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Filter by:The purpose of the study is to evaluate the general safety of ZOSTAVAX™ in subjects 60 years of age or older as required by the FDA.
The purpose of the study was to assess the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of ZOSTAVAX™ in patients receiving chronic/maintenance corticosteroids.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether Zoster Vaccine Live and Pneumococcal Vaccine, polyvalent are as well tolerated and immunogenic when the vaccines are given together (in different body sites), as when they are given alone, in adults 60 years of age and older.
This study will evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of a heat-treated VZV vaccine in autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected participants with a baseline cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) cell count ≤200 cells/mm^3, participants with solid tumor malignancy (STM; breast, colorectal, lung, or ovarian malignancies) receiving chemotherapy, and participants with hematologic malignancy (HM; leukemia or leukemia-like disease, lymphoma or lymphoma-like disease, or multiple myeloma). The primary hypothesis is that the heat-treated VZV vaccine will elicit significant VZV-specific immune responses measured by either glycoprotein-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (gpELISA) or VZV gamma interferon enzyme-linked immunospot (IFN-ELISPOT) at 28 days post dose vaccination 4 in, HIV-infected participants, participants with STM, and participants with HM. The primary immunogenicity objective and endpoints were considered by the protocol as exploratory for the autologous and allogeneic HCT groups.
Total 7 institutions will be recruited i.e. Clinical Infectious Disease Research Unit Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine Mahidol University,Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute ,Pramonkutklao Hospital,Rajavithi Hospital,NationalCancerInstitute,Institute of Dermatology,Raj Pracha Samasai Institute OBJECTIVES - Measure the burden of illness due to herpes zoster (Zoster) and post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) (severity and duration); - Assess the quality of life (QoL) and quality adjusted life years (QALY) lost due to Zoster and PHN; - Describe health care resource utilization associated with Zoster and PHN; - Describe the direct and indirect costs per case of Zoster and PHN
This study will evaluate and compare various methods for collecting lesion samples from subjects with clinically diagnosed herpes zoster for the laboratory confirmation of herpes zoster. The samples will be tested by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect VZV DNA. Multiple samples from each type of herpes zoster lesion will be collected in order to determine whether the analysis of duplicate samples enhances the sensitivity of VZV DNA detection for the diagnosis of herpes zoster. In addition, blood will be collected for the evaluation of VZV immunity at the time of the initial herpes zoster sample collection (after herpes zoster has been clinically diagnosed) and one month later in order to establish the range of cellular and humoral immune responses during natural herpes zoster in adults ≥50 years old.
Varicella is a vaccine-preventable disease, which can be severe in immunosuppressed children. Currently, the (live) vaccine is not recommended in pediatric orthotopic liver transplant recipients. Furthermore, protection due to naturally acquired immunity to VZV or post-immunization isn't well described in this population.The questions asked are: - What is the influence of the immunosuppression required after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) on the maintenance of VZV-specific immunity elicited by wild-type varicella infection before OLT transplantation? - What is the influence of the immunosuppression required after OLT on VZV-specific immunity elicited by varicella immunization before OLT transplantation? - What is the influence of the residual immunosuppression at ≥ 12 months after OLT transplantation on the induction of VZV-specific B and T cell responses elicited by VZV vaccination after OLT transplantation? - What is the influence of the residual immunosuppression at ≥ 12 months after OLT transplantation on the persistence / waning of B and T cell responses elicited by VZV vaccination?
The safety and immunogenicity of the GSK324332A vaccine has been evaluated up to Month 12 post-vaccination in the primary study. In the extension studies presented here, the persistence of the cellular and humoral immune responses will be evaluated 30 and 42 months after the first vaccination in young and elderly adults who received the GSK324332A vaccine. This protocol posting deals only with objectives & outcome measures of the extension phase at Months 30 and 42. No new recruitment will be done in these extension phases of the primary study. No vaccines are administered in this phase of the study.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, effectiveness, and tolerability of 200 mg of RWJ-333369 given twice daily compared with placebo in the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia.
To investigate the efficacy and safety of three different doses of ASP2151, as compared to valacyclovir hydrochloride in subjects with herpes zoster, and to determine the recommended clinical dose.