A Phase 3 interventional study of TDV and Placebo in Dengue Fever, sponsored by Takeda. Active, not recruiting at 7 sites in 4 countries. Open to participants aged 45 Years to 79 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-22.
Sponsored by Takeda · Phase 3, Interventional, and Prevention
Dengue fever is caused by an infection with the dengue virus. Vaccination with Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine (TDV) can help prevent dengue fever. Researchers have seen that dengue fever now also happens more often in elderly persons. The main aim of this study is to learn more about the side effects of TDV in adult (45 - 60 years) and elderly (60 - 79 years) persons and about TDV's ability to create an immune response in adult and elderly persons. Another aim is to learn about the side effects of TDV in adult and elderly persons in endemic countries who have one or more additional medical conditions (called comorbidities) such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension or a chronic kidney condition.
In this study, participants will receive 2 vaccinations with TDV (the second 3 months after the first).
During the study, participants will visit their study clinic 5 times.
283 studies on the registry are indexed under Dengue; 44 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 800 is above the median of 132 across 197 interventional studies indexed under Dengue.
Browse Dengue studies →Takeda is the lead sponsor of 1,026 studies on the registry; 89 are open to participants now.
Of its 178 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 154 (87%) have results posted.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Participant has a known or suspected altered immunocompetence, including:
Participant has received any of the following:
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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.
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.
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.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants with the age group greater than (\>) 60 to 79 years will receive TDV, 0.5 mL subcutaneous (SC) injections, on Day 1 and Day 90.
Biological: TDV
Participants with the age group \>60 to 79 years will receive placebo (normal saline), 0.5 mL SC injections, on Day 1 and Day 90.
Other: Placebo
Participants with the age group 45 to 60 years will receive TDV, 0.5 mL SC injection, on Day 1 and Day 90.
Biological: TDV
TDV SC injection.
Also known as: TAK-003
Placebo SC injection.
Number of Participants with Solicited Local (Injection Site) Adverse Events (AEs) Within 7 Days Post Vaccination at Day 1
An AE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical investigation participant administered an investigational medical product (IMP); it does not necessarily have to have a causal relationship with IMP administration. Solicited local AEs are injection site pain/tenderness, erythema, and swelling at the vaccination site. All solicited AEs at the injection site will be considered related to the study vaccine administration.
Time frame: Within 7 days post-vaccination at Day 1
Number of Participants with Solicited Local (Injection Site) Adverse Events (AEs) Within 7 Days Post Vaccination at Day 90
Solicited local AEs are injection site pain/tenderness, erythema, and swelling at the vaccination site. All solicited AEs at the injection site will be considered related to the study vaccine administration.
Time frame: Within 7 days post-vaccination at Day 90
Number of Participants with Solicited Systemic AEs Within 14 Days Post Vaccination at Day 1
Solicited systemic AEs include fever (body temperature greater than or equal to \[\>=\] 38 degree Celsius \[C\], asthenia, malaise, headache, and myalgia.
Time frame: Within 14 days post-vaccination at Day 1
Number of Participants with Solicited Systemic AEs Within 14 Days Post Vaccination at Day 90
Solicited systemic AEs include fever (body temperature \>= 38 degree (C), asthenia, malaise, headache, and myalgia.
Time frame: Within 14 days post-vaccination at Day 90
Percentage of Participants with Solicited Local (Injection Site) AEs by Severity Within 7 Days Post Vaccination at Day 1
Solicited local AEs are injection site pain/tenderness, erythema, and swelling at the vaccination site. All solicited AEs at the injection site will be considered related to the study vaccine administration. The AEs will be graded by investigator as Grade 0: none, Grade 1: mild, Grade 2: moderate and Grade 3: severe.
Time frame: Within 7 days post-vaccination at Day 1
Percentage of Participants with Solicited Local (Injection Site) AEs by Severity Within 7 Days Post Vaccination at Day 90
Solicited local AEs are injection site pain/tenderness, erythema, and swelling at the vaccination site. All solicited AEs at the injection site will be considered related to the study vaccine administration. The AEs will be graded by investigator as Grade 0: none, Grade 1: mild, Grade 2: moderate and Grade 3: severe.
Time frame: Within 7 days post-vaccination at Day 90
Percentage of Participants with Solicited Systemic AEs by Severity Within 14 Days Post Vaccination at Day 1
Solicited systemic AEs include fever (body temperature \>= 38 degree (C), asthenia, malaise, headache, and myalgia. The AEs will be graded by investigator as Grade 0: none, Grade 1: mild, Grade 2: moderate and Grade 3: severe.
Time frame: Within 14 days post-vaccination at Day 1
Percentage of Participants with Solicited Systemic AEs by Severity Within 14 Days Post Vaccination at Day 90
Solicited systemic AEs include fever (body temperature \>= 38 degree (C), asthenia, malaise, headache, and myalgia. The AEs will be graded by investigator as Grade 0: none, Grade 1: mild, Grade 2: moderate and Grade 3: severe.
Time frame: Within 14 days post-vaccination at Day 90
Percentage of Participants with Any Unsolicited AEs Within 28 Days Post Vaccination at Day 1
An unsolicited AE is any AE reported by the participant that is not specified as a solicited AE or is specified as a solicited AE but starts outside the period for reporting a solicited AE (that is, 7 days and 14 days in total including the day IMP administration).
Time frame: Within 28 days post-vaccination at Day 1
Percentage of Participants with Any Unsolicited AEs Within 28 Days Post Vaccination at Day 90
An unsolicited AE is any AE reported by the participant that is not specified as a solicited AE or is specified as a solicited AE but starts outside the period for reporting a solicited AE (that is, 7 days and 14 days in total including the day of IMP administration).
Time frame: Within 28 days post-vaccination at Day 90
Percentage of Participants with a Serious Adverse Event (SAE)
An SAE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence that: results in death, is life-threatening, requires inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization, results in persistent or significant disability/ incapacity, leads to a congenital anomaly/birth defect in the offspring of a participant, is an important medical event.
Time frame: From first vaccination on Day 1 through the end of trial (up to Day 270)
Geometric Mean Titers (GMTs) of Neutralizing Antibodies by Microneutralization Test (MNT) for Each of the 4 Dengue Virus Serotypes at Day 120
GMTs of neutralizing antibodies will be measured by microneutralization test 50% \[MNT50\] for each of the 4 Dengue Serotypes in all participants. The 4 dengue virus serotypes are dengue virus (DENV)-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4.
Time frame: At Day 120
Number of Participants with Solicited Local (Injection Site) AEs Within 7 Days Post Vaccination at Day 1 and Day 90 (With Comorbidities)
Solicited local AEs are injection site pain/tenderness, erythema, and swelling at the vaccination site. All solicited AEs at the injection site will be considered related to the study vaccine administration.
Time frame: Within 7 days post-vaccination at Day 1 and Day 90
Number of Participants with Solicited Systemic AEs Within 14 Days Post Vaccination at Day 1 and Day 90 (With Comorbidities)
Solicited systemic AEs include fever (body temperature \>= 38 degree (C), asthenia, malaise, headache, and myalgia.
Time frame: Within 14 days post-vaccination at Day 1 and Day 90
Percentage of Participants with Solicited Local (Injection Site) AEs by Severity Within 7 days Post Vaccination at Day 1 and Day 90 (With Comorbidities)
Solicited local AEs are injection site pain/tenderness, erythema, and swelling at the vaccination site. All solicited AEs at the injection site will be considered related to the study vaccine administration. The AEs will be graded by investigator as Grade 0: none, Grade 1: mild, Grade 2: moderate and Grade 3: severe.
Time frame: Within 7 days post-vaccination at Day 1 and Day 90
Percentage of Participants with Solicited Systemic AEs by Severity (With Comorbidities)
Solicited systemic AEs include fever (body temperature \>= 38 degree (C), asthenia, malaise, headache, and myalgia. The AEs will be graded by investigator as Grade 0: none, Grade 1: mild, Grade 2: moderate and Grade 3: severe.
Time frame: Within 14 days post-vaccination at Day 1 and Day 90
Percentage of Participants with Any Unsolicited AEs Within 28 Days Post Vaccination (With Comorbidities)
An unsolicited AE is any AE reported by the participant that is not specified as a solicited AE or is specified as a solicited AE but starts outside the period for reporting a solicited AE (that is, 7 days and 14 days in total including the day IMP administration).
Time frame: Within 28 days post-vaccination at Day 1 and Day 90
Percentage of Participants with a SAE (With Comorbidities)
An SAE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence that: results in death, is life-threatening, requires inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization, results in persistent or significant disability/ incapacity, leads to a congenital anomaly/birth defect in the offspring of a participant, is an important medical event.
Time frame: From first vaccination on Day 1 through the end of trial (up to Day 270)
Geometric Mean Titers by MNT for Each of the 4 Dengue Virus Serotypes
GMTs of neutralizing antibodies will be measured by MNT50 for each of the 4 dengue serotypes in all participants. The 4 dengue virus serotypes are DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4.
Time frame: Day 1, Day 30, Day 90 and Day 270
Geometric Mean Titers by MNT for Each of the 4 Dengue Virus Serotypes (With Comorbidities)
GMTs of neutralizing antibodies will be measured by MNT50 for each of the 4 dengue serotypes. The 4 dengue virus serotypes are DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4.
Time frame: Day 1, Day 30, Day 90, Day 120 and Day 270
Seropositivity Rate for Each of the 4 Dengue Virus Serotypes
Seropositivity rate is defined as the percentage of participants with MNT titer \>=10 against each of the four dengue virus serotypes in all participants. The 4 dengue virus serotypes are DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4.
Time frame: Day 1, Day 30, Day 90, Day 120 and Day 270
Seropositivity Rate for Each of the 4 Dengue Virus Serotypes (With Comorbidities)
Seropositivity rate is defined as the percentage of participants with MNT titer \>=10 against each of the four dengue virus serotypes. The 4 dengue virus serotypes are DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4.
Time frame: Day 1, Day 30, Day 90, Day 120 and Day 270
Seropositivity Rate for Multiple (2, 3, or 4) Dengue Virus Serotypes
Seropositivity rate is defined as the percentage of participants with MNT titer \>=10 against multiple (2, 3, or 4) dengue virus serotypes in all participants. The 4 dengue virus serotypes are DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4.
Time frame: Day 1, Day 30, Day 90, Day 120 and Day 270
Seropositivity Rate for Multiple (2, 3, or 4) Dengue Virus Serotypes (With Comorbidities)
Seropositivity rate is defined as the percentage of participants with MNT titer \>=10 against multiple (2, 3, or 4) dengue virus serotypes. The 4 dengue virus serotypes are DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4.
Time frame: Day 1, Day 30, Day 90, Day 120 and Day 270
Plan to share: Yes — Takeda provides access to the de-identified individual participant data (IPD) for eligible studies to aid qualified researchers in addressing legitimate scientific objectives (Takeda's data sharing commitment is available on https://clinicaltrials.takeda.com/takedas-commitment?commitment=5). These IPDs will be provided in a secure research environment following approval of a data sharing request, and under the terms of a data sharing agreement.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Informed consent form, Clinical study report
Access criteria: IPD from eligible studies will be shared with qualified researchers according to the criteria and process described on https://vivli.org/ourmember/takeda/. For approved requests, the researchers will be provided access to anonymized data (to respect patient privacy in line with applicable laws and regulations) and with information necessary to address the research objectives under the terms of a data sharing agreement.
Data sharing details ↗ · vivli.org
Started Jan 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Apr 2027, 14 months after the start.
Of 21 phase 3 interventional studies under Dengue, half reached primary completion within 24 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 7 and three quarters within 30. This study's planned 14 months is below that.
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