Study of ChimeriVax™ Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine in Adult Subjects
DengueDengue Fever2 moreTo evaluate effect of previous flavivirus exposure on the safety and immunogenicity of the ChimeriVax™ dengue tetravalent vaccine Primary Objectives: To describe the safety of one injection of ChimeriVax™ dengue tetravalent vaccine. To describe the immune response against dengue before and after one injection of ChimeriVax™ dengue tetravalent vaccine
Study of ChimeriVax™ Tetravalent Dengue Vaccine in Healthy Subjects
Dengue VirusDengue Fever2 moreThis trial evaluated the use of a tetravalent vaccine against dengue. Primary objectives: To describe the humoral immune response to dengue before and after each vaccination with tetravalent dengue vaccine in adults, adolescents, and children. To evaluate the safety of each vaccination with tetravalent dengue vaccine in the 4 age cohorts. To evaluate the persistence of antibodies against dengue during 5 years after the first vaccination with tetravalent dengue vaccine in the 4 age cohorts.
Safety and Immunogenicity Study of Rift Valley Fever Vaccine, Inactivated
Rift Valley FeverThis study is designed to determine the safety and immunogenicity of an inactivated Rift Valley Fever (RVF) Vaccine in adults
Training in Fever Case Management With Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) for Malaria in Uganda
MalariaFeverMalaria remains one of the most devastating infectious diseases in the world. Despite the potential for serious adverse outcomes with each episode of malaria, most cases in endemic areas are diagnosed on clinical grounds alone. Even the simple technique of light microscopy, the gold standard for malaria diagnosis, is inaccessible to most individuals in resource-poor malarious areas. New diagnostic methods that are practical for limited health-care settings are urgently needed. Immunochromatographic rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria are easy to use, require little infrastructure or expertise, show good accuracy, and are increasingly advocated for routine use in malaria-endemic areas. A major challenge now is to implement RDTs effectively in typical African clinical settings. We plan to evaluate the clinical effectiveness and safety of a training curriculum incorporating RDT use in peripheral government health centers in Uganda. Results from this study will provide evidence for scale-up of RDT implementation in Uganda, as planned by the Uganda Ministry of Health from mid-2008, as well as in other sub-Saharan African countries. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical effectiveness and safety of a basic training program incorporating RDTs, as compared with standard-of-care presumptive treatment, for the management of patients who present with suspected malaria at peripheral health centers in Uganda. Our hypothesis is that training in fever case management and RDT use will allow health center staff to reduce unnecessary antimalarial prescriptions without compromising patient outcomes, compared with the current practice of presumptive antimalarial therapy for all febrile patients.
Dose Ranging Study to Determine the Safety, Reactogenicity and Immunogenicity of Typhoid Fever Vaccine...
Typhoid FeverThe purpose of this trial is to examine the safety and immunogenicity of Ty800 oral vaccine in healthy adult subjects.
Direct and Cross Effects of Adaptation to Systemic Hyperthermia: Impact on Quality of Life, Neurohormonal...
HypoxiaAltitude3 moreLife expectancy and quality of human life are important indicator of the sustainable development of the society. At the same time, the physical, functional, emotional and psychological components of the of the quality of life evaluation are subjected to be evaluated objectively and corrected using modern medical and socio-psychological methods. According to a fair number of experts, the arsenal of means for functional rehabilitation and health promotion is limited, and its expansion is only possible on the basis of the principles of adaptation medicine and their translation from experimental research into specific preventive and health-promoting technologies. The study is aimed at the development in molecular-endocrine, neuro-visceral and psychophysiological complex mechanisms of human long-term adaptation to systemic modern heating device-based hyperthermia for the development of medical technology focused on optimization in physical functioning, neuro-autonomic regulation, psycho-emotional status and stress- resistance as objective characteristics of humans' quality of life in working age. The novelty of the project is the disclosure of key mechanisms of adaptational direct and cross-effects to the prolonged systemic individually dosed hyperthermia underlying the optimization of stress-resistance, psycho-physiological status and exercise tolerance of practically healthy persons and leading to an increase in the subjectively perceived quality of life. The discovery of the mechanisms of hyperthermically induced neuroplasticity (in terms of the dynamics of oxidative stress, heat shock proteins and the brain derived neurotrophic factor) will also have a scientific significance, which in the long term prospectives may play a role in the development of technics for the prevention and rehabilitation of age-associated neuro-degenerative processes and diseases.
IC14 in Adult Patients With Dengue Fever
Dengue FeverRandomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, safety, PK/PD and preliminary efficacy study of intravenous IC14 in adult patients in a dengue-endemic region presenting with fever > 38°C for < 48 hours with a positive NS1 strip assay or reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay for dengue virus.
Fever After Simultaneous Versus Sequential Vaccination in Young Children
Fever After VaccinationFever1 moreA prospective, randomized open-label clinical trial that will be conducted during the 2017-2018 influenza season. During the 2017-2018 season, approximately 280 children will be enrolled at Duke University Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Eligible children will be randomized to receive simultaneous or sequentially administered US licensed PCV13, US-licensed DTaP vaccine, and US-licensed inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV). Children in the simultaneous group will receive PCV13, DTaP, and IIV vaccines at Visit 1, and then return for a health education visit without vaccination about 2 weeks later (Visit 2). Children in the sequential group will receive both PCV13 and DTaP without IIV at Visit 1, and then will receive IIV and health education about 2 weeks later (Visit 2). Parents will record the occurrence of fever, solicited adverse events, medical care utilization, and receipt of antipyretics over 8 days following Visit 1 and Visit 2. In addition, febrile seizures and serious adverse events will be recorded for the entire study period (from enrollment through 8 days following the Visit 2) as determined through parental report and chart review. Parental perceptions about their child's vaccine schedule will be assessed on the 8th day following Visit 2.
Vaccines Against Salmonella Typhi
Typhoid FeverEnteric FeverUsing an established model of human typhoid infection, whereby healthy adults are deliberately exposed to typhoid-causing bacteria, the investigators will determine how effective a new typhoid conjugate vaccine (Vi-TCV) is in preventing infection. The new typhoid vaccine will be compared with a control vaccine (meningococcal ACWY). The protective effect of a currently used typhoid polysaccharide vaccine (Vi-PS) will also be studied and compared with the control vaccine using this model of typhoid infection. A second component of this study will involve vaccinating 15-20 participants with Vi-PS. Serum will be obtained prior to vaccination and 4-6 weeks after vaccination. The post-vaccination serum will be pooled and used to create an anti-Vi IgG serum standard.
The Effect of Probiotics on Response to Therapy and on Adverse Effect in Patients Treated With Colchicine...
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF )Colchicine is the drug of choice to treat patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF ), some of the patients treated with colchicine may suffer from gastrointestinal (GIT) adverse effect such as diarrhea and abdominal pain especially in the higher dose. 5-10% of the patients with FMF that have been treated with colchicine may have partial or no response to this therapy. Aim of our study: the aim of our study is :.1to evaluate the efficacy of probiotics in reducing the number of adverse effect in patients with FMF that are being treated with colchicine and suffering from GIT adverse effect. .2 To evaluate the efficacy of probiotics in reducing the number of FMF attacks in children with FMF that has been treated with colchicine with only partial response. Methods: the study will be done among children (5-17 years old) with FMF that are currently followed in the pediatric rheumatology clinic at Mayer children hospital Israel Haifa that are being treated with colchicine and suffering from either GIT adverse effect or partial response to colchicine. The study is design to be double blind placebo control, in the first 3 month patients will be with no therapy and will be required to record all there FMF episodes and their GIT adverse effect, in the second period the patients will be randomly divided into two groups 1.patients that will received placebo (group 1) and the 2. Probiotics group - patients will received probiotics (Bio -25 including 11 types of bacteria L.acidophilus, B.bifidum , L.rhamnosus, L.lactis, L.casei, B.breve, B.thermophilus, B.longum, L.paracseis, L.plantarum, B.infantis), both for three month, during this period patient will be required to record their gastrointestinal symptoms and other symptoms that may be related to FMF.