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CompletedNCT04512027Prolectin-MUpdated Oct 19, 2020

Prolectin-M in COVID-19 Patients Having Mild to Moderate Symptoms Not Requiring Oxygen Support.

An interventional study of Prolectin-M; a (1-6)-alpha-D-Mannopyranose class and Standard of Care in COVID-19, sponsored by Composite Interceptive Med Science. Completed at 1 site in India. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 45 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-10-19.

Sponsored by Composite Interceptive Med Science · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
10
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 45 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

A randomised controlled trial of open label Prolectin-M; a (1-6)-alpha-D-Mannopyranose among patients with RT PCR positive COVID-19 patients.

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SarsCoV2 has infected over 20 million people worldwide. The virus has a unique protein structure enabling it to rapidly infect and spread among the population. COVID19 is a global health emergency and has affected lives of all people irrespective of being infected. There are no proven therapies and a vaccine is yet to be approved for wide public usage.

Our study aims to test a hypothesis of physically blocking the spike protein from infecting the human cells, thus promoting its rapid excretion from the infected person.

We will randomise 10 subjects in this proof of concept trial and test the hypothesis by measuring the effect of Prolectin-M; a (1-6)-alpha-D-Mannopyranose in reducing the viral copy numbers over 5 days of treatment. The absolute copy numbers will be measured on digital droplet PCR developed by BioRad. A fall in copy numbers by 2-fold from baseline will be considered a positive treatment effect in this population. All standard care measures currently being practiced for these patients will be continued.

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Conditions studied

  • COVID-19

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Keywords

  • ddPCR,
  • SarsCoV2 Copies
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In context

COVID-19

7,990 studies on the registry are indexed under COVID-19; 466 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 10 is below the median of 102 across 4,364 interventional studies indexed under COVID-19.

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Lead sponsor

Composite Interceptive Med Science is the lead sponsor of 10 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 45 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Symptomatic and laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19.
  • Age ≥18 years and ≤45 years, male and non-pregnant female
  • Identified within 72 hours of testing positive on RT PCR.
  • Able to give to stay in institutional care and undergo 3 times collection of throat and nasal swabs over 7-day period; Day 1, Day 3 and Day 5 since randomization.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Oxygen saturation at admission ≤96%.
  • High temperature ≥100 deg F (≥37.5 deg C) not controlled on oral doses of acetaminophen.
  • Known history of diabetes on oral medications or insulin.
  • IL-6 levels ≥ 3times of laboratory reference range and / or significantly elevated levels of CRP, serum ferritin or d-dimer.
  • Lymphocyte / monocyte ratio ≤3 or neutrophil / lymphocyte ratio ≥5 or count ≤150,000 cells per microliter
  • On any chronic medications for more than 4 weeks before randomization or active or having any co-morbidity that increases risk of rapid disease progression.
  • Previously tested positive and recovered from COVID-19
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(3)

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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.

Cancer (malignancy)

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
10 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Prolectin-M; a (1-6)-alpha-D-Mannopyranose class+Stand of care

    Tablet chewed for 5 days along and given alongside standard of care

    Other: Prolectin-M; a (1-6)-alpha-D-Mannopyranose class · Other: Standard of Care

  • No intervention
    Standard of Care

    All patients will receive currently practiced standard of care medicines

Interventions

  • OtherProlectin-M; a (1-6)-alpha-D-Mannopyranose class

    A treatment to decrease viral load, detected through digital droplet PCR, in mild to moderate cases of RT-PCR positive COVID-19

  • OtherStandard of Care

    Currently approved standard of care for patients without symptoms requiring hospitalisation will be provided to all.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. SarsCoV2 viral copy number

    Change in absolute viral copy number

    Time frame: 7 days from randomisation

Secondary outcomes

  1. b. Disease progression will be measured on a 7-point scale at 28 days. A 2-point change will be considered disease progression.

    7-point severity score (ordinal scale): 1. Not hospitalized, no limitations on activities 2. Not hospitalized, limitation on activities; 3. Hospitalized, not requiring supplemental oxygen; 4. Hospitalized, requiring supplemental oxygen; 5. Hospitalized, on non-invasive ventilation or high flow oxygen devices; 6. Hospitalized, on invasive mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO); 7. Death

    Time frame: 28 days from randomisation

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Study locations

1 site
  • Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre
    Bangalore, Karnataka 560099, India
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References and documents

Publications

  • Suo T, Liu X, Feng J, Guo M, Hu W, Guo D, Ullah H, Yang Y, Zhang Q, Wang X, Sajid M, Huang Z, Deng L, Chen T, Liu F, Xu K, Liu Y, Zhang Q, Liu Y, Xiong Y, Chen G, Lan K, Chen Y. ddPCR: a more accurate tool for SARS-CoV-2 detection in low viral load specimens. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2020 Dec;9(1):1259-1268. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1772678. PubMed 32438868 ↗
  • http://medrxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/2020.02.29.20029439

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 19, 2020, 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
NCT04512027
Lead sponsor
Composite Interceptive Med Science
Collaborators
Bioxytran Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 13, 2020
Start date
Sep 15, 2020
Primary completion
Sep 19, 2020
Completion
Oct 16, 2020
Last update
Oct 19, 2020

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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