Active clinical trials for "Smallpox"

The purpose of this study is to evaluate an investigational smallpox vaccine, called IMVAMUNE®, with respect to safety and immune (body's defense system) response. Participants will include healthy adults, age 18 or older born after 1971, who have not had smallpox vaccine before. Volunteers were originally assigned to 1 of 5 groups. In July 2007, a hold was placed on the Dryvax® groups and the study was modified. Volunteers, numbering 197, will be assigned by chance to one of 3 groups to be vaccinated twice with IMVAMUNE® vaccine or placebo (inactive substance) in Groups A and B, or to receive a single vaccination with IMVAMUNE® or placebo in Group F. Volunteers will complete a memory aid (diary) for 15 days following vaccination. Blood samples will be collected. Volunteers may participate for up to 425 days.

The purpose of this study is to gather information on the safety and the effectiveness of an investigational vaccine for the prevention of smallpox disease. Smallpox was one of the major causes of death and sickness through the first half of the 20th century, but a global program of smallpox eradication resulted in the elimination of the natural disease. The last cases of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949 in Texas. Today, only laboratory workers who work with smallpox-related viruses, military personnel, and health care workers are vaccinated. Historically, individuals in the US were vaccinated with a product such as Dryvax®, which contains the virus vaccinia in the same family as smallpox. This virus could promote immunity to smallpox, but not produce the disease itself. Although effective, these vaccines are not safe to use in people with atopic dermatitis (eczema, allergic immune response to allergens), children less than 1 year of age, and people with a compromised immune system, occurring in certain diseases (HIV positive individuals and AIDS), and following treatment with certain types of drugs. It is important to find a safe vaccine that can be used to protect people who cannot receive routine vaccinia-based smallpox vaccine. The vaccine in this study is known as Modified Vaccinia Ankara or MVA vaccine. It is the objective of this study to find out if MVA vaccine is safe and effective in providing immunity to smallpox. The effectiveness of this vaccine will be measured in two ways. The first way is to find out if there are specific antibodies in your blood following MVA vaccination. Antibodies are chemicals your body produces to fight smallpox virus. The second way is to see whether or not there is a typical skin reaction following vaccination with a traditional smallpox vaccine, given about three months after vaccination with the MVA vaccine. The typical reaction in an unvaccinated person to smallpox vaccine is formation of a blister or "pox" which occurs at the site of vaccination. In a person with immunity to smallpox the skin reaction is much less, and typically consists of a little swelling at the site of vaccination.

The currently available stock of smallpox vaccine would be insufficient in the face of an incident of smallpox attack. Thus, new manufacturing methods for smallpox vaccine is urgently needed because previous manufacturing methods using calf lymph are no longer acceptable in the view of current standards. Recently, CJ corporation in Republic of Korea has developed cell-culture derived smallpox vaccine (CJ-50300) which was manufactured by infecting MRC-5 cells. The aim of this phase 1 clinical trial were to assess safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of CJ-50300.

The currently available stock of smallpox vaccine would be insufficient in the face of an incident of smallpox attack. Thus, new manufacturing methods for smallpox vaccine are urgently needed because previous manufacturing methods using calf lymph are no longer acceptable in the view of current standards. Recently, CJ corporation in Republic of Korea has developed cell-culture derived smallpox vaccine (CJ-50300) which was manufactured by infecting MRC-5 cells. The aim of this clinical trial were to assess safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of CJ-50300 in previously vaccinated healthy volunteers

The currently available stock of smallpox vaccine would be insufficient in the face of an incident of smallpox attack. Thus, new manufacturing methods for smallpox vaccine are urgently needed because previous manufacturing methods using calf lymph are no longer acceptable in the view of current standards. Recently, CJ corporation in Republic of Korea has developed cell-culture derived smallpox vaccine (CJ-50300) which was manufactured by infecting MRC-5 cells. The aim of this clinical trial were to assess safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of CJ-50300.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III trial to evaluate immunogenicity and safety of three consecutive production lots of IMVAMUNE® (MVA-BN®) smallpox vaccine in healthy, vaccinia-naïve subjects.

The purpose of this research is to compare the ability of a new investigational smallpox vaccine called IMVAMUNE® to produce a strong immune response against smallpox disease if given as one single, higher dose compared with two lower doses given one month apart. Another purpose of the study is to see how quickly someone might be protected against smallpox. Volunteers will be vaccinia-naïve adults age 18 and older (born after 1971) divided into 2 groups. Volunteers in Group A will receive a high dose of vaccine given in 2 shots on day 0 followed by a placebo (inactive substance) shot on day 28. Group B will receive the standard dose of vaccine and placebo given in 2 shots on day 0 followed by a standard dose shot on Day 28. Study participation will include 10 planned study visits over approximately 7 months.

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the immune response after a single vaccination of pre-immune subjects compared to two vaccinations in naive subjects. In addition the study further investigates the cardiac safety profile of MVA-BN® in a healthy population compared to placebo.

The purpose of this study is to gather information on the safety and immunogenicity of an investigational smallpox vaccine in populations with atopic disorders.

The purpose of this study is to collect information on the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of an investigational smallpox vaccine at different doses and using different routes of administration in vaccinia-naive and vaccinated healthy volunteers