Pneumococcal Post-Vaccination Titers

NCT02726347 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 140

Last updated 2017-09-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study is looking at the pneumonia vaccine and the immune system response to this vaccine. The information gathered from this study may be important for your doctor to take care of patients with smoking histories, immune deficiency, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), or elderly patients. It is important that your immune system builds a strong defense to the vaccine so that you are better able to fight a bacterium that can cause pneumonia. Some disease prevent the immune system from building a strong defense and these patients will not benefit from the vaccine.

Conditions

  • Smokers, Elderly, Asthma, COPD, Recurrent Infections

Interventions

BIOLOGICAL

PPV-23

one hundred forty subjects will have pre-vaccination titers checked. All will be given vaccination as standard of care. Approximately 4 weeks later subjects will have post-vaccination titers checked for the same serotypes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Jewish Health

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-30
Primary Completion
2018-04-30
Completion
2018-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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