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CompletedNCT02603055Updated Sep 1, 2016

A Clinical Trial to Evaluate a Recombinant Hepatitis E Vaccine in Healthy Adults

A Phase 1 interventional study of 30μg/0.5ml Hepatitis E vaccine and 30μg/0.5ml Recombinant Hepatitis E vaccine in Hepatitis E, sponsored by Jiangsu Province Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Completed at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 16 Years to 65 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-09-01.

Sponsored by Jiangsu Province Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Phase 1, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
60
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
16 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Hepatitis E is characteristic by sporadic and local epidemic around the world, and mainly infects adults aged 15 to 40 years old, resulting in the infection rate ranged from 1% to 15%. The investigational hepatitis E vaccine is a recombinant aluminium-adjuvant hepatitis E vaccine.

This is a single center, randomized, blinding, parallel-controlled phase Ib clinical trial. This study will determine the safety and immunogenicity of the investigational recombinant hepatitis E vaccine in healthy adults between 16 and 65 years.

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Conditions studied

  • Hepatitis E

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Keywords

  • Safety
  • immunogenicity
  • Hepatitis E
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In context

Hepatitis E

37 studies on the registry are indexed under Hepatitis E; 9 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 60 is below the median of 330 across 26 interventional studies indexed under Hepatitis E.

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Lead sponsor

Jiangsu Province Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the lead sponsor of 77 studies on the registry; 5 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
16 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Aged between 16 and 65 years with normal intelligence.
  • Negative in antibody against hepatitis E test.
  • No plan to go out for a long time within 9 months.
  • Able to understand the content of and willing to sign the informed consent
  • General good health as established by medical history and physical examination.
  • Able and willing to complete all the secluded study process during the whole study follow-up period.
  • No history of , and hepatitis E(Patients diagnosed as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and hepatitis E by town or above)
  • Axillary temperature ≤37.0°C on the day of enrollment

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Woman who is pregnant, breast-feeding or planning to be pregnant during the study period
  • Allergic history of any vaccination or drugs, or allergic to any ingredient of the Hepatitis E vaccine
  • History of serious adverse reactions after vaccination, such as allergies, urticaria, breathing difficulties, angioneurotic oedema or abdominal pain
  • disease or immunodeficiency
  • Asthma that was unstable and need emergency treatment, hospitalization, oral or intravenous within two years
  • Type I or II diabetes, not including gestational diabetes
  • History of thyroidectomy, or need treatment for thyroid disease in the past 12 months
  • History of serious angioneurotic edema in the past 3 years, or need treatment for it in the past 2 years
  • Severe hypertension, with the blood pressure still more than 150/100 mmHg after drug maintenance treatment
  • Abnormal coagulation function (such as coagulation factor deficiency, coagulation disorders, abnormalities) or coagulation disorders diagnosed by the doctor.
  • Patients who are active or not have a definite cure of malignant tumors, or who may recur in the study period.
  • Epilepsy, not including alcohol epilepsy in the first 3 years abstinence or simple epilepsy without the need of treatment in the past 3 years
  • Asplenia or functional asplenia, or asplenia and splenectomy under any circumstances
  • Guillain Barre Syndrome
  • Prior administration of immunodepressant, cytotoxic or corticosteroids (not including corticosteroid therapy for allergic rhinitis and acute non concurrent dermatitis )treatment in last 6 months
  • Prior administration of immune globulin in last 3 months
  • Prior administration of other research medicines in last 1 month
  • Prior administration of attenuated vaccine in last 1 month
  • Prior administration of subunit or inactivated vaccine in last 14 days, such as pneumococcal Vaccine
  • Current anti-tuberculosis prophylaxis or therapy
  • Fever (axillary temperature 38.0℃) in 3 days before vaccination or any acute disease, systemic application of antibiotics or antiviral therapy in the past five days
  • Unable to comply with the study requirements due to the psychological situation, a past or present history of mental disease, two-stage affective psychosis which were not well controlled in the past two years; mental disease need medical treatment, and have suicidal tendency over the past five years
  • Any condition that in the opinion of the investigators may interfere with the evaluation of study objectives
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Informed consent

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You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
60 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    30μg/0.5ml Hepatitis E vaccine

    three doses, 30μg/0.5ml per dose

    Biological: 30μg/0.5ml Hepatitis E vaccine

  • Active comparator
    30μg/0.5ml Recombinant Hepatitis E vaccine

    30μg/0.5ml Hepatitis E vaccine developed by Xiamen innovax biotech Co., Ltd. three doses, 30μg/0.5ml per dose

    Biological: 30μg/0.5ml Recombinant Hepatitis E vaccine

Interventions

  • Biological30μg/0.5ml Hepatitis E vaccine

    three doses, 30μg/0.5ml per dose

  • Biological30μg/0.5ml Recombinant Hepatitis E vaccine

    30μg/0.5ml Hepatitis E vaccine developed by Xiamen innovax biotech Co.,Ltd.,three doses, 30μg/0.5ml per dose

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Occurrence of adverse reactions after vaccination

    Occurrence of adverse reactions within 7 days after each vaccination with the Recombinant Hepatitis E vaccine.

    Time frame: within 7 days after each vaccination

  2. The geometric mean concentration of antibody against Hepatitis E responses to the Hepatitis E vaccine

    Antibody against Hepatitis E responses to the Hepatitis E vaccine at 7 months after the first vaccination

    Time frame: 7 months after the first vaccination

Secondary outcomes

  1. Occurrence of adverse events after each vaccination

    Occurrence of adverse events within 28 days after each vaccination with the Hepatitis E vaccine.

    Time frame: within 28 days after each vaccination

  2. Occurrence of serious adverse events after the vaccination.

    Occurrence of serious adverse events within 12 months after the first vaccination with the Hepatitis E vaccine.

    Time frame: within 12 months after the first vaccination

  3. The positive rates of antibody against Hepatitis E responses to the Hepatitis E vaccine.

    The positive rates of antibody against Hepatitis E responses to the Hepatitis E vaccine at 7 months after the first vaccination.

    Time frame: 7 months after the first vaccination

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Study locations

1 site
  • Jiangsu Provincial Center for Diseases Control and Prevention
    Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, China
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 1, 2016, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02603055
Lead sponsor
Jiangsu Province Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Collaborators
Changchun Institute of Biological Products Co., Ltd.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 11, 2015
Start date
Jul 2015
Primary completion
Apr 2016
Completion
Aug 2016
Last update
Sep 1, 2016

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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