safety and efficacy of cj smallpox vaccine in healthy volunteers

Conditions: Smallpox

Summary: the currently available stock of smallpox vaccine would be insufficient in the face of an incident of smallpox attack. thus, new manufacturing methods for smallpox vaccine are urgently needed because previous manufacturing methods using calf lymph are no longer acceptable in the view of current standards. recently, cj corporation in republic of korea has developed cell-culture derived smallpox vaccine (cj-50300) which was manufactured by infecting mrc-5 cells. the aim of this clinical trial were to assess safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of cj-50300.


Eligibility criteria:
inclusion criteria: 1. healthy korean male and female subjects between 19 and 60 years of age at the time of screening visit 2. willing to participate and have signed the informed consent form 3. in good general health, without clinically skin diseases history, physical examination or laboratory test results 4. hematocrit \> 33% for women; \> 38% for men 5. white cell count 3,300-12,000/mm3 6. total lymphocyte count \> 800 cells/mm3 exclusion criteria: 1. subjects who have been vaccinated with smallpox vaccines 2. diseases or conditions that cause immunodeficiency (for examples; hiv aids, leukemia, lymphoma, generalized malignancy, agammaglobulinemia, history of transplantation, therapy with alkylating agents, antimetabolites, radiation, or oral or parenteral corticosteroids, basal cell carcinoma, liver cirrhosis or advanced liver disease). 3. in close physical contact (household or at work) with an individual who has the diseases or conditions that cause immunodeficiency 4. history or present of eczema or atopic dermatitis 5. allergy or sensitivity to any known components of vaccine or other medicines 6. in close physical contact (household or at work) with an individual who has acute or chronic skin conditions such as dermatitis, exfoliative dermatitis 7. subjects who have taken corticosteroid within 3 months of vaccination or who are taking oral or parenteral corticosteroid. 8. subjects who have been taken immunosuppressive therapy including interferon within 3 months of vaccination or are taking immunosuppressive therapy. 9. subjects who are planning for blood donations 10. autoimmune disease such as lupus erythematosus 11. subjects who work in medical institution 12. household contacts with women who are pregnant or breast-feeding 13. female subjects who are pregnant or breast-feeding and have positive result by serum pregnancy test or urine pregnancy test, or do not using approved contraceptives such as sterilization, contraceptive ring injectable, combined oral contraceptive pills and barrier contraceptive, combined hormone-based therapy, contraceptive cream, contraceptive jelly, diaphragm or condoms 14. subjects household member \< 1 year old or work with children \< 1 year old 15. subjects with a known history of cardiac disease or have three or more of the following risk factors: hyperpiesia, obesity, hyperlipidemia, glucosuria, sclerosis, cerebral arteriosclerosis 16. receipt of immunoglobulin or vaccine within 4 weeks of vaccination 17. subjects who are allergic to latex, inflammatory opthalmic disease, or taking antiviral agents. 18. receipt of investigational research agents within 4 months of vaccination 19. hbsag seropositive 20. hcv antibody seropositive 21. hiv seropositive 22. subjects having fever (oral temperature \> 38℃) or severe nutrition disorder 23. blood donation within 3 months since screening visit 24. subject who are not suitable to participate in study according to investigator's judgement

Keywords: smallpox vaccine efficacy