Summary: This is an open-label, non-randomized study. Volunteers will be vaccinated with the typhoid oral vaccine, Vivotif. Vivotif has been licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for travelers to developing countries. Volunteers will also be asked to provide blood, saliva, and stool specimens over a follow-up time period of up to eight years. The specimens obtained in this clinical research st...

Summary: The purpose of this study is to determine if adding dietary fiber, such as inulin, to a diet that does not have enough fiber would raise the levels of potentially beneficial bacteria, such as Bifidobacterium, in the gut. There is evidence to suggest that these microbes can affect gut health and immune response, including to vaccines. The investigators will examine how inulin in the diet (compared ...

Summary: The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, reactogenicity, and immune response induced by the GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA (GSK) Vaccines Institute for Global Health (GVGH) invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella-typhoid conjugate (iNTS-TCV) candidate vaccine to be administered for the first time in humans. The study intervention will be evaluated in European adults in Stage 1 (a 2-step stagger...

Summary: Fever management is a major problem in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) where access to good quality diagnostic test is often unavailable. Fever due to typhoid is similar to other undifferentiated febrile illnesses and typhoid can be mistaken with other vector borne febrile illnesses such as scrub typhus. Currently available diagnostic tests, blood and bone marrow culture, and RDTs have sev...

Summary: Typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric) fever affects more than 11 million children and adults globally each year including 7 million in South Asia. Up to 1% of patients who get typhoid may die of the disease and, in those that survive, a prolonged period of ill health and catastrophic financial cost to the family may follow. In the last 20 years, treatment of typhoid fever with a 7-day course of a sing...

Summary: In Kisantu Health Zone, approximate population 200,000, fever surveillance will be implemented in 8 health centers and 1 tertiary hospital. Individuals presenting to one of these study facilities with acute fever or history of fever or individuals presenting with suspicion of intestinal perforation irrespective of fever status, will be considered for enrollment. Following consent, blood samples (b...

Summary: This is a double blinded, randomized-controlled, non-inferiority trial of a typhoid conjugate vaccine, Typhocon (Vi- polysaccharide conjugated to diphtheria toxoid, Vi-DT), manufactured by a local company, Incepta Vaccine Limited. The vaccine will be tested among individuals from 6 months to 60 years of age residing in Mirpur area of Dhaka city. The Typbar-TCV (Vi-polysaccharide conjugated to teta...

Summary: Acute undifferentiated febrile infection (AUFI) is a common presenting syndrome in low-resource settings and better diagnostics are urgently needed to improve patient management and guide disease prevention interventions. Assessment of the host gene expression response to infection in endemic populations has demonstrated significant promise as a new approach to identifying patients with enteric fe...

Summary: This is an open-label, non-randomized study. The purpose of this study is to better understand how vaccines against typhoid fever and cholera affect the normal immune system and bacteria in the intestine. Patients having standard-of-care endoscopies (colonoscopy and/or esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)) will be divided into 3 groups: Group 1: Vivotif typhoid vaccination and/or Vaxchora cholera vacc...

Summary: A cluster-randomised controlled Phase IV trial (cRCT) assessing the impact of a Vi-Polysaccharide conjugate vaccine in preventing typhoid infection in Asante Akim, Ghana (TyVEGHA) with a primary endpoint of determining the total protection conferred by single-dose vaccination with Vi-TT against blood culture-confirmed symptomatic S. Typhi infection in the intervention vaccine clusters, compared wi...

Summary: At least 1.8 billion people globally use a source of drinking water that is faecally contaminated and thus likely to lead to diarrheal illness: nearly 1,000 children die each day due to water and sanitation-related diarrhoeal diseases. Diseases related to the consumption of contaminated drinking-water place a major burden on human health. In 2017, 785 million people still lacked access to an impro...

Summary: At least 1.8 billion people globally use a source of drinking water that is faecally contaminated and thus likely to lead to diarrheal illness: nearly 1,000 children die each day due to water and sanitation-related diarrhoeal diseases. Diseases related to the consumption of contaminated drinking-water place a major burden on human health. In 2017, 785 million people still lacked access to an impro...