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ABSTRACT: Objective
Assessing safety and immunogenicity of an inactivated whole virus particle vaccine.Design
Single-centre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase I (stage I: 18-50, stage II: 51-75 years), phase II (18-75 years) clinical trials.Setting
29 December 2020 to 22 April 2021.Participants
Stage I-phase I: 56 participants; stage II-phase I: 32; phase II: 280.Intervention
During stage I, participants randomly (3:3:1) received 3 µg, 5 µg vaccine or placebo in a 14-day interval. Participants in stage II received two shots of 5 µg vaccine or placebo (3:1). In phase II, participants received 5 µg vaccine or placebo (4:1) in a 28-day interval.Primary and secondary outcome measures
Safety assessment and immunogenicity assessment via antibody response and conventional virus neutralisation test (cVNT).Results
All adverse events (AEs) were mild or moderate and transient in both phase I and phase II, and no AEs of special interest were reported. The seroconversion-rate of neutralising, antireceptor binding-domain (RBD) and anti-spike-glycoprotein (anti-S) antibodies 14-days after second dose of 5 µg vaccine in stage I was 70.8% (95% CI 48.9% to 87.4%), 87.5% (95% CI 67.6% to 97.3%), 91.7% (95% CI 73.0% to 99.0%). The antibody titres increased more among 5 µg than 3 µg. The corresponding rates for 3 µg vaccine were 45.8% (95% CI 25.6% to 67.2%), 54.2% (95% CI 32.8% to 74.5%) and 70.8% (95% CI 48.9% to 87.4%), respectively. In stage II, 100% (95% CI 84.6% to 100%), 86.4% (95% CI 65.1% to 97.1%) and 86.4% (95% CI 65.1% to 97.1%) of participants seroconverted for neutralising, anti-RBD and anti-S antibodies. In phase II, the seroconversion rate of neutralising-antibody was 82.8% (95% CI 77.0% to 87.6%), anti-RBD 77.0% (95% CI 70.7% to 82.6%) and anti-S 79.9% (95% CI 73.8% to 85.1%) on day 42. In the cVNT, the sera at 1/64 times dilution would neutralise SARS-CoV-2 among 91.7%, 77.3% and 82.5% of vaccinated participants in phase I-stage I, phase I-stage II and phase II clinical trials, respectively.Conclusions
These results support further evaluation of this inactivated whole virus particle vaccine.Trial registration numbers
IRCT20201202049567N1 and IRCT20201202049567N2 for phase I and IRCT20201202049567N3 for phase II.
SUBMITTER: Mohraz M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8995575 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mohraz Minoo M Salehi Mohammadreza M Tabarsi Payam P Abbasi-Kangevari Mohsen M Ghamari Seyyed-Hadi SH Ghasemi Erfan E Amini Pouya Maryam M Rezaei Negar N Ahmadi Naser N Heidari Kazem K Malekpour Mohammad-Reza MR Nasiri Mojtaba M Amirzargar Ali Akbar AA Saeedi Moghaddam Sahar S Larijani Bagher B Hosseini Hamed H
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<h4>Objective</h4>Assessing safety and immunogenicity of an inactivated whole virus particle vaccine.<h4>Design</h4>Single-centre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase I (stage I: 18-50, stage II: 51-75 years), phase II (18-75 years) clinical trials.<h4>Setting</h4>29 December 2020 to 22 April 2021.<h4>Participants</h4>Stage I-phase I: 56 participants; stage II-phase I: 32; phase II: 280.<h4>Intervention</h4>During stage I, participants randomly (3:3:1) received 3 µg, 5 µg vaccine ...[more]