Conditions: Healthy Volunteers
Keywords: Prophylactic vaccination
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 67
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to compare the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of Takeda's Tetravalent Dengue Vaccine Candidate (TDV) \[previously DENVax\] when administered intradermally in varied dosing schedules and via different methods of administration (conventional needle/syringe versus needle-free PharmaJet® injector).

Detailed description:
This is an exploratory trial to assess the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of vaccination with a tetravalent dengue vaccine (TDV) in healthy adults delivered intradermally using the conventional needle/syringe or a needle-free PharmaJet® injector.

Two (2) intradermal injections of either vaccine or placebo will be administered to qualified participants (one in each arm) on Day 0 of the study. A subsequent injection will also be given on Day 90 with either vaccine or placebo (in one arm only).

Participants will be evaluated for safety and dengue neutralizing antibody to all four serotypes. All participants will also be evaluated for injection site reactions and have blood drawn for viremia, neutralizing antibodies, cell mediated immunity and innate immunity.

Participants will be required to participate for approximately 10 months from recruitment and collection of data for primary outcomes (through Day 120) including collection of additional samples for measurement of longer term antibody titers (through Day 270).

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. HHSN272201000034C.

Arms:
arm 1: Takeda's Tetravalent Dengue Vaccine Candidate (TDV) \[previously DENVax\] one dose injection in arm 1 and placebo: phosphate buffered saline (PBS) one dose injection in arm 2, using needle-free PharmaJet® Injector, intradermal, on Day 0 and TDV, injection using needle-free PharmaJet® Injector, intradermal, one dose on Day 90. arm 2: TDV injection, one dose in each arm, using needle-free PharmaJet® Injector, intradermal, on Day 0 and placebo: PBS, injection using needle-free PharmaJet® Injector, intradermal, one dose on Day 90. arm 3: TDV one dose injection in arm 1 and placebo: PBS one dose injection in arm 2, using needle and syringe, intradermal, on Day 0 and TDV injection using needle and syringe, intradermal, one dose on Day 90. arm 4: TDV injection, one dose in each arm, using needle-free PharmaJet® Injector, intradermal, on Day 0 and TDV, injection using needle-free PharmaJet® Injector, intradermal, one dose on Day 90.

Interventions: intervention 1: TDV intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: TDV suspension for intradermal administration intervention 2: Phosphate buffered saline (PBS)

Protocol document: