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Tolerability and Immunogenicity of a Single 40-ug Dose of rBV A/B for the Production of BabyBIG®

A Phase 2 interventional study of rBV A/B in Botulism, sponsored by California Department of Public Health. Completed at 2 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 69 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-30.

Sponsored by California Department of Public Health · Phase 2, Interventional, and Other

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
25
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 69 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This Phase 2, open-label, uncontrolled study designed to evaluate safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of a single dose of rBV A/B in healthy participants previously immunized with pentavalent botulinum toxoid (or pentavalent botulinum toxoid and rBV A/B) for occupational protection will be conducted to collect source plasma for potential use in the production of BabyBIG and to evaluate safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine in these participants over a 12-week period, with a follow-up safety assessment at 6 months.

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Conditions studied

  • Botulism

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In context

Botulism

20 studies on the registry are indexed under Botulism; 3 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 25 is below the median of 29 across 14 interventional studies indexed under Botulism.

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Lead sponsor

California Department of Public Health is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 69 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Have received pentavalent botulinum toxoid (or pentavalent botulinum toxoid and rBV A/B) for occupational protection under BB IND 0161 (or BB-IND-0161 and IND 015155)
  2. Are 18 to 69 years old at the time of consent
  3. Are healthy and have an acceptable medical history (defined as individuals who are free from significant cardiac, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, hematological, neurological, infective, muscular, infectious, rheumatic, immunological, or psychiatric diseases, as determined at screening) that will not interfere with the objectives of the study
  4. Meet the participant suitability requirements and recommendations for source plasma donors
  5. Participants of :

    • Must have negative pregnancy test at screening and within 24 hours prior to vaccination.
    • Must agree to not become pregnant until after the last plasma donation or until after the Week 12 visit (whichever occurs last).
    • Must agree to use at least one form of highly effective starting 30 days prior to rBV A/B administration through the end of the study. Acceptable forms of contraception include intrauterine device, birth control pills, injectable birth control, implantable birth control device, or any other U.S. FDA approved contraceptive method or a monogamous relationship with partner who has been vasectomized for at least 6 months prior to participant's enrollment or sexual abstinence.
  6. To be considered of non-childbearing potential, participants must be menopausal (no menstrual period for at least 12 months prior to screening) or be surgically sterile
  7. Are able to understand the requirements of the study, have provided written as evidenced by signature on an informed consent form (ICF) approved by the appropriate Institutional Review Board (IRB), and have agreed to abide by the study restrictions and return for the required assessments
  8. Agree to complete the participant home diary on a daily basis for 7 days post vaccination, as well as to report any severe adverse events (AEs) and serious AEs (SAEs), including serious new onset chronic illnesses (NOCIs) and concomitant medications during the study period
  9. Have provided written authorization for use and disclosure of protected health information
  10. Agree not to donate blood or blood products (outside of study procedures) until after the last plasma donation or until the Week 12 visit (whichever occurs last)
  11. Have personal health insurance

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Are pregnant or nursing
  2. Have a history of laboratory evidence of syphilis, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or infection with human immunodeficiency viruses () 1 or 2, human T-cell lymphotropic virus 1, virus (HBV), or virus (HCV)
  3. Have had a prior severe (Grade 3 or higher) local or severe (Grade 3 or higher) systemic reaction to last immunization with PBT
  4. Have had a prior severe immediate reaction or severe systemic reaction on Day 0 to last vaccination with rBV A/B
  5. Have known allergy to aluminum, yeast, or other components of the vaccine
  6. Have donated one or more units of blood or undergone plasmapheresis within 49 days prior to enrollment
  7. Have received a blood product or immunoglobulin within 6 months prior to enrollment or plans to receive such products during the study period (exclusive of returned red blood cells as part of the plasmapheresis procedure). For participants who choose to donate plasma, this will apply until their last plasma donation or at the Week 12 visit (whichever occurs last)
  8. Have received licensed nonliving vaccine within 14 days prior to enrollment, or licensed within 60 days prior to enrollment
  9. Have received nonliving vaccine authorized for emergency use only within 14 days prior to enrollment, or living vaccine authorized for emergency use only within 60 days prior to enrollment
  10. Have received products (drugs, biologics, vaccines [except for those authorized for emergency use only per exclusion criterion 9], or implantable devices) within 60 days prior to enrollment or plans to receive experimental products at any time during the study period. For participants who choose to donate plasma, this will apply until their last plasma donation or at the Week 12 visit (whichever occurs last)
  11. Have received prescription or immunomodulatory agents, including parenteral, inhaled, or oral within 3 months of enrollment or plans on receiving such therapy at any time during the study period. For participants who choose to donate plasma, this will apply until their last plasma donation or at the Week 12 visit (whichever occurs last), with the exceptions mentioned below:

    • Participants who have used prescription topical steroids may be enrolled 2 weeks after the therapy is completed
    • Intra-articular, bursal, or tendon injectable steroids are permitted
    • Any over-the-counter topical steroid use is permitted
    • Ophthalmic and intranasal steroids are permitted
  12. Have received cytotoxic therapy at any time in the previous 5 years before enrollment
  13. Have an active systemic or recurrent disease that would place the participant at unacceptable risk of injury, require hospitalization, or require surgical intervention (This includes active mental illness or history of mental illness not responsive to treatment.)
  14. Have a history of alcohol or drug abuse or dependence within 12 months of enrollment
  15. Have past, present, or suspected illicit injection drug use
  16. Have inflammatory, vasculitic, or rheumatic disease, including systemic lupus erythematosus, polymyalgia rheumatica, rheumatoid arthritis, or scleroderma (Stable osteoarthritis treated with physical therapy and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs is not an exclusion criterion.)
  17. Have any acute or chronic neuromuscular or neurologic disorder
  18. Have clinically confirmed hepatic or renal insufficiency
  19. Have uncontrolled hypertension, as defined a systolic blood pressure greater than 160 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure greater than 90 mmHg
  20. Have moderate to severe asthma, , or other significant pulmonary disease
  21. Have a seizure disorder
  22. Have moderate or severe illness or oral temperature of 100.4°F or greater within 3 days prior to enrollment
  23. Have any positive result for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) using an FDA-cleared or FDA-authorized test within 14 days of enrollment
  24. Be unsuitable for participation in this study for any reason, as assessed by the investigator
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(12)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

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.

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.

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.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
25 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Vaccine

    rBV A/B

    Biological: rBV A/B

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportion of Subjects Achieving Equal to or Greater Than 4-Fold Increase in Neutralizing Antibody Concentration (NAC)

    The primary immunogenicity endpoint is the proportion of participants achieving a three or four times or greater increase in NAC by Week 4 compared with Week 0. A positive response will be defined as achieving this level of increase in at least 50% of the participants for botulinum toxin type A and type B.

    Time frame: Week 0 to Week 4

Secondary outcomes

  1. Proportion of Subjects Achieving 2-Fold Increase in Area Under the Plasma Concentration-Time Curve in Neutralizing Antibody Concentration (NAC)

    The proportion of participants achieving two times increase in the area under the plasma concentration-time curve between Week 0 and Week 12 in NAC in comparison to a straight-line extension of the Week 0 NAC to Week 12. A positive response will be defined as achieving this level of increase in at least 50% of participants for botulinum toxin type A and type B.

    Time frame: Week 0 to Week 12

Other outcomes

  1. Volume of Plasma Collected With Anti-Botulinum Toxin Type A and Anti-Botulinum Toxin Type B Antibody Titers

    The volume of source plasma containing neutralizing antibodies against botulinum toxin type A and type B collected by plasmapheresis for use in BabyBIG manufacture.

    Time frame: Week 0 to Week 12

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Results

Posted Jun 18, 2026

Participant flow

A total of 25 participants were enrolled during the recruiting period from 09 July 2024 to 17 October 2024.

Participant flow — Overall Study
Milestone0.5 mL rBV A/B
Started25
Screening25
Participants received rbv a/b injection25
Participants included in the plasma-donating population22
Participants completed follow up25
Completed25
Not completed0

Outcome measures

PrimaryProportion of Subjects Achieving Equal to or Greater Than 4-Fold Increase in Neutralizing Antibody Concentration (NAC)

The primary immunogenicity endpoint is the proportion of participants achieving a three or four times or greater increase in NAC by Week 4 compared with Week 0. A positive response will be defined as achieving this level of increase in at least 50% of the participants for botulinum toxin type A and type B.

Time frame:
Week 0 to Week 4
Reported as:
Number · proportion of participants
Proportion of Subjects Achieving Equal to or Greater Than 4-Fold Increase in Neutralizing Antibody Concentration (NAC)
proportion of participants0.5 mL rBV A/B
Proportion of participants with a ≥4 × increase in type A NAC0.84 (0.639 to 0.955)
Proportion of participants with a ≥3 × increase in Type A NAC0.84 (0.639 to 0.955)
Proportion of participants with a ≥4 × increase in Type B NAC0.76 (0.549 to 0.906)
Proportion of participants with a ≥3 × increase in Type B NAC0.84 (0.639 to 0.955)
Statistical analysis
  • 0.5 mL rBV A/B · Single proportion: 0.84 · 95% CI 0.639 to 0.955Values listed in table are for Type A. Estimated Value for the Estimation Parameter for type B = 0.76. Lower limit = 0.549, upper limit = 0.906
SecondaryProportion of Subjects Achieving 2-Fold Increase in Area Under the Plasma Concentration-Time Curve in Neutralizing Antibody Concentration (NAC)

The proportion of participants achieving two times increase in the area under the plasma concentration-time curve between Week 0 and Week 12 in NAC in comparison to a straight-line extension of the Week 0 NAC to Week 12. A positive response will be defined as achieving this level of increase in at least 50% of participants for botulinum toxin type A and type B.

Time frame:
Week 0 to Week 12
Reported as:
Number · proportion of participants
Proportion of Subjects Achieving 2-Fold Increase in Area Under the Plasma Concentration-Time Curve in Neutralizing Antibody Concentration (NAC)
proportion of participants0.5 mL rBV A/B
two times or greater increase in type A NAC compared with Week 00.92 (0.740 to 0.990)
two times or greater increase in type B NAC compared with Week 00.92 (0.740 to 0.990)
Other pre-specifiedVolume of Plasma Collected With Anti-Botulinum Toxin Type A and Anti-Botulinum Toxin Type B Antibody Titers

The volume of source plasma containing neutralizing antibodies against botulinum toxin type A and type B collected by plasmapheresis for use in BabyBIG manufacture.

Time frame:
Week 0 to Week 12
Reported as:
Number · mL
Volume of Plasma Collected With Anti-Botulinum Toxin Type A and Anti-Botulinum Toxin Type B Antibody Titers
mL0.5 mL rBV A/B
Total volume of plasma from all donating participants356,436
Total volume of plasma from all donating participants with a positive titer (mg[%])356,436
Total volume of plasma from donating participants with positive anti-A titer356,436
Total volume of plasma from donating participants with positive anti-B titer356,436

Adverse events

Collected over Non-serious AEs (injection site reactions/systemic reactions) were only collected from day 0 to day 7 during the participant diary collection period. For the rest of the study (from day 7 through 12 weeks of site visits and through the week 26 follow up phone call), AEs were only collected if they were SAEs. SAEs and new onset chronic illnesses (NOCIs) were monitored until the final safety follow-up call at Week 26.. Non-serious events are listed at a 0% frequency threshold.

Adverse event summary by group
GroupDeathsSeriousOther
0.5 mL rBV A/B0/25 (0%)0/25 (0%)0/25 (0%)

Baseline characteristics

Age, Categorical
Age, Categorical(Participants)0.5 mL rBV A/B
<=18 years0
Between 18 and 65 years23
>=65 years2
Age, Continuous
Age, Continuous(years)0.5 mL rBV A/B
Mean50.4 ± 8.16
Age, Continuous
Age, Continuous(years)0.5 mL rBV A/B
Median48.0 (39 to 67)
Sex: Female, Male
Sex: Female, Male(Participants)0.5 mL rBV A/B
Female15
Male10
Race (NIH/OMB)
Race (NIH/OMB)(Participants)0.5 mL rBV A/B
American Indian or Alaska Native0
Asian5
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander0
Black or African American1
White19
More than one race0
Unknown or Not Reported0
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)(Participants)0.5 mL rBV A/B
Hispanic or Latino0
Not Hispanic or Latino25
Unknown or Not Reported0
Region of Enrollment
Region of Enrollment(Participants)0.5 mL rBV A/B
United States25
Previous BabyBIG Plasma Donor
Previous BabyBIG Plasma Donor(Participants)0.5 mL rBV A/B
Number24
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Study locations

2 sites
  • California Department of Public Health
    Richmond, California 94804, United States
  • Battelle Biomedical Research Center
    West Jefferson, Ohio 43162, United States
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References and documents

Study documents

PDFs hosted by the registry, ClinicalTrials.gov.

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 Jul 30, 2026, 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
NCT06112834
Lead sponsor
California Department of Public Health
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 2, 2023
Start date
Jul 9, 2024
Primary completion
Jun 2, 2025
Completion
Jun 2, 2025
Results posted
Jun 18, 2026
Last update
Jul 30, 2026

Oversight

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