This randomised clinical trial aims to determine whether an immunization schedule comprising two doses of Gardasil administered six months apart is non-inferior to a schedule comprising three doses administered at 0, 6 and 60 months for the prevention of HPV-16 and HPV-18 infections that persist for at least six months, up to ten years after the initial vaccination. The study hypothesis is that the two-dose schedule would offer similar protection as that of a three-dose schedule against persistent HPV-16/18 infections.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
3,364
One dose of Gardasil administered in the intervention group
Centre Hospitalier Uiversitaire de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, CHU de Québec
Québec, Canada
Incidence of persistent HPV-16/18 infections
Time frame: 5 years after recruitment visite
Geometric mean titres of antibodies and seropositivity for HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18
Time frame: 5 years after recruitment visit
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