Safety Study of Candidate Malaria Vaccine FMP1/AS02A in Healthy Adults in Bandiagara, Mali

FMP1 antigen contained 62.5 ug of lyophilized protein with 3.1 percent lactose as cryoprotectant. It's reconstituted in approx. 600 uL AS02A adjuvant manufactured by GSK. AS02A contains 50 ug MPL and 50ug QS21, 250uL of SB62 (oil/water emulsion) in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) per volume of 0.5 mL. All AS02A vials contained 0.65 to 0.75 mL of liquid.

Sterile, stable, freeze-dried suspension of rabies virus prepared from the strain PM-1503-3M, obtained from the Wistar Inst. in Philadelphia. Each 1 mL dose of vaccine contained 100 mg of human albumin, \<150g of neomycin sulfate, and \>2.5 IU of rabies antigen.