A Phase 3 interventional study of CHIKV VLP vaccine booster and Placebo booster in Chikungunya Virus Infection, sponsored by Bavarian Nordic. Active, not recruiting at 24 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 12 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-07.
Sponsored by Bavarian Nordic · Phase 3, Interventional, and Prevention
The purpose of this phase 3 multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled rollover study is to evaluate the safety and long-term immunogenicity of CHIKV VLP vaccine in adult and adolescent participants and to evaluate CHIKV VLP booster vaccine induced serum neutralizing antibody (SNA) response at 3 or 4 years post-initial CHIKV VLP vaccination.
Primary Objectives:
Secondary Objectives:
88 studies on the registry are indexed under Chikungunya Fever; 21 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 715 is above the median of 263 across 57 interventional studies indexed under Chikungunya Fever.
Browse Chikungunya Fever studies →Bavarian Nordic is the lead sponsor of 58 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.
Of its 16 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 12 (75%) have results posted.
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Additional inclusion criteria to be assessed at Prerandomization Visit (Visit 5), before Randomization A (Visit 6), and before Randomization B (Visit 8 for Group 2) to determine eligibility for a booster dose of CHIKV VLP vaccine or placebo:
- Women who are either: i. Not of (CBP): premenarche, surgically sterile (at least six weeks postbilateral tubal ligation or bilateral total salpingectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, or hysterectomy), or (defined as a history of ≥12 consecutive months without menses prior to randomization in the absence of other pathologic or physiologic causes, following cessation of exogenous sex-hormonal treatment). For women who are postmenopausal, documented follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level of ≥40 mIU/mL must be obtained. If the FSH is \<40 mIU/mL, the participant must agree to use an acceptable form of . or: ii. Meet all the below criteria:
Women participants of CBP must use an acceptable method of contraception from ≥30 days prior to Randomization A or assignment to Group 1; those who are randomized to Group 2 at year 3 can discontinue contraception until 30 days prior to booster dose administration, if desired. Women participants of CBP must use an acceptable method of contraception from ≥30 days prior to Randomization B through six-months postbooster vaccination dose (if applicable). Women participants of CBP randomized to Group 3 can discontinue contraception, if desired.
Note: Contraception requirements do not apply for participants in exclusively same-sex relationships and these participants should have no plans to become pregnant by any other means during the same time period as women of CBP are required to use contraception. Contraception requirements do not apply to Group 4 participants (unrandomized or unboosted).
Exclusion Criteria:
Additional exclusion criteria to be assessed at Prerandomization Visit (Visit 5), before Randomization A (Visit 6), and before Randomization B (Visit 8 for Group 2) to determine eligibility for a booster dose of CHIKV VLP vaccine or placebo:
Group 1: 30 days prior to Randomization A or assignment to Group 1 at Visit 6 through Visit 7 Group 2: 30 days prior to Randomization A at Visit 6 until the Randomization A visit and 30 days prior to booster dose at Visit 8 through Visit 9 Group 3: 30 days prior to Randomization A at Visit 6 until the Randomization A visit Group 4: 30 days prior to Randomization A at Visit 6 until the Randomization A visit Note: Participation in an observational trial or follow-up phase of a trial may be allowed; however, these instances should be discussed with this study's medical monitor (MM).
Note: Participants that are ineligible or decline booster will be included in Group 4 (unrandomized or unboosted) for follow-up unless consent/assent for follow-up is withdrawn.
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
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.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
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.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
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.
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.
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.
Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.
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.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Postmenopausal
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CHIKV VLP vaccine booster, 3 years post initial vaccination
Biological: CHIKV VLP vaccine booster
Placebo booster, 3 years post initial vaccination
Biological: Placebo booster
CHIKV VLP vaccine booster, 4 years post initial vaccination
Biological: CHIKV VLP vaccine booster
Placebo booster, 4 years post initial vaccination
Biological: Placebo booster
Up to protocol-defined unboosted participants
All other unrandomized or unboosted participants, for any reason
CHIKV VLP vaccine is comprised of chikungunya virus virus-like particles (CHIKV VLP) 40 µg, aluminum hydroxide 2% adjuvant, and formulation buffer supplied as a single dose of 0.8 mL in a pre-filled syringe, to be administered via intramuscular (IM) injection in the deltoid muscle.
Also known as: PXVX0317, VIMKUNYA ®
Placebo is comprised of formulation buffer supplied as a single dose of 0.8 mL in a pre-filled syringe administered via IM injection in the deltoid muscle.
Proportion of participants maintaining a preboost anti-CHIKV SNA titer ≥100 at yearly intervals up to 5 years post-initial vaccination
For all groups using the immunogenicity evaluable population (IEP) the proportion of participants maintaining a preboost anti-CHIKV SNA titer ≥100 (seroresponse rate, also considered the presumptive seroprotection rate) at yearly intervals up to 5 years post-initial vaccination in one of the feeder studies; only prebooster data will be summarized.
Time frame: 5 years post-initial vaccination in feeder study EBSI-CV-317-004 or EBSI-CV317-005 until booster
Proportion of vaccine boosted participants with composite booster response at 21 days after booster vaccination
For IEP participants who receive a CHIKV VLP vaccine booster (Groups 1a and 2a), proportion of participants with a boost response is defined as a composite of: * ≥4-fold rise in anti-CHIKV SNA titer from prebooster to postbooster measured at 21 days after booster for participants with a prebooster titer ≥100 OR * Anti-CHIKV SNA titer ≥100 and ≥4-fold increase in anti-CHIKV SNA titer from prebooster to postbooster measured at 21 days after booster vaccination for participants with a prebooster titer \<100. Note: Prebooster is the last SNA sample prior to booster dose, ideally the sample on boost day prior to booster dose administration but can be the time point prior if the boost day sample is missed or incorrectly processed.
Time frame: 21 days after booster vaccination
Anti-CHIKV SNA Geometric Mean Titers (GMTs) at yearly intervals
For all groups using the IEP, anti-CHIKV SNA GMTs preboost at yearly intervals up to 5 years post-initial CHIKV VLP vaccination in feeder study EBSI-CV-317-004 or EBSI-CV-317-005; only prebooster data will be summarized.
Time frame: 5 years post-initial vaccination in feeder study EBSI-CV-317-004 or EBSI-CV-317-005 until booster
Anti-CHIKV SNA GMTs at 21 days postboost
Anti-CHIKV SNA GMTs in Groups 1a and 2a (CHIKV VLP IEP booster population), at 21 days postboost.
Time frame: 21 days postboost for Groups 1a and 2a
Anti-CHIKV SNA Geometric Mean Fold Increase (GMFI) Prebooster to Postbooster
For IEP participants who receive a CHIKV VLP vaccine booster (Groups 1a and 2a) and have a 21-day postbooster SNA titer, GMFI from prebooster anti-CHIKV SNA titer to 21 days postbooster anti-CHIKV SNA titer and at yearly intervals up to 5 years post-initial vaccination in feeder study EBSI-CV-317-004 or EBSI-CV-317-005.
Time frame: 21 days after booster vaccination and 5 years post-initial vaccination in feeder study EBSI-CV-317-004 or EBSI-CV-317-005
Booster Response at 21 Days Relative to 21-day Response in Feeder Study EBSI-CV-317-004 or EBSI-CV-317-005
For IEP participants who receive a CHIKV VLP vaccine booster (Groups 1a and 2a) and have a 21-day postboost SNA titer, GMFI from feeder study EBSI-CV-317-004 or EBSI-CV-317-005 Day 22 SNA titer to 21-day postbooster SNA titer in the rollover study.
Time frame: 21 days after booster vaccination
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