This study will evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of a heat-treated VZV vaccine in autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected participants with a baseline cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) cell count ≤200 cells/mm\^3, participants with solid tumor malignancy (STM; breast, colorectal, lung, or ovarian malignancies) receiving chemotherapy, and participants with hematologic malignancy (HM; leukemia or leukemia-like disease, lymphoma or lymphoma-like disease, or multiple myeloma). The primary hypothesis is that the heat-treated VZV vaccine will elicit significant VZV-specific immune responses measured by either glycoprotein-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (gpELISA) or VZV gamma interferon enzyme-linked immunospot (IFN-ELISPOT) at 28 days post dose vaccination 4 in, HIV-infected participants, participants with STM, and participants with HM. The primary immunogenicity objective and endpoints were considered by the protocol as exploratory for the autologous and allogeneic HCT groups.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
341
Geometric Mean Fold Rise (GMFR) in Varicella-Zoster (VZV) Antibody Responses Measured by Glycoprotein Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay (gpELISA)
Blood sample taken at predose (Day 1) and 28 days post vaccination 4 to determine the geometric mean titre (GMT) of VZV antibodies via gpELISA. The GMFR was calculated as GMT Post-dose/GMT Pre-vaccination
Time frame: Baseline (Day 1 predose vaccination 1) and 28 days postdose 4 (~Day 118)
Geometric Mean Fold Rise (GMFR) in Varicella-Zoster (VZV) Antibody Responses Measured by by VZV Interferon-gamma (IFN-g) Enzyme-linked Immunospot (ELISPOT) Assay
Blood sample taken at predose (Day 1) and 28 days post vaccination 4 to determine the geometric mean titre (GMT) of VZV antibodies via ELISPOT. The GMFR was calculated as GMT Post-dose/GMT Pre-vaccination
Time frame: Baseline (Day 1 predose vaccination 1) and 28 days postdose 4 (~Day 118)
Percentage of Participants Who Experience at Least 1 Serious Adverse Event (SAE)
An SAE was defined as an adverse event that resulted in death, was life threatening, resulted in persistent or significant disability or incapacity, resulted in or prolonged a hospitalization, is a congenital anomaly or birth defect, is a cancer, was an overdose, or was an important medical event based on appropriate medical judgment. The percentage of participants that experienced at least 1 SAE was summarized.
Time frame: up to 28 days post vaccination 4 (up to ~Day 118)
Percentage of Participants With an Injection-site Adverse Event Prompted on the Vaccination Report Card (VRC)
An adverse event (AE) was defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a participant which did not necessarily have a causal relationship with study drug. An AE could therefore have been any unfavourable and unintended sign, symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of study drug or a protocol-specified procedure, whether or not considered related to the study drug or protocol-specified procedure. Any worsening of a preexisting condition that was temporally associated with the study drug or protocol-specified procedure was also an AE. The percentage of participants with an injection-site AE prompted on the VRC was summarized.
Time frame: Up to Day 5 post any vaccination
Percentage of Participants With a Systemic Adverse Event Prompted on the VRC
An adverse event (AE) was defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a participant which did not necessarily have a causal relationship with study drug. An AE could therefore have been any unfavourable and unintended sign, symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of study drug or a protocol-specified procedure, whether or not considered related to the study drug or protocol-specified procedure. Any worsening of a preexisting condition that was temporally associated with the study drug or protocol-specified procedure was also an AE. The percentage of participants with a VRC-prompted systemic (non-injection site) AE was summarized.
Time frame: Up to 28 days post vaccination 4 (up to ~118 days)
Percentage of Participants With Elevated Oral Temperature (≥101.0°F (≥38.3ºC) Prompted on the VRC
Participants were instructed on the VRC to take and record their oral (or oral equivalent) temperature daily from the day of vaccination from the date of each vaccine dose through the day prior to the next dose, or for 28 days. Elevated temperature was defined as ≥101.0°F (≥38.3ºC). The percentage of participants that record an elevated temperature was summarized.
Time frame: Up to 28 days post any vaccination (up to ~118 days)
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