Prime boost vaccination with ChAd63 ME-TRAP followed eight weeks later with MVA ME-TRAP shows efficacy against malaria infection when tested in UK volunteers using sporozoite challenge experiments. It is a leading candidate vaccination strategy against malaria. In the field, Phase I studies have been conducted in adults in Kenya and The Gambia and children and infants in The Gambia. The vaccination strategy appears safe and well tolerated in these populations, and also shows impressive immunogenicity, not significantly different to that seen in the UK trials where efficacy was shown. In particular, recent data from The Gambia shows excellent safety and immunogenicity in infants in malaria endemic areas, who would be the ones to benefit most from such a vaccine against malaria. With this clinical development as background, the investigators now propose to evaluate efficacy against natural malaria infection in this important target group for an effective malaria vaccine, that is, 5-17 month infants and children living in malaria endemic areas. The proposed study area, Banfora, Burkina Faso, is highly endemic for Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
730
ChAd63 ME-TRAP: 5 x 10\^10vp MVA ME-TRAP: 1 x 10\^8 pfu heterologous prime-boost immunisation
Two doses eight weeks apart into anterolateral thigh. 2 x 2.5IU Verorab
Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and 1. Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme (CNRFP)/ Unité de Recherche Clinique de Banfora (URC-B)
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Time to first episode of malaria meeting the primary case definition of clinical malaria episode
Time frame: 6 months
Duration of Protective efficacy against clinical malaria
To assess the protective efficacy against clinical malaria of ChAd63 ME-TRAP / MVA ME-TRAP prime-boost immunisation, in 5-17 month old infants and children living in a malaria-endemic area, for 12 and 24\* months after the last vaccination.
Time frame: 12 and 24 months
Efficacy against asymptomatic P. falciparum infection
To assess the protective efficacy against asymptomatic P. falciparum infection of ChAd63 ME-TRAP / MVA ME-TRAP prime-boost immunisation, in 5-17 month old infants and children living in a malaria-endemic area, 6, 12 and 24\* months after the last vaccination
Time frame: 6, 12 and 24 months
Efficacy against secondary case definitions of clinical malaria
To assess the protective efficacy against secondary case definitions of clinical malaria of ChAd63 ME-TRAP / MVA ME-TRAP prime-boost immunisation, in 5-17 month old infants and children living in a malaria-endemic area, for 6, 12 and 24 months after the last vaccination
Time frame: 6, 12 and 24 months
Safety Objective
To assess the safety and reactogenicity of ChAd63 ME-TRAP / MVA ME-TRAP heterologous prime-boost immunisation, in 5-17 month old infants and children living in a malaria-endemic area, for 6, 12 and 24 months after the last vaccination.
Time frame: 6, 12 and 24 months
Immunogenicity Objectives
* To assess the immunogenicity of ChAd63 ME-TRAP / MVA ME- TRAP heterologous prime-boost immunisation, in 5-17 month old infants and children living in a malaria-endemic area. * To explore the immunologic correlates of protective efficacy of ChAd63 ME-TRAP / MVA ME-TRAP prime-boost immunisation, in 5-17 month old infants and children living in a malaria-endemic area.
Time frame: 24 months
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