Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Recruiting
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT03600025 |
| Other study ID # |
PR-17082 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Recruiting |
| Phase |
Phase 1
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
July 15, 2018 |
| Est. completion date |
December 30, 2021 |
Study information
| Verified date |
July 2020 |
| Source |
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh |
| Contact |
Md Saruar Bhuiyan, PhD |
| Phone |
88029827001-10 |
| Email |
saruar[@]icddrb.org |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Interventional
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Clinical Trial Summary
Typhoid fever caused by Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi causes over 21 million cases of
febrile illness and 200,000 deaths are attributed to enteric fever each year. Typhoid fever
is an enteric infection that results in febrile illness. Typhoid fever causes significant
morbidity in the developing world especially young children.S. Typhi specific antibody
responses are elicited in typhoid fever and following typhoid vaccination. Cross-reactive
multifunctional CD+4 T cell mediated IL-17 responses have been shown in typhoid fever. As S.
Typhi as an intracellular pathogen, cellular immune responses might be central to protection.
S. Typhi peptide subunit vaccine elicits CD+4 T cell responses that correlate with protection
in mice. The role of mucosal associated invariant T cell (MAIT) and natural killer (NK) cell
responses in typhoid fever or following vaccination remain poorly understood. Transcriptome
profiling of human immune responses to S. Typhi infection is not clearly understood.
Establishing successful infection by S. Typhi evasion of T cell and neutrophil responses need
to be investigated to better understand the correlates of protection.
Description:
Description of the Research Project: It has been previously shown that IFN-gamma and IL-17
are increased in typhoid fever patients. It was shown that S. Typhi infection induces
antibody responses against a number of key typhoid antigens (LPS) HlyE, Flagellar protein
FliC and chaperon protein EcpD). In the enteric diarrheal disease cholera, MAIT cells are
activated and associated LPS specific antibody responses are generated. In a human challenge
model study, it has been shown that CD8+ T cell memory cells are key correlates of protection
against typhoid fever. The live attenuated typhoid vaccine (TY21a) also induces MAIT cells
after immunization. It has been shown that IL-12, IL-15, IL-18 induce memory-like NK cells in
a mouse model and IL-21 induces memory-like NK cells protective against Mycobacterium
tuberculosis infection. The role of activated MAIT cells, and cytokine induced memory-like NK
cells in typhoid fever currently unknown.
One of the multiple killing mechanism employed by neutrophil is the release of neutrophil
extracellular traps (NETs) that contain myeloperoxidase (MPO), elastase, lysozyme and
defensins. Infection induces releases of NETs to trap microbial pathogens. Neutrophils
isolated from typhoid fever patients release NETs in and that neutrophil NET release is
primed by vaccination with a subunit-conjugate vaccine.
Study intervention: Typbar-TCV is a Typhoid Vi capsular polysaccharide tetanus toxoid
conjugate vaccine. Typbar-TCV is the world's 1st clinically proven conjugate typhoid vaccine.
This vaccine is WHO pre-qualified and approved for children and infants less that 2 years of
age. During the Phase III clinical study, a single dose of Typbar-TCV elicited 4-fold
seroconversion rates of 98.05%, 99.17% and 92.13% in subjects between greater than 6 months
to 2 years, >2 to 15 years and >15 to 45 years respectively. Each volunteer in the
vaccination arm of the study will receive 25 ug of Typbar-TCV vaccine administered as 0.5 ml
single intracellular dose.
Storage condition: The vaccine will be stored at +2-8C and cold chain will be maintained at
all times.
Study participants and sample collection: The investigators will collect 8-10 ml of blood
from adults and 3-5 ml of blood from children who will be suspected typhoid fever patients
(age 1-59 years) at enrollment (day1) and if patient is S. Typhi/Paratyphi culture confirmed
then two more blood samples (2-5 days and 27-33 days later) will be collected. The
investigators will collect 8-10 ml of blood from adults and 3-5 ml of blood from children
before vaccination (day 0) and two more blood samples after one dose of vaccination at day 7
(6-8 days later) [13] and at day 30 (27-33 days later). Peripheral blood mononuclear cells
(PBMCs) and neutrophils will be isolated from blood samples and will be used for different
assays (Polymorphprep kit). Plasma samples will be separated to measure antibody response to
infection and vaccination.
Patient management Depending on discretion of clinician, treatment of the patient with
antibiotic and other necessary drug will be provided. After culture confirmation of typhoid
fever antibiotic treatment will be adjusted depending on antibiotic sensitivity pattern. If
patient does not respond to oral antibiotic then we will provide injectable antibiotic. If
the patient remains unresponded to injectable antibiotic and/or other complication arise,
then the patient will be hospitalized. The investigators are conducting another typhoid study
where the patients are enrolled in different health care facilities in Mirpur and also
icddr,b Dhaka hospital. The patient management will be supported by other ongoing typhoid
project.
Laboratory Assay Procedure:
MAIT and NK cell assay: Isolated PBMCs will be stained with fluorochrome labelled antibodies
and flow cytometric phenotyping performed (acquisition of ≥50000 live cells on a FACS-Aria).
MAIT cells will be defined as live (DAPI-) CD3+CD4-CD161hiVα7.2+ cells, expressed as a
percentage of total CD3+ lymphocytes, and CD38 used as a marker of cell activation. The
investigators will also assess the frequency of circulating live CD3+CD8+CD4-CD161loVα7.2+
cells, which have been suggested to be MAIT-derived cells associated with absent or reduced
cytokine secretion in vitro. CD4+ (live CD3+ CD8-CD4+) T cell responses in study subjects
will be evaluated in different T memory (TM) subsets defined by their expression of CD45RA
and CD62L i.e., T central memory (TCM; CD45RA-CD62L+), T effector memory (TEM; CD45RA-CD62L-)
and T effector memory CD45RA+ (TEMRA; CD45RA+CD62L-), T follicular (CD3+CXCR5+) and Naïve T
cells (TN: CD45RA+CD62L+). Activated NK cell as live CD3-, CD45+, CD56+, CD69+, CD40L+, CD16+
cells and memory like NK cell as live CD3-CD56+CD16+NKp46+CD27+.
Cytokine analysis: Isolated lymphocytes will be stimulated with S. Typhi antigens (Whole
cell, MP and LPS) for 48 hours as well as for 5 days and culture supernatant will be
collected and stored until analyzed at -70°C. Cytokines in culture supernatant will be
analyzed by using multiplex bead array (Luminex).
Quantitation of NETs: Neutrophils will be isolated from peripheral blood based on previously
described method. The release of NETs will be measured by neutrophil NET assay kit (NET assay
kit, Creative Biomart, NY, USA). NETosis will be quantified by measuring levels of elastase
that are released from neutrophils and NETs mediated killing will be quantified by measuring
viability of bacteria.
NETs mediated killing assay: To determine the efficiency of NETs in killing S. Typhi, a CFU
assay will be performed. Overnight culture S. Typhi will be co-incubated with freshly
isolated human neutrophils in 96-well culture plate and incubated at 37ºC. After 3 hours of
incubation, wells will be aspirated and washed with PBS. Dilutions of 1:10 and 1:100 will be
made and 100 µl of each dilution will be plated onto Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) agar. Culture
plates will be incubated at 37ºC with 5% CO2. The number of CFU will be counted after 24
hours incubation and after 3 days of culturing until no further increase in colony numbers
are observed.
Neutrophil intracellular metabolite assay: Neutrophils will be isolated from blood and
incubated at 37ºC for 1 hour for recovery. Incubation media will be aspirated and 1 ml of dry
ice (-80ºC) cold 80% methanol will be added. Cells will be vortexed for 1 min, and then
centrifuged at 15 K rpm for 1 min. Supernatant will be collected in tubes and stored at -80ºC
until use. Before analysis samples will be removed from -80ºC and allow to equilibrate to
room temperature. Supernatant (75 µl) will be transferred to a liquid chromatography-tandem
mass spectrometry (LC-MS) vial capped. Ten microliters of sample will be autoloaded into
LC-MS system for metabolite separation and mass spectrometric analysis.
Antibody responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in plasma. Plasma antibody responses to S.
Typhi LPS in patients and vaccinees will be measured using ELISA methods. Briefly, 96-well
microtiter plates will be coated with LPS and incubated with plasma (1:10 dilution) with
serial 3-fold dilutions thereafter. Plates will be washed, and horseradish
peroxidase-conjugated anti-human IgA, IgG and IgM antibodies will be added. Plates will be
developed using 0.1% ortho-phenylene diamine (OPD) and 0.1% hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and OD
will be measured at 492 nm. A 2-fold or higher antibody response will be considered a
significant response.
Transcriptomics analysis: From a subset of adult patients and vaccinees 3 ml blood will be
collected in Tempus RNA tubes (applied biosystem) and RNA will be extracted from blood,
trancriptomic sequencing will be done at Shanghi, China (BGI) which is a service providing
lab and data will be analyzed using next-gen RNA-seq sequencing to see the gene expression
profile. Differential gene expression will be analysed using the DESeq package
(Bioconductor). The obtained sequence reads will be normalized between patients/vaccinees
versus healthy controls. A ratio larger than 2 and lower that 0.5 will be considered
significant.
