ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) announced today that preliminary results from a recently completed, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase II clinical study demonstrated that its single-dose, drinkable typhoid vaccine candidate achieved the study endpoints for safety and immunogenicity. In this clinical study, which recruited children between 5 and 14 years of age, a total of 101 children received the vaccine candidate and 50 children received placebo. The vaccine candidate and placebo were allocated in a blinded manner. This clinical study, which was conducted in Viet Nam, is the first study of this product candidate in a pediatric population in a region in which typhoid is endemic and was performed in collaboration with Oxford University and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, and financially supported by the Wellcome Trust.
