Today, the leading contender for the next pandemic of influenza is H5N1, a strain of avian virus. Prevention and control of a pandemic will depend on the rapid production and worldwide distribution of specific pandemic vaccines. Candidate 'pandemic-like' vaccines must be developed and tested in clinical trials to determine the most optimal formulation and the best vaccination schedule.This study is designed to test in healthy adults aged between 18-60 years the reactogenicity and immunogenicity of one and two administrations of a candidate pandemic H5N1 vaccine formulated from Split Virus. The vaccines contain different antigen doses . For each dose, adjuvanted vaccine will be compared to the plain vaccine in order to detect the optimal formulation for immunization against the H5N1 influenza strain.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Enrollment
400
GSK Investigational Site
Ghent, Belgium
To evaluate the humoral immune response induced by the study vaccines in term of anti-haemagglutinin antibody titers.
To evaluate the safety and reactogenicity of the study vaccines in term of solicited local and general adverse events, unsolicited adverse events and serious adverse events"
To evaluate the humoral immune response induced by the study vaccines in term of serum neutralizing antibody titers
To evaluate the cell-mediated immune response induced by the study vaccines in term of frequency of influenza-specific CD4/CD8 T lymphocytes
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