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Register: ANZCTR
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2020
Main ID:  ACTRN12610000544077
Date of registration: 06/07/2010
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Menzies School of Health Research
Public title: A randomised controlled trial of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines Synflorix and Prevenar13 in sequence or alone in high-risk Indigenous infants (PREV-IX): immunogenicity, carriage and otitis media outcomes
Scientific title: In high-risk Indigenous infants does an early combination schedule of two pneumococcal conjugate vaccines Synflorix and Prevenar13 provide greater pathogen protection than standard single vaccine schedules.
Date of first enrolment: 28/09/2011
Target sample size: 425
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12610000544077.aspx
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Purpose: Prevention; Allocation: Randomised controlled trial; Masking: Open (masking not used);Assignment: Parallel;Type of endpoint: Bio-equivalence;  
Phase:  Phase 3 / Phase 4
Countries of recruitment
Australia
Contacts
Name: Prof Amanda Leach   
Address:  Menzies School of Health Research PO Box 41096 Casuarina 0811 Northern Territory Australia
Telephone: +61 8 89228196
Email: amanda.leach@menzies.edu.au
Affiliation: 
Name: Prof Amanda Leach   
Address:  Menzies School of Health Research PO Box 41096 Casuarina 0811 Northern Territory Australia
Telephone: +61 8 89228196
Email: amanda.leach@menzies.edu.au
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Indigenous infants less than 6 weeks of age, living in a remote community and eligible for pneumococcal vaccination.
Exclusion criteria: less than 32 weeks gestation

Age minimum: 4 Weeks
Age maximum: 6 Weeks
Gender: Both males and females
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Otitis media in Indigenous infants;Pneumococcal disease;Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae disease;
Otitis media in Indigenous infants
Pneumococcal disease
Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae disease
Ear - Other ear disorders
Public Health - Epidemiology
Infection - Studies of infection and infectious agents
Intervention(s)
1. Vaccination with Synflorix (intramuscular injection 0.5ml) at 1,2,4 months of age and Prevenar13 at 6 months of age. Final follow up at 7 months of age.
Primary Outcome(s)
Proportion of infants with serum pneumococcal Immunoglobulin G (IgG) geometric mean concentration (GMC) above threshold (0.35 microg/ml). Determined by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay.[7 months of age]
Serum pneumococcal IgG geometric mean concentration (GMC). Determined by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay.[7 months of age]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Proportion of children with carriage of serotype 19A pneumococci. Determined by nasal swab and standard microbiological culture for pneumococci. Serotype determined by Quellung reaction.[7 months of age]
Proportion of children with any otitis media determined by otoscopy and tympanometry.[7 months of age]
Proportion of children with carriage of Haemophilus influenzae (H. influenzae). Determined by nasal swab and standard microbiological culture for H. influenzae.[7 months of age]
Secondary ID(s)
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grant 605810.
Source(s) of Monetary Support
National Health and Medical Research Council
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Amanda Leach
Ethics review
Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:
Human Research Ethics Committee of Northern Territory (NT) Department of Health and Families and Menzies School of Health Research
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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