Active clinical trials for "Influenza, Human"

To further characterize the immune responses induced after an influenza vaccination performed either via the ID or the IM routes in two clearly distinct populations. Objectives: To describe the immune response per age group and vaccine group after vaccination. To describe the safety of the vaccines per age group and per vaccine group after vaccination.

With this study the investigators will try to assess the tolerability and measurability of the efficacy of non pharmaceutical measures to prevent seasonal influenza in individual households. Households with an identified index case of influenza will be randomised into one of three intervention arms: 1. group, where the household will receive general information about transmission of influenza virus and means to prevent it (Controls); 2. group, which will receive surgical masks and be asked to wear them whenever they are in close contact with the index case or other persons of the household that became ill during the observation period; 3. group, which will be given and asked to wear surgical masks as well as to execute intensified hand hygiene. In addition to assessing the secondary attack rate as our primary outcome measure, the investigators will also try to evaluate compliance to those interventions by questionnaires.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the antibody response to each of the three influenza vaccine strains included in the licensed seasonal flu vaccine, as measured by hemagglutination inhibition (HI) at 21 days post immunization in non-elderly and elderly subjects in compliance with the requirements of the current European Union (EU) recommendations for the evaluation of the immunogenicity for a new formulation of a licensed flu vaccine (CPMP/BWP/214/96).

As a result of the recent supply shortages in the U.S., as well as an anticipated increase in demand during the coming years, GSK Biologicals is pursuing licensure of Fluarix in the U.S. under the accelerated approval process; marketing approval most likely will be granted before the start of this clinical trial. GSK proposes to support U.S. licensure of Fluarix with this confirmatory post-marketing study. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of a single dose of Fluarix in preventing influenza in adults during the 2005/2006 Influenza season.

Influnza vaccination is highly recommended over the age of 50,but is only 50% efficatious among the elderly. A Vaccine given as a nasal spray may improve compliance and local immunity.Liposomes are lipid particles that may serve as carriers for the vaccine and together they enhance the local immune response in mice when given as nasal spray.This study aims to examine the safety and nasal and humoral responses to the nasal vaccine compared to the commercial muscular vaccine.

This study is to assess the safety of a bivalent vaccine of two new 6:2 influenza virus reassortants in healthy adults prior to the release of the trivalent vaccine (FluMist) containing them.

The primary objective of this study was to perform a variety of assays on blood, serum, nasal wash and cell samples obtained from healthy adult subjects for the purposes of developing assays for application in the further investigation of immune responses generated by influenza virus vaccine, trivalent, types A & B, live, cold-adapted (liquid formulation CAIV-T; Wyeth, Marietta, PA).

To demonstrate that the efficacy over a defined surveillance period against culture-confirmed influenza-illness caused by community-acquired subtypes antigenically similar to those contained in the vaccine, in adults aged at least 60 years at enrollment, of a single intranasally (IN) -administered dose of a liquid formulation of influenza virus vaccine,(CAIV-T) is non inferior compared with that of a single dose of commercially available influenza vaccine inactivated (TIV) administered intramuscularly (IM) prior to the anticipated commencement of the influenza season.

This study proposes to enroll 50 young infants, ages 10 to 22 weeks. Each of the fifty infants will receive two 0.25mL doses of preservative-free Fluzone®, given a minimum of 28 days apart but no more than 42 days apart. Preservative-free Fluzone® will not be administered at the same time as other routine vaccines. Approximately 2-3mLs of blood sample will be obtained prior to the first vaccination, approximately 4 weeks after the second vaccination and 6 months after the second vaccination for the measurement of immune response. The primary purpose of this study is twofold: 1.) To determine the safety of administering two doses of preservative-free Fluzone® to young infants and 2.) To determine the capability of inducing an immune response of administering two doses of preservative-free Fluzone® to young infants.

This study will be conducted in two stages. In the diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP) booster phase, subjects will receive a booster dose of Tritanrix-HepB/Hib-MenAC or Tritanrix-HepB/Hiberix (active control) at 15 to 18 or 24 months in a single-blind manner so that the subjects' parents will not know which vaccine was administered to their child. In the Mencevax ACWY phase at 24-30 months, a dose of Mencevax ACWY will be given in an open manner to only those subjects who received less than 4 doses of Tritanrix-HepB/Hib-MenAC. No blood samples will be taken in this safety study.