PfSPZ Challenge in Healthy Malaria-Naïve Adults in the United States
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Official title
A Phase 1 Dose Escalation Trial to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Infectious (Replication-intact), Cryopreserved Plasmodium Falciparum Sporozoites (PfSPZ Challenge) Administered by Direct Venous Inoculation Under Chloroquine Cover (PfSPZ-CVac) on Varying Schedules in Healthy Malaria-Naïve Adults in the United States
Brief summary
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This phase I trial of the replication-intact PfSPZ Challenge vaccine given under CQ cover will enroll 28 healthy volunteers to receive PfSPZ or placebo, as well as suppressive doses of chloroquine (CQ)on varying schedules. 10 weeks post 3rd immunization subjects will be subjected to controlled human malarial infection. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of escalating doses of Sanaria PfSPZ Challenge administered by DVI on varying schedules to healthy malaria-naïve adults taking suppressive doses of CQ (PfSPZ-CVac).
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02773979
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Enrollment
- 28 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Chloroquine Drug
- PfSPZ (NF54) Challenge Biological
- Placebo Other
Drug · Biological · Other
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 45 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Sep 11, 2016
- Primary completion
- Jan 21, 2018
- Completion
- Jan 21, 2018
- Last update posted
- Dec 26, 2019
2016 – 2018
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute - Vaccines and Infectious Diseases | Seattle | Washington | 98101-1466 | — |
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- Last update posted Dec 26, 2019 · Synced Sep 9, 2026
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