A Phase I Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of Adjuvant AKSB (Agri-King Synbiotic) Synbiotic in Patients 65 Years of Age and Older Receiving the Influenza Vaccine
Overview
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Influenza
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
- Enrollment
- 22
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- number of patients with adverse events
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 13 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Probiotics are viable commensal microorganisms that promote the establishment of beneficial microflora. Animal and human studies demonstrate that probiotics can enhance body's immune response to stimuli. Mayo Clinic in conjunction with Agri-King Corporation has developed a novel synbiotic called AKSB (Agri-King Synbiotic) that contains a probiotic bacterium (Enterococcus faecium, microencapsulated SF68 or Ventrux ME 30), a probiotic yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lynside® Pro-Lay 1), and a prebiotic (fructo-oligosaccharide [FOS], NutraFlora®). This phase I placebo-controlled trial of AKSB in normal human volunteers, over 65 years of age, is designed to study the safety of this probiotic when patients are also receiving an influenza vaccine. If this study shows that AKSB is safe then our aim is to do a larger study to see if we can improve influenza vaccine immune response while taking the probiotic compared to placebo.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Persons, male and female, 65 years of age and older.
- •Eligible and willing to receive the influenza vaccine and take the study drug.
- •Not currently on immunosuppressive drugs such as chemotherapy, oral or parenteral prednisone or Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-α) inhibitor therapy.
- •Not allergic to chicken/egg protein.
- •Willing to have blood drawn (4 times) during the study.
- •Willing to complete a simple diary documenting toxicity, pill count and any side effects of the medication and any reported illnesses during this period.
- •Willingness to take 4 capsules per day, keep a symptom and capsule diary, and return these materials to the clinic at the conclusion of the study.
- •Willingness to avoid all over the counter nutritional supplements, probiotics, and yogurts containing probiotics during the duration of the study.
- •Patients who have provided their written informed consent prior to participation in the study and have signed and dated an appropriate Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) authorization form.
- •Blood laboratory results within the 7 days of starting study drug
Exclusion Criteria
- •Antibiotic use - current or within 2 weeks prior to start of the study.
- •Chicken/Egg hypersensitivity or hypersensitivity to influenza vaccine components such as bactopeptone, beta-propiolactone, neomycin, gentamicin, monosodium glutamate, formaldehyde or formalin, gelatin, polyethylene glycol p-iso-octylphenyl ether (Triton X-100), polymyxin B, polyoxyethylene 9-10 nonyl phenol (Triton N-101, octoxynol 9), or thimerosal.
- •Talc allergy
- •Influenza vaccine within the prior 12 months.
- •Immunosuppressed status either from illness such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), or with concomitant chemotherapy, or iatrogenic immunosuppression such as prednisone or other drugs such as TNF-α inhibitor therapy.
- •History of known serious illness such as active cancer (except localized skin or non-metastatic prostate cancer), poorly controlled congestive heart failure, poorly controlled diabetes, acute or progressive renal or hepatic failure, chronic obstructive lung disease requiring oxygen.
- •Ongoing anti-influenza therapy with amantadine, rimantadine, oseltamivir or zanamivir
- •Active or recent (within last 6 months) history consistent with acute influenza illness. Febrile illness with headache, sore throat and temperature more than 37.5C on the day of enrollment.
- •Known chronic inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn's disease, active bowel cancer (defined as being on chemotherapy or having an untreated bowel cancer)
- •Hypersensitivity to any components of the AKSB, placebo or the vaccine.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
number of patients with adverse events
Time Frame: 127 days
To evaluate the safety and tolerability of AKSB when administered with the influenza vaccine as compared to the influenza vaccine alone with placebo in patients ≥65 years of age.
Secondary Outcomes
- Compare stool presence of probiotic enterococcal strain(baseline to 21 days)
- Immune response to Influenza A vaccine in the AKSB arm compare to Placebo(days 14, 28 days and 120 days after vaccination)