Active clinical trials for "Alphavirus Infections"

Western Equine Encephalitis Virus (WEEV), Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus (EEEV), and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus (VEEV) are transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes and can cause encephalitis (swelling of the brain) and other neurological manifestations, including fever, chills, discomfort, feeling sick, muscle pain and then headache, vomiting, restlessness, irritability, seizures, coma, and death. Vaccines teach the body to prevent or fight an infection. When the body learns to fight an infection, this is called an immune response. Researchers developed a vaccine against Western, Eastern and Venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses to help the body make an immune response. There are no live or killed viruses in the vaccine, so you cannot get infected with any of these 3 viruses from getting the vaccine. The experimental trivalent encephalitis vaccine, VRC-WEVVLP073-00-VP, is composed of Western equine encephalitis (WEE), Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), and Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus-like particles (VLP). The purpose of this study is to test three doses (6 mcg, 30 mcg, and 60 mcg) of this experimental vaccine against Western, Eastern and Venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses.

The purpose of the study is to verify the safety and adequacy of the immune response produced by a 2.5 µg, adjuvanted (aluminium hydroxide) dose of Ross River Virus (RRV) vaccine and to demonstrate the consistency of manufacture of 3 separate lots of RRV vaccine.

The purpose of this study is to verify the long-term safety of a 2.5 µg, adjuvanted (aluminium hydroxide) dose of Ross River Virus (RRV) vaccine.

The study project can be divided into two parts: (1) health screening for the community and (2) clinical diagnosis and treatment for patients at National Referral Hospital (NRH) in Solomon islands. The health screening includes a questionnaire, stool parasitic screening and blood laboratory tests. A total of 800 subjects will participate in this study. The collected samples are venous blood (20 ml/per subject) and stool in order to conduct the related tests mentioned above. As for the collection of target patients, KMUH will cooperate with NRH to collect two kinds of blood samples: the blood samples of confirmed malarial cases and those of cases suspicious of Flaviviral, Alpha-viral, Rickettsial, and Leptospiral infections. The expected received cases are 600 each year. The venous blood samples (20 ml/per subject) will be used to conduct related tests mentioned above. At the same time, the subjects will also have to fill out a related questionnaire which includes height, weight, waist line, heath behavior and habit, and past history, etc.

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of non-adjuvanted and adjuvanted monovalent VEE VLP Vaccine in healthy adults (ages 18-50 years) when administered via intramuscular (IM) injection at escalating doses of 2 μg, 10 μg, and 20 μg as a 2-dose primary series (Day 0, Day 28) with a Day 140 booster dose. The secondary objective of the study is to evaluate immunogenicity of the vaccine at the aforementioned time points