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The results from a trial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine , found the vaccine was associated with a strong immuneresponse and good safety profile. The response was more powerful than that generated by MenACWY-D – a licensed quadrivalent meningococcal vaccine marketed by GSK. for serogroup W to 20.5
Intended for intranasal administration, NGoXIM was demonstrated to be effective in animal models and elicited a durable and cross-protective immuneresponse in proof-of-concept (PoC) studies. . This trial will evaluate the safety of the vaccine and generate efficacy data.
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Merck has scored US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its next-generation pneumonia vaccine Vaxneuvance that covers 15 different strains of the pneumococcal bacteria that causes the infection. Both next-gen shots offer enhanced protection against bacteria that can cause pneumonia, blood infections and meningitis.
What’s more, VAX-24 achieved a higher immuneresponse to 16 of the 20 serotypes it shares with Prevnar 20. The company says that these four serotypes represent roughly 10–15% of bacteria causing pneumococcal disease in adults. This is in addition to its long-available pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine PPSV23.
These study participants, representing approximately half of the total recruited participants in the trial, are being discontinued following violations of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) at certain clinical trial sites run by a third-party clinical trial site operator.
These numbers do not reflect the efficacies of the vaccines, which have not been compared head-to-head in any trial yet. Capvaxive received accelerated approval, which means Merck will have to verify its clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial. The vaccine has done well in a Phase II trial against the Pfizer vaccine.
While diseases like celiac are associated with inappropriate activation of the immune system triggered by food antigens, this is not the case in IBS. In a normal, healthy intestine, foods do not trigger immuneresponses and so in a patient with IBS, something else must activate the response. Mouse and Human Studies.
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Last year, Pfizer made almost $6 billion from its Prevnar 13 vaccine, which covers 13 common serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae – a bacteria which causes non-invasive illnesses like pneumonia, sinusitis and middle ear infections, as well as invasive diseases like meningitis. That is equivalent to 14% of Pfizer’s total revenues.
In the trial, Seres announced that the product candidate had met its primary endpoint, showing a statistically significant 30.2% As naturally occurring non-engineered strains of human commensal bacteria originally isolated from healthy human donors, they are expected to have very clean safety profiles,” they said.
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