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Vaccine Against Group A Strep Infections Approved For Phase I/II Clinical Trial.(Brief Article)

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2001 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --

ID Biomedical Corp. announced on March 21, 2001, that it has been granted permission by the Therapeutic Products Program of Health Canada to conduct a Phase I/II clinical trial of StreptAvax(TM), a vaccine for the prevention of infections caused by group A Streptococcus.

StreptAvax is the only vaccine of its kind being tested in human clinical trials. It is a multivalent recombinant vaccine developed to cover 26 serotypes of group A Streptococcus. According to data obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), these serotypes are believed to be responsible for causing the vast majority of group A Streptococcus-related diseases.

The proposed clinical trial will initially evaluate the safety of StreptAvax in a small group of adults. With positive results, the studies will move to examine the safety and immune response of the vaccine in children. In this portion of the clinical trial, ID Biomedical expects children of two different age groups to receive StreptAvax: adolescents, age 10 to 14 years of age, and the target age group for which StreptAvax is being primarily developed: preschool ...

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