The objective of this trial is to assess in healthy adults the safety and reactogenicity of a new candidate vaccine, cAd3-EBOZ, made of a chimpanzee Adenovirus vector encoding the glycoprotein of Zaire Ebola virus. The secondary objectives will be to assess the immunogenicity of the candidate vaccine and find the most suitable dose for further deployment in epidemic areas in Africa. The 120 planned study subjects will be composed of possibly exposed volunteers owning to organisations such as "Médecins sans frontières" and susceptible to be deployed in the outbreak zone (named as "possibly exposed volunteers"). The other volunteers will be adults with no planned travels to the epidemic zone (named as "not exposed volunteers"). The first group will be randomly allocated to two different groups (low dose = single injection of 2.5x10e10 viral particles (vp), high dose = single injection of 5x10e10 vp). The second group will be randomly allocated to three different groups (low dose = single injection of 2.5x10e10 viral particles (vp), high dose = single injection of 5x10e10 vp or placebo = single injection of vaccine diluent). The design will be double-blind. Follow-up visits will take place at Day 1, 7, 14, 28, 90 and 180.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
120
Diluent
Clinical Trial Unit Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Solicited local and systemic reactogenicity signs and symptoms
Solicited local signs and symptoms include: pain at injection site; erythema at injection site; swelling at injection site. They will be assessed according to a preestablished scale (grade 1 to 3). Solicited systemic signs and symptoms include: fever; tachycardia; bradycardia; systolic hypertension; distolic hypertension; systolic hypotension. They will be assessed according to a preestablished scale (grade 1 to 3).
Time frame: Daily for 7 days following the vaccination
Unsolicited adverse events of all severities
Unsolicited adverse events will be assessed according to a severity grading scale (grade 1 to 3).
Time frame: Through 28 days after the vaccination
Change from baseline for safety laboratory measures
Safety laboratory measures include: hemoglobin; white blood cells count; neutrophil count; lymphocyte count; platelets; total bilirubin; alanine aminotransferase (ALT); aspartate aminotransferase (AST); alkaline phosphatase; creatinine; urea; sodium; potassium; partial thromboplastin time (aPTT). They will be assessed according to a severity grading scale (grade 1 to 3).
Time frame: Through 6 months after the vaccination
Occurrence of serious adverse events and suspected unexpected serious adverse reactions
SAE are defined as AE that result in any of the following outcomes, whether or not considered related to the study intervention: * Death * Life-threatening event * Persistent or significant disability or incapacity * Hospitalisation * An important medical event (that may not cause death, be life threatening, or require hospitalisation) that may, based upon appropriate medical judgment, jeopardise the volunteer and/or require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes listed above. * Congenital anomaly or birth defect. A SUSAR is a suspected unexpected serious adverse reaction thought to be possibly, probably or definitely related to an IMP. No category of SAE has been defined as 'expected'.
Time frame: Through 6 months after the vaccination
Antibody responses as measured by ELISA (anti-EBOZ immunoglobulins titers) and by antigen-specific neutralization assays
Time frame: Through 6 months after the vaccination
T cell immune responses as measured by ex-vivo ELISPOT
Time frame: Through 6 months after the vaccination
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