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Not yet recruitingNCT06800950Updated Jan 30, 2025

Phase III Clinical Trial of Quadrivalent Influenza Virus Split Vaccine

A Phase 3 interventional study of QIV and QIV Control in Influenza, Human, Influenza, Human Prevention and Influenza a, sponsored by Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Not yet recruiting at 3 sites in China. Open to participants aged 3 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-01-30.

Sponsored by Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences · Phase 3, Interventional, and Prevention

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jul 2025, 1 year 3 months ago, but the record still lists the study as not yet recruiting.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
4,400
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
3 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a randomized, blinded, active-controlled phase III clinical trial to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of the Quadrivalent Influenza Virus Split Vaccine (QIV) in subjects (aged 3 years and above). Primary immunogenicity endpoints are the geometric mean titers, geometric mean fold increases, seropositive rates, and seroconversion rates of anti-influenza virus HI antibodies for all types 30 days after immunization, and primary safety endpoints are the occurrence of safety events after vaccination including the incidence of adverse events/adverse reactions within 30 minutes/7 days/30 days after immunization, as well as the incidence of serious adverse events/adverse relations within 6 months which will be defined as the secondary safety endpoint. Besides, the secondary endpoints are to evaluate the same index above in different administration programs in children aged 3-8 years.

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This is a randomized, blinded, active-controlled phase III clinical trial to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety in 4400 subjects (aged 3 years and above). Then 1760 children (aged 3-8 years), 1320 adults/adolescents (aged 9-59 years), and 1320 elders (aged 60 years and above) are eligible for enrollment after assessing the medical history and physical examination.

1760 children's strata contains 1320 children with no history of influenza vaccine and 440 children with a history of influenza vaccine. Those 1320 children to the 2-dose vaccine, 1-dose vaccine, and control group in a ratio of 1:1:1, that is 440 subjects in the 2-dose vaccine cohort will receive 2 doses of experimental vaccines in a 0,28 program, and 440 subjects in the 1-dose vaccine or control cohort will receive 1 dose of experimental or active-controlled vaccine. The rest of the 440 children with a history of influenza vaccine will be randomly assigned to a 1-dose vaccine and control group in a ratio of 1:1, that is 220 subjects in the 1-dose vaccine or control cohort will receive 1 dose of experimental or active-controlled vaccine.

1320 adults/adolescents will be randomly assigned to a 1-dose vaccine and control group in a ratio of 1:1, that is 660 subjects in the 1-dose vaccine or control cohort will receive 1 dose of experimental or active-controlled vaccine.

1320 elders will be randomly assigned to a 1-dose vaccine and control group in a ratio of 1:1, that is 660 subjects in the 1-dose vaccine or control cohort will receive 1 dose of experimental or active-controlled vaccine.

The duration of intervention is no more than 1 month. With the 6-month safety monitoring after administration, the duration of the study is no more than 7 months.

For immunogenicity assessment, antibodies against all vaccine-related types of Influenza virus will be assessed in all subjects before vaccination and 30 days after full vaccination.

For safety assessment, the observation and evaluation of adverse events from Day 0 to Day 30 after each dose will be conducted by diary/contact cards and investigators' phone calls. Besides, the observation and evaluation of serious adverse events up to 6 months after vaccination will be conducted by active reports by subjects' legal guardians, or investigators' phone calls as well as face-to-face visits. Meanwhile, subjects will be observed at the site for at least 30 minutes after each dose.

For laboratory examination, urine routine tests or urine pregnancy tests (if applicable) will be performed on Day 0 before vaccination.

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Conditions studied

  • Influenza, Human
  • Influenza, Human Prevention
  • Influenza a
  • Influenza B
  • Influenza Viral Infections

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In context

Influenza, Human

2,356 studies on the registry are indexed under Influenza, Human; 184 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 4,400 is above the median of 227 across 1,957 interventional studies indexed under Influenza, Human.

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Lead sponsor

Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences is the lead sponsor of 29 studies on the registry; 10 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
3 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Age Requirement: volunteers aged 3 years and above at the time of enrollment.
  • Provision of Legal Identification: Volunteers and their legal guardians or appointed representatives must provide valid legal identification documents.
  • : Volutters, legal guardians, or appointed representatives of volunteers must have the capacity to understand the informed consent document and the research process, voluntarily participate, sign the informed consent form, and be able to comply with the requirements in the study as well as complete relevant visits on time.
  • Requirements for : agree to take contraception actions in 6 months.
  • Temperature Requirement: Axillary body temperature is less than 37.3°C.
  • Previous Vaccination Requirements: (a) Received at least 1 dose of influenza vaccine within 1 year before screening in children aged 3-8 years; (b) Never received any influenza vaccine 1 year before screening in children aged over 3 years.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

Subjects meeting any of the following exclusion criteria will be not eligible for enrollment.

  • Subjects with a history of severe allergy to egg or egg protein, such as those who have had symptoms such as angioedema, dyspnea, chest distress, or repeated vomiting due to eating eggs, and even those who have used epinephrine or other emergency medical treatment, especially those who have symptoms immediately or within a short period (minutes to hours).
  • Subjects with influenza illness (clinically, serologically, or microbiologically confirmed) within 6 months before screening and enrollment.
  • Have received an influenza vaccine within 1 year before enrollment or scheduled to receive another influenza vaccine during the study period.
  • Allergic to any component contained in the vaccine, or previous history of severe allergic to any vaccine or drug, such as anaphylactic shock, laryngeal edema, anaphylactic purpura, thrombocytopenic purpura, local allergic necrosis reaction, dyspnea, angioedema, systemic rash and/or urticaria, etc.
  • History of taking administration of a non-SARS-CoV-2 inactivated vaccine or subunit vaccine within 7 days before enrollment, or any or SARS-CoV-2 vaccine within 14 days before enrollment, or subjects have scheduled to receive another vaccine within 1 month after receipt of the investigational vaccine
  • Subjects with convulsion, epilepsy, encephalopathy (such as moderate to severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, intracranial hemorrhage, cerebral palsy, intracranial tumor, cerebral infarction, stroke, intracranial infection, etc.), psychiatric history or family history
  • Have been diagnosed with a serious medical condition or congenital malformation that may interfere with the conduct or completion of the study (including but not limited to suffering from respiratory diseases such as asthma or during episodes of chronic bronchitis, Down syndrome, thalassemia, heart disease, severe cardiac arrhythmias, kidney disease, diabetes (diabetics with poor glycemic control or severe complications), diseases, genetic allergies, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Crohn disease, , severe infectious/allergic skin diseases, etc.)
  • Adults aged 18 years or older with medically uncontrolled abnormal blood pressure (systolic blood pressure ≥140mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90mmHg or systolic blood pressure ≤ 90mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≤ 60 mmHg)
  • Subjects with acute illness or in the acute phase of a chronic illness within 3 days before vaccination
  • Subjects with fever (axillary temperature ≥37.3 ° C) within 3 days before vaccination or use of antipyretic, analgesic, or antiallergic medications
  • Subjects with a hereditary bleeding tendency or coagulopathy, or a history of bleeding disorders
  • Have received a blood transfusion or use of blood products within 3 months before enrollment, or planned to do so within 1 month after full immunization
  • History of surgical removal of the spleen or other vital organs for any reason
  • Use of any investigational or unregistered product (drug, vaccine, biological product, or device) other than a study vaccine within 3 months before enrollment or planned for use during the study
  • Have treatment with agents within 6 months before enrollment, such as long-term systemic therapy (e.g., prednisone or a similar drug for more than 2 consecutive weeks within 6 months), but topical use (e.g., ointments, eye drops, inhalers, or nasal sprays) was allowed. Topical use should not exceed the recommended dose on the label or have any signs of systemic exposure
  • Have been diagnosed with an infectious disease that may interfere with the conduct or completion of the study, such as active tuberculosis, , , (HIV) infection, etc
  • Being lactating, pregnant (including a positive urine pregnancy test), or planning to become pregnant within 6 months of vaccination
  • Subjects plan to move out of the local area before the end of the study or leave the local area for an extended period during the scheduled study visit
  • Subjects with abnormal vital signs with clinical significance
  • Investigators' Discretion: The final exclusion criterion is the discretion of investigators to determine whether a subject is suitable for participation in the study.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(11)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
4,400 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intervention (Aged 9-59 years, one-dose)

    QIV in adults and adolescents aged 9-59 years on Day 0

    Biological: QIV

  • Active comparator
    Control (Aged 9-59 years, one-dose)

    Control Vaccine in adults and adolescents aged 9-59 years on Day 0

    Biological: QIV Control

  • Experimental
    Intervention (Elders aged 60 years and above, one-dose)

    QIV in elders aged 60 years and above on Day 0

    Biological: QIV

  • Active comparator
    Control (Elders aged 60 years and above, one-dose)

    Control vaccine in elders aged 60 years and above on Day 0

    Biological: QIV Control

  • Experimental
    Intervention (Children aged 3-8 years, two-dose)

    QIV in children aged 3-8 years on Day 0 and Day 28

    Biological: QIV

  • Experimental
    Intervention (Children aged 3-8 years, one-dose)

    QIV in children aged 3-8 years on Day 0

    Biological: QIV

  • Active comparator
    Control (Children aged 3-8 years, one-dose)

    Control vaccine n children aged 3-8 years on Day 0

    Biological: QIV Control

Interventions

  • BiologicalQIV

    Quadrivalent Influenza Virus Split Vaccine containing H1N1, H3N2, Bv, By antigens of 0.5ml for each dose

  • BiologicalQIV Control

    Quadrivalent Influenza Virus Split Vaccine containing each type of antigens of 0.5ml for each dose

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Immunogenicity index - seroconversion rates of HI antibody against all types

    Antibody assay will be performed using the hemagglutination inhibition test. Seroconversion will be defined as a change from seronegative (Antibody titers\<1:40) to seropositive (Antibody titers≥1:40), or a ≥4-fold increase from baseline.

    Time frame: Between baseline and Day 30 after full vaccination

  2. Immunogenicity index - Seropositive rates of HI antibody against all types

    Antibody assay will be performed using the hemagglutination inhibition test. Seropositive is defined as antibody titers≥1:40

    Time frame: Day 30 after full vaccination

  3. Immunogenicity index - geometric mean titer (GMT) of HI antibody against all types

    Antibody assay will be performed using the hemagglutination inhibition test.

    Time frame: Day 30 after full vaccination

  4. Safety index - incidence of adverse events/adverse reactions

    Incidence of adverse events/adverse reactions after the first dose vaccination

    Time frame: Day 0 to 7 after the first dose vaccination

  5. Safety index - incidence of adverse events/adverse reactions

    Incidence of adverse events/adverse reactions after the second dose vaccination (applicable for the two-dose children cohort)

    Time frame: Day 0 to 7 after the second dose vaccination

  6. Safety index - incidence of adverse events/adverse reactions

    Incidence of adverse events/adverse reactions after full vaccination

    Time frame: From Day 0 to Day 30 after full vaccination

Secondary outcomes

  1. Safety index - incidence of serious adverse events/adverse reactions

    Incidence of serious adverse events/adverse reactions after vaccination

    Time frame: From the beginning of the vaccination up to 6 months after the last vaccination completed

  2. Immunogenicity index - seroconversion rates of HI antibody against all types

    Antibody assay will be performed using the hemagglutination inhibition test. Seroconversion will be defined as a change from seronegative (Antibody titers\<1:40) to seropositive (Antibody titers≥1:40), or a ≥4-fold increase from baseline. (Applicable for susceptible cohort)

    Time frame: Between baseline and Day 30 after full vaccination

  3. Immunogenicity index - Seropositive rates of HI antibody against all types

    Antibody assay will be performed using the hemagglutination inhibition test. Seropositive is defined as antibody titers≥1:40 (Applicable for susceptible cohort)

    Time frame: Day 30 after full vaccination

  4. Immunogenicity index - geometric mean titer (GMT) of HI antibody against all types

    Antibody assay will be performed using the hemagglutination inhibition test. (Applicable for susceptible cohort)

    Time frame: Day 30 after full vaccination

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Study locations

3 sites
  • Xing'an Center for Disease Control and Prevention
    Guilin, Guangxi, China
  • Yangshuo Center for Disease Control and Prevention
    Guilin, Guangxi, China
  • Binyang Center for Disease Control and Prevention
    Nanning, Guangxi, China
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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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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Start is estimated for Feb 2025; primary completion for Jul 2025, 5 months later.

Of 35 non-industry phase 3 interventional studies under Influenza, Human, half reached primary completion within 16 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 8 and three quarters within 41. This study's planned 5 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 153 studies reached it within 8 months; a quarter within 4 and three quarters within 15.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jan 24, 2025
First posted
Jan 30, 2025
StartEst.
Feb 8, 2025
Primary completionEst.
Jul 15, 2025
CompletionEst.
Oct 15, 2025
Last update
Jan 30, 2025
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 30, 2025, 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
NCT06800950
Lead sponsor
Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Collaborators
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Prevention and Control
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 30, 2025
Start date
Feb 8, 2025 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jul 15, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Oct 15, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Jan 30, 2025

Study contacts

Guoyang Liao
Contact
liaogy@imbcams.com.cn
0871-68334483 ext. +86
Teng Huang
principal investigator · Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Prevention and Control

Oversight

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