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Active, not recruitingNCT04852068Updated Nov 24, 2023

A Clinical Trial of Freeze-dried Human Rabies Vaccine (Vero Cells)

A Phase 3 interventional study of Freeze-dried human rabies vaccine (Vero cells) Zhifeilongkoma - 5-dose program and Freeze-dried human rabies vaccine (Vero cells) Zhifeilongkoma - 4-dose program in Rabies Vaccine Adverse Reaction and Safety and Efficacy, sponsored by Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biologic Pharmacy Co., Ltd.. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 10 Years to 60 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-11-24.

Sponsored by Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biologic Pharmacy Co., Ltd. (part of Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products Co., Ltd.) · Phase 3, Interventional, and Prevention

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Sep 2024, 2 years 1 month ago, but the record still lists the study as active, not recruiting.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
2,480
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
10 Years to 60 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This clinical trial is carried out in two phases. The first phase adopts an open design, and the second phase adopts a randomized, blinded, and similar vaccine-controlled non-inferiority trial design.

The first stage: According to the order of two age groups of 18-60 years old and 10-17 years old, 40 cases were enrolled in each age group (20 persons for the 5-dose program and 20 for the 4-dose program). Subjects in the 5-dose group received 1 dose of test vaccine on 0, 3, 7, 14, and 28 days each. Subjects in the 4-dose group received 1 dose each on both arms on day 0, and 1 dose on day 7 and day 21 each. All subjects in the first stage were only observed for safety and were followed up to 6 months after the entire course of vaccination.

The second stage: the total number of enrolled 2400 cases, 10-60 years old, the 4-dose program group and the 5-dose program group of the test vaccine, the 4-dose program group and the 5-dose program group of the control vaccine according to the random ratio 1:1:1:1. Among the total number of participants, 1680 cases (420 cases per group) were simultaneously observed for immunogenicity and safety, and the remaining 720 subjects (180 cases per group) only underwent safety observation. 800 subjects (200 cases in each group) received 6-month immune persistence observation after full vaccination, and 400 subjects in the test vaccine group received 12 months immune persistence observation after full vaccination.

In the second stage, 1680 subjects were collected before the immunization, 7 days after the first dose, 14 days after the first dose, and 14 days after the full vaccination to test rabies virus antibodies to evaluate the immunogenicity of the test vaccine. 800 subjects were in the whole process Immune persistent blood sampling was performed 6 months after vaccination, and subjects in the test vaccine group were further subjected to immune persistent blood sampling 12 months after the full course of vaccination to evaluate immune durability. Collect all AEs within 30 minutes after each dose, AEs from 0-7 days, all non-collective AEs from the first dose to 30 days after the full course of vaccination, and all serious AEs from the first dose to 6 months after the full course of vaccination Adverse events.

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Conditions studied

  • Rabies Vaccine Adverse Reaction
  • Safety and Efficacy

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In context

Rabies

114 studies on the registry are indexed under Rabies; 15 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 2,480 is above the median of 201 across 104 interventional studies indexed under Rabies.

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Lead sponsor

Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biologic Pharmacy Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 49 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
10 Years to 60 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Age 10-60 on the day of enrollment, able to provide legal identification
  • Subjects and/or their guardians voluntarily agree to participate in the study and sign an adult form or a minor's informed consent form
  • Subjects and/or their legal guardians have the ability to understand (non-illiterate) research procedures and participate in all planned follow-ups
  • On the day of enrollment, the axillary body temperature of people aged 14 and under was \<37.5℃, and the axillary body temperature of people over 14 years of age was \<37.3℃
  • Female subjects of childbearing age were not breast-feeding at the time of enrollment, were not pregnant (the urine pregnancy test was negative before vaccination (on the day)), had no pregnancy plan within 2 months after enrollment, and agreed to take effective measures within 2 months after enrolling in the study measures

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Have a history of rabies vaccination or use of rabies virus passive immunization preparations
  • A history of bites by mammals (such as dogs, cats, etc.) within 1 year before the first dose of vaccination (wound skin damage)
  • Previous vaccination has a history of severe allergies to any vaccine component that requires medical intervention: such as anaphylactic shock, allergic laryngeal edema, allergic purpura, thrombocytopenic purpura, local allergic necrosis, severe urticaria, etc.
  • Within 3 days before vaccination, acute febrile disease (body temperature under armpit>38.5℃) or in the acute onset of chronic disease, or taking antipyretic, analgesic, and anti-allergic drugs
  • Have received blood/blood-related products or immunoglobulins within 3 months before the first dose of vaccination; or plan to use such products within 1 month after the last dose of vaccination
  • Get any vaccine within 14 days before the first dose of vaccination
  • Any condition (such as splenectomy) caused asplenia or functional asplenia
  • Has been diagnosed with congenital or acquired immunodeficiency (), or received therapy within 3 months
  • Severe congenital malformations or (hereditary) diseases, serious chronic diseases (including but not limited to: heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes with comorbidities, allergic constitution, Guillain-Barre syndrome, etc.), evaluated by the investigator that it may affect research evaluation
  • People with a history or family history of convulsions, epilepsy, encephalopathy, and psychosis (including but not limited to: congenital brain hypoplasia, brain trauma, brain tumor, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral obstruction, brain nerve tissue damage caused by infection, chemical drug poisoning, etc.)
  • There are for intramuscular injection (diagnosed as any coagulation disorder or receiving anticoagulant treatment)
  • Are participating in other research or unregistered products (drugs, vaccines or devices, etc.) clinical research, or plan to participate in other clinical research before the end of this clinical research
  • The researcher believes that the subject has any conditions that may interfere with the evaluation of the research purpose
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(6)

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Informed consent

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Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

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Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

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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.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
2,480 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Investigational Vaccine - 5-dose program

    Freeze-dried human rabies vaccine (Vero cells), 0.5ml after reconstitution, with a titer of not less than 2.5IU, Anhui Zhifeilongkoma Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

    Biological: Freeze-dried human rabies vaccine (Vero cells) Zhifeilongkoma - 5-dose program

  • Experimental
    Investigational Vaccine - 4-dose program

    Freeze-dried human rabies vaccine (Vero cells), 0.5ml after reconstitution, with a titer of not less than 2.5IU, Anhui Zhifeilongkoma Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

    Biological: Freeze-dried human rabies vaccine (Vero cells) Zhifeilongkoma - 4-dose program

  • Active comparator
    Control vaccine - 5-dose program

    Freeze-dried human rabies vaccine (Vero cells), 0.5ml after reconstitution, titer not less than 2.5IU, Liaoning Chengda Biological Co., Ltd.

    Biological: Freeze-dried human rabies vaccine (Vero cells) Chengda - 5-dose program

  • Active comparator
    Control vaccine - 4-dose program

    Freeze-dried human rabies vaccine (Vero cells), 0.5ml after reconstitution, titer not less than 2.5IU, Liaoning Chengda Biological Co., Ltd.

    Biological: Freeze-dried human rabies vaccine (Vero cells) Chengda - 4-dose program

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Antibody positive conversion rate - Immunogenicity endpoint

    Antibody positive conversion rate of the test group and the control group of the pre-immune antibody-negative population

    Time frame: 14 days after the first dose of vaccination

  2. Geometric mean concentration - Immunogenicity endpoint

    Geometric mean concentration of the test group and the control group of the pre-immune antibody-negative population

    Time frame: 14 days after the first dose of vaccination

  3. Incidence of Adverse Events [Safety and Tolerability]

    Incidence of Adverse Events

    Time frame: within 30 minutes after each dose of vaccination; the first dose of vaccination to 30 days after the full course of vaccination

  4. Incidence of Serious Adverse Events [Safety and Tolerability]

    Incidence of Serious Adverse Events

    Time frame: The first dose of vaccination to 6 months after the full course of vaccination

Secondary outcomes

  1. Antibody positive conversion rate - Immunogenicity endpoint

    Antibody positive conversion rate

    Time frame: 7 days after the first dose of vaccination; 14 days, 6 months, 12 months after the full vaccination

  2. Geometric mean concentration - Immunogenicity endpoint

    Geometric mean concentration

    Time frame: 7 days after the first dose of vaccination; 14 days, 6 months, 12 months after the full vaccination

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 24, 2023, 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
NCT04852068
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 21, 2021
Start date
Apr 10, 2021
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Oct 30, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 24, 2023

Oversight

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