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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

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Registration number
NCT02149550
Ethics application status
Date submitted
26/05/2014
Date registered
29/05/2014
Date last updated
24/11/2014

Titles & IDs
Public title
Controlled Human Malaria Infection After Bites From Mosquitoes Infected With Two Novel P. Falciparum Strains
Scientific title
Controlled Human Malaria Infection After Bites From Mosquitoes Infected With NF135.C10 or NF166.C8 Plasmodium Falciparum Parasites (BMGF2a)
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
BMGF2a
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Malaria 0 0
Condition category
Condition code

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Active comparator: NF135 n=5 - Subjects will be infected with the NF135.C10 strain of Plasmodium falciparum through the bites of 5 infected Anopheline mosquitoes

Experimental: NF135 n=2 - Subjects will be infected with the NF135.C10 strain of Plasmodium falciparum through the bites of 2 infected Anopheline mosquitoes

Experimental: NF135 n=1 - Subjects will be infected with the NF135.C10 strain of Plasmodium falciparum through the bite of 1 infected Anopheline mosquito
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
reduction in central obesity - waist circumference will be measured on fortnight basis
Timepoint [1] 0 0
12 weeks

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
1. Subject is aged = 18 and = 35 years and in good health.
2. Subject has adequate understanding of the procedures of the study and agrees to abide strictly thereby.
3. Subject is able to communicate well with the investigator, is available to attend all study visits, lives in proximity to the trial centre (<10 km) or (if >10km) is willing to stay in a hotel close to the trial centre during part of the study (day five post-infection until three days post-treatment). Furthermore the subject will remain within the Netherlands during the study period and is reachable (24/7) by mobile telephone throughout the entire study period.
4. Subject agrees to inform his/her general practitioner and (if applicable) medical specialist about participation in the study and to sign a request to release by the GP any relevant medical information concerning possible contra-indications for participation in the study.
5. Subject agrees to refrain from blood donation to Sanquin or for other purposes throughout the study period and for a defined period thereafter according to current Sanquin guidelines.
6. For female subjects: subject agrees to use adequate contraception and not to breastfeed for the duration of study.
7. Subject has signed informed consent.
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
35 Years
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
Yes
Key exclusion criteria
1. Any history, or evidence at screening, of clinically significant symptoms, physical signs or abnormal laboratory values suggestive of systemic conditions, such as cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, hepatic, neurological, dermatological, endocrine, malignant, haematological, infectious, immunodeficient, psychiatric and other disorders, which could compromise the health of the volunteer during the study or interfere with the interpretation of the study results. These include, but are not limited to, any of the following:

1.1 Body weight <50 kg or Body Mass Index (BMI) <18.0 or >30.0 kg/m2 at screening 1.2 A heightened risk of cardiovascular disease, defined as: an estimated ten year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease of =5% at screening, as determined by the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE); history, or evidence at screening, of clinically significant arrhythmia's, prolonged QT-interval or other clinically relevant ECG abnormalities; or a positive family history of cardiac events in 1st or 2nd degree relatives <50 years old.

1.3 Functional asplenia, sickle cell trait/disease, thalassaemia trait/disease or G6PD deficiency.

1.4 History of epilepsy in the period of five years prior to study onset, even if no longer on medication.

1.5 Positive HIV, HBV or HCV screening tests. 1.6 Chronic use of i) immunosuppressive drugs, ii) antibiotics, iii) or other immune modifying drugs within three months prior to study onset (inhaled and topical corticosteroids and oral anti-histamines exempted) or expected use of such during the study period.

1.7 History of malignancy of any organ system (other than localized basal cell carcinoma of the skin), treated or untreated, within the past 5 years 1.8 Any history of treatment for severe psychiatric disease by a psychiatrist in the past year.

1.9 History of drug or alcohol abuse interfering with normal social function in the period of one year prior to study onset, or positive urine toxicology test for cocaine or amphetamines at screening or prior to infection.
2. For female subjects: positive urine pregnancy test at screening or prior to infection.
3. Any history of malaria, positive serology for P. falciparum, or previous participation in any malaria (vaccine) study.
4. Known hypersensitivity to or contra-indications (including co-medication) for use of atovaquone-proguanil (Malarone®) or artemether-lumefantrine (Riamet®), or history of severe (allergic) reactions to mosquito bites.
5. Receipt of any vaccinations in the 3 months prior to the start of the study or plans to receive any other vaccinations during the study period or up to 8 weeks thereafter.
6. Participation in any other clinical study in the 30 days prior to the start of the study or during the study period.
7. Being an employee or student of the department of Medical Microbiology of the Radboudumc, the department of Internal Medicine or Laboratory of the Havenziekenhuis or the department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases of the Erasmus MC.
8. Any other condition or situation that would, in the opinion of the investigator, place the subject at an unacceptable risk of injury or render the subject unable to meet the requirements of the protocol.

Study design
Purpose of the study
Other
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?
The people receiving the treatment/s
The people administering the treatment/s

The people analysing the results/data
Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Not applicable
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/08/2014
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/11/2014
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
24
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
Radboud University Medical Center
Address
Country

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
Trial website
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Perry van Genderen, MD, PhD
Address 0 0
Havenziekenhuis
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for scientific queries

No information has been provided regarding IPD availability


What supporting documents are/will be available?

No Supporting Document Provided



Results publications and other study-related documents

No documents have been uploaded by study researchers.

Results not provided in https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02149550