AdCh63 ME-TRAP and MVA ME-TRAP Malaria Vaccines Evaluation in Healthy Children in a Malaria Endemic Area

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy infants aged 10 weeks and 5-12 months at the time of enrollment with consenting parents.

Exclusion criteria

• Clinically significant history of skin disorder (psoriasis, contact dermatitis etc.), allergy, symptomatic immunodeficiency, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, endocrine disorder, liver disease, renal disease, gastrointestinal disease, neurological illness.
• Severe malnutrition.
• History of allergic disease or reactions likely to be exacerbated by any component of the vaccines, e.g. egg products, Kathon, neomycin, betapropiolactone.
• History of splenectomy Haemoglobin less than 8.0 g/dL, where judged to be clinically significant in the opinion of the investigator
• Serum Creatinine concentration greater than 70 mol/L, where judged to be clinically significant in the opinion of the investigator
• Serum ALT concentration greater than 45 U/L, where judged to be clinically significant in the opinion of the investigator
• Blood transfusion within one month of enrollment.
• History of vaccination with previous experimental malaria vaccines. -Administration of any other vaccine or immunoglobulin less than two weeks before vaccination with the IMPs Current participation in another clinical trial, or within 12 weeks of this study.
• Any other finding which in the opinion of the investigators would increase the risk of an adverse outcome from participation in the trial.
• Likelihood of travel away from the study area
• Maternal HIV infection Positive malaria antigen test at screening
• Failure to have received, prior to enrollment, the routine EPI vaccinations due according to the Gambian EPI schedule.