TY - JOUR
T1 - First results of phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African children
AU - Agnandji, Selidji Todagbe
AU - Lell, Bertrand
AU - Soulanoudjingar, Solange Solmeheim
AU - Fernandes, José Francisco
AU - Abossolo, Béatrice Peggy
AU - Conzelmann, Cornelia
AU - Methogo, Barbara Gaelle Nfono Ondo
AU - Doucka, Yannick
AU - Flamen, Arnaud
AU - Mordmüller, Benjamin
AU - Issifou, Saadou
AU - Kremsner, Peter Gottfried
AU - Sacarlal, Jahit
AU - Aide, Pedro
AU - Lanaspa, Miguel
AU - Aponte, John J
AU - Nhamuave, Arlindo
AU - Quelhas, Diana
AU - Bassat, Quique
AU - Mandjate, Sofia
AU - Macete, Eusébio
AU - Alonso, Pedro
AU - Abdulla, Salim
AU - Salim, Nahya
AU - Juma, Omar
AU - Shomari, Mwanajaa
AU - Shubis, Kafuruki
AU - Machera, Francisca
AU - Hamad, Ali Said
AU - Minja, Rose
AU - Mtoro, Ali
AU - Sykes, Alma
AU - Ahmed, Saumu
AU - Urassa, Alwisa Martin
AU - Ali, Ali Mohammed
AU - Mwangoka, Grace
AU - Tanner, Marcel
AU - Tinto, Halidou
AU - D'Alessandro, Umberto
AU - Sorgho, Hermann
AU - Valea, Innocent
AU - Tahita, Marc Christian
AU - Kaboré, William
AU - Ouédraogo, Sayouba
AU - Sandrine, Yara
AU - Guiguemdé, Robert Tinga
AU - Ouédraogo, Jean Bosco
AU - Hamel, Mary J
AU - Lusingu, John
AU - Theander, Thor
AU - RTS,S Clinical Trials Partnership
PY - 2011/11/17
Y1 - 2011/11/17
N2 - BACKGROUND: An ongoing phase 3 study of the efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of candidate malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 is being conducted in seven African countries. METHODS: From March 2009 through January 2011, we enrolled 15,460 children in two age categories - 6 to 12 weeks of age and 5 to 17 months of age - for vaccination with either RTS,S/AS01 or a non-malaria comparator vaccine. The primary end point of the analysis was vaccine efficacy against clinical malaria during the 12 months after vaccination in the first 6000 children 5 to 17 months of age at enrollment who received all three doses of vaccine according to protocol. After 250 children had an episode of severe malaria, we evaluated vaccine efficacy against severe malaria in both age categories. RESULTS:In the 14 months after the first dose of vaccine, the incidence of first episodes of clinical malaria in the first 6000 children in the older age category was 0.32 episodes per person-year in the RTS,S/AS01 group and 0.55 episodes per person-year in the control group, for an efficacy of 50.4% (95% confidence interval [CI], 45.8 to 54.6) in the intention-to-treat population and 55.8% (97.5% CI, 50.6 to 60.4) in the per-protocol population. Vaccine efficacy against severe malaria was 45.1% (95% CI, 23.8 to 60.5) in the intention-to-treat population and 47.3% (95% CI, 22.4 to 64.2) in the per-protocol population. Vaccine efficacy against severe malaria in the combined age categories was 34.8% (95% CI, 16.2 to 49.2) in the per-protocol population during an average follow-up of 11 months. Serious adverse events occurred with a similar frequency in the two study groups. Among children in the older age category, the rate of generalized convulsive seizures after RTS,S/AS01 vaccination was 1.04 per 1000 doses (95% CI, 0.62 to 1.64). CONCLUSIONS:The RTS,S/AS01 vaccine provided protection against both clinical and severe malaria in African children. (Funded by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative; RTS,S ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00866619.)
AB - BACKGROUND: An ongoing phase 3 study of the efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of candidate malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 is being conducted in seven African countries. METHODS: From March 2009 through January 2011, we enrolled 15,460 children in two age categories - 6 to 12 weeks of age and 5 to 17 months of age - for vaccination with either RTS,S/AS01 or a non-malaria comparator vaccine. The primary end point of the analysis was vaccine efficacy against clinical malaria during the 12 months after vaccination in the first 6000 children 5 to 17 months of age at enrollment who received all three doses of vaccine according to protocol. After 250 children had an episode of severe malaria, we evaluated vaccine efficacy against severe malaria in both age categories. RESULTS:In the 14 months after the first dose of vaccine, the incidence of first episodes of clinical malaria in the first 6000 children in the older age category was 0.32 episodes per person-year in the RTS,S/AS01 group and 0.55 episodes per person-year in the control group, for an efficacy of 50.4% (95% confidence interval [CI], 45.8 to 54.6) in the intention-to-treat population and 55.8% (97.5% CI, 50.6 to 60.4) in the per-protocol population. Vaccine efficacy against severe malaria was 45.1% (95% CI, 23.8 to 60.5) in the intention-to-treat population and 47.3% (95% CI, 22.4 to 64.2) in the per-protocol population. Vaccine efficacy against severe malaria in the combined age categories was 34.8% (95% CI, 16.2 to 49.2) in the per-protocol population during an average follow-up of 11 months. Serious adverse events occurred with a similar frequency in the two study groups. Among children in the older age category, the rate of generalized convulsive seizures after RTS,S/AS01 vaccination was 1.04 per 1000 doses (95% CI, 0.62 to 1.64). CONCLUSIONS:The RTS,S/AS01 vaccine provided protection against both clinical and severe malaria in African children. (Funded by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative; RTS,S ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00866619.)
KW - Africa
KW - Age Factors
KW - Double-Blind Method
KW - Female
KW - Follow-Up Studies
KW - Humans
KW - Incidence
KW - Infant
KW - Intention to Treat Analysis
KW - Malaria Vaccines
KW - Malaria, Falciparum
KW - Male
KW - Meningitis
KW - Parasite Load
KW - Plasmodium falciparum
KW - Seizures
KW - Treatment Outcome
U2 - 10.1056/NEJMoa1102287
DO - 10.1056/NEJMoa1102287
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 22007715
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 365
SP - 1863
EP - 1875
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 20
ER -