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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT01644721
Date of registration: 17/07/2012
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Bandim Health Project
Public title: Trial of Additional Measles Vaccine to Reduce Child Mortality
Scientific title: A Two-site Randomised Trial of an Additional Measles Vaccine at 4 Months of Age to Reduce Child Mortality in Rural Areas of Burkina Faso and Guinea-Bissau
Date of first enrolment: July 2012
Target sample size: 3750
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01644721
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention  
Phase:  Phase 4
Countries of recruitment
Guinea-Bissau
Contacts
Name:     Cesario Martins, MD, PhD
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Telephone:
Email: c.martins@bandim.org
Affiliation: 
Name:     Amabelia Rodrigues, DMSc
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Affiliation:  Bandim Health Project
Name:     Cesario Martins, MD,PhD
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Affiliation:  Bandim Health Project
Name:     Peter Aaby, DMSc
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Affiliation:  Bandim Health Project
Name:     Cesario Martins, MD, PhD
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Telephone:
Email: c.martins@bandim.org
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Children who

- received the third dose of pentavalent vaccine at least 28 days before enrolment

- are between 4 and 6 months old

- belong to households of the existing HDSS

Exclusion Criteria:

Children

- with serious malformation

- who are severely sick (needing hospitalisation)

- with high fever (>38.5 C axillary temperature)

- who are severely malnourished (mid-upper-arm-circumference (MUAC) < 110 mm and/or
bilateral peripheral oedema)

- who have received neonatal vitamin A supplementation

- whose parents/guardians state that they intend to permanently move out of the study
area before the child reaches 9 months of age



Age minimum: 4 Months
Age maximum: 6 Months
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Measles Vaccine
Intervention(s)
Biological: Early measles vaccine
Primary Outcome(s)
Mortality [Time Frame: 4 months - 3 years]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Antibody titres
Morbidity [Time Frame: 4 months - 3 years of age]
Mortality [Time Frame: 4 to 9 months of age and from 9 months to 3 years of age]
Growth
Secondary ID(s)
OPTIMUNISE_BHP_early MV
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM, Holland
Centre de Recherche en Sante de Nouna, Burkina Faso
Heidelberg University
Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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