dermatitis etc.), allergy, symptomatic immunodeficiency, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, endocrine disorder, liver disease, renal disease, gastrointestinal disease, neurological illness.
• Severe malnutrition.
• Hypersensitivity to HDCRV.
• History of allergic disease or reactions likely to be exacerbated by any component of the vaccines, e.g. egg products, Kathon, neomycin, betapropiolactone.
• History of splenectomy Haemoglobin less than 9.0 g/dL, where judged to be clinically significant in the opinion of the investigator
• Serum Creatinine concentration greater than 70 mol/L, where judged to be clinically significant in the opinion of the investigator
• Serum ALT concentration greater than 45 U/L, where judged to be clinically significant in the opinion of the investigator
• Blood transfusion within one month of enrolment.
• History of vaccination with previous experimental malaria vaccines.
• Administration of any other vaccine or immunoglobulin within two weeks before vaccination.
• Current participation in another clinical trial, or within 12 weeks of this study.
• Any other finding which in the opinion of the investigators would increase the risk of an adverse outcome from participation in the trial.
• Likelihood of travel away from the study area.
• HIV positive.
• Positive malaria antigen test