Vitamin A Deficiency Clinical Trial
Official title:
Newborn Vitamin A Supplementation, Gut Microbiota and Vaccine Response During the Second Year of Life in Bangladeshi Infants
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) increases the risk of death from infections in infants and young children. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends high-dose vitamin A supplementation (VAS) from 6-59 months of age to reduce the risk of death in countries where VAD is common. Such countries include Bangladesh, where this study is being conducted. While providing VAS at 6 months is recommended, providing VAS at birth may also decrease the risk of death since newborn infants are also at risk of VAD. VAS presumably reduces infant mortality by improving the immune response to infection and immunization. Vitamin A particularly affects the development and function of T cells, which develop in the thymus and are a key component of the memory response to infection and immunization. Vitamin A is important for development of an important class of T cells, regulatory T-cells, in the intestine. Regulatory T-cells prevent over-reaction of the immune system to substances the immune system might otherwise treat as harmful such as food or the healthy bacteria in the intestine. VAD could disrupt the normal colonization of the infant's intestinal tract and cause a condition called "dysbiosis" where abnormal bacteria flourish and adversely affect the infant's immune system. Dysbiosis may disrupt the immune response to injectable and oral vaccines. VAS at birth may prevent dysbiosis and thus improve immune function, response to vaccines, and child survival. The investigators recently completed an intervention trial in Bangladeshi infants (NCT01583972) examining the effect of VAS at birth on immune function and response to vaccines administered from birth to 14 wk of age. The present study will recruit infants who completed NCT01583972 when they are from 12 to 24 m of age to determine if VAS at birth affects the responses to these same vaccines when they are measured during the second year of life. The investigators will examine the effect of VAS at birth on gut microbiota measured early in infancy and during the second year of life, and explore the association of the gut microbiota with vaccine response. Mothers of study infants will participate in the study because the breast milk oligosaccharide content strongly affects gut microbiota composition and the "secretor status" of the mother, which can be determined from maternal FUT2 genotype, strongly affects breast milk oligosaccharide content.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 258 |
Est. completion date | September 2015 |
Est. primary completion date | September 2015 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | Both |
Age group | 12 Months to 24 Months |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - for infant: completion of NCT01583972 - for mother: mother of study infant Exclusion Criteria: |
Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
Country | Name | City | State |
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Bangladesh | International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh | Dhaka | |
United States | University of California, Davis | Davis | California |
United States | USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center | Davis | California |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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USDA, Western Human Nutrition Research Center | International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Thrasher Research Fund, University of California, Davis |
United States, Bangladesh,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Naïve T-cells in peripheral blood | The concentration of naïve T-cells in peripheral blood will be measured once at 52 - 104 wk of age by flow cytometric analysis. | measured once at 52 - 104 weeks of age | No |
Secondary | Thymic output of naïve T cells | The thymic output of naïve T cells will be measured once at 52 - 104 wk of age by T-cell receptor excision circle (TREC) levels in DNA purified from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). | measured once at 52 - 104 weeks of age | No |
Secondary | Immune response to vaccines | The immune responses to vaccines, measured at 52 - 104 wk of age, include: (A) Serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) and immunoglobulin A (IgA) responses to oral polio virus vaccine (OPV; given at birth, 6 wk, 10 wk, 14 wk); (B) serum IgG response to tetanus toxoid vaccine (TT; given at 6, 10 and 14 wk) and (C) Hepatitis B virus vaccine (HBV; given at 6, 10 and 14 wk); (D) the IgA response to OPV in stool; the (E) proliferative and (F) cytokine response of peripheral blood cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) T-cells to OPV, TT, HBV vaccines and to the tuberculosis vaccine (BCG; given at birth). Antibody responses will be measured by ELISA, T-cell proliferation by flow cytometric analysis after 6 days of culture with corresponding vaccine antigens, and cytokines will be measured in supernatant after 3 and 6 d of culture with the same antigens. | Measured once at 52 - 104 weeks of age | No |
Secondary | Change in the relative abundance of stool bacteria | The relative abundance of stool bacteria will be measured using DNA extracts at four time points (6, 10 and 14 wk, and at one point between 52 and 104 wk) using culture-independent, next generation sequencing (NGS) of bacterial populations, followed by quantitative PCR (QPCR) and Bifidobacterium-specific terminal restriction-fragment-length polymorphism (TRFLP.) | 6, 10, 14 and 52-104 weeks of age | No |
Secondary | Serum Vitamin A status | Vitamin A status will be assessed by serum retinol or retinol binding protein (RBP4) at 52 - 104 wk of age. | measured once at 52-104 weeks of age | No |
Secondary | Secretor status of the study infant's mother. | The "secretor status" of the mother is determined by the FUT2 genotype. FUT2 is related to FUT1, the gene encoding fucosyltransferase 1, which determines the composition of specific glycans on erythrocytes that determine the ABO (or ABH) and Lewis blood group antigens. The activity of fucosyltransferase 2 (encoded by FUT2) causes the synthesis and secretion of these same glycans into breast milk and other secretions (e.g., saliva and other intestinal secretions). | measured once when infant is 52 - 104 weeks of age | No |
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