Study of the Effect of Probiotics on Respiratory Morbidity After Influenza

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether probiotic treatment improves the protection against respiratory infections after influenza vaccination in elderly living in nursing homes.

Clinical Trial Description

Influenza virus is a member of the orthomyxovirus family and causes an acute viral disease of the respiratory tract. The illness is usually self-limiting. Hospitalization and deaths mainly occur in high-risk groups (elderly, chronically ill). Response to vaccination is subject to high levels of variability due to age, stress, nutritional stage, etc.

Lactic acid bacteria are naturally commensal bacteria in the small and large intestines. These bacteria protect the host against potential pathogens by competitive exclusion and also by the production of antibacterial agents known as bacteriocins. It has only been recently shown that another mechanism whereby probiotic bacteria may provide a health benefit is by modulating immune responses.

Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (LcS) is widely consumed in fermented milk products. Several studies, in animals as wells as in humans, report on the immunomodulatory functions of LcS.

The aim of this multicentre, randomized, placebo controlled, double blind study (RCT) is to assess if probiotic treatment with Lactobacillus casei Shirota improves the protection against influenza(-like) infections after vaccination with trivalent influenza vaccine in elderly residing in nursing homes.

Trial endpoints:

1. Clinical outcome: difference in incidence in upper respiratory tract infections (influenza-like illness)

2. Serological outcome: difference in influenza vaccine specific serum IgG between probiotic and control treatment ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Respiratory Tract Infections

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT00849277
Study type	Interventional
Source	Universiteit Antwerpen
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	Phase 4
Start date	October 2006
Completion date	April 2008

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Phase 1: Researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.
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Study of the Effect of Probiotics on Respiratory Morbidity After Influenza Vaccination of Elderly in Nursing Homes

Clinical Trial Summary

Clinical Trial Description

Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms