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
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.
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.
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.
Browse Influenza, Human studies →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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Exclusion Criteria:
Subjects meeting any of the following exclusion criteria will be not eligible for enrollment.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
QIV in adults and adolescents aged 9-59 years on Day 0
Biological: QIV
Control Vaccine in adults and adolescents aged 9-59 years on Day 0
Biological: QIV Control
QIV in elders aged 60 years and above on Day 0
Biological: QIV
Control vaccine in elders aged 60 years and above on Day 0
Biological: QIV Control
QIV in children aged 3-8 years on Day 0 and Day 28
Biological: QIV
QIV in children aged 3-8 years on Day 0
Biological: QIV
Control vaccine n children aged 3-8 years on Day 0
Biological: QIV Control
Quadrivalent Influenza Virus Split Vaccine containing H1N1, H3N2, Bv, By antigens of 0.5ml for each dose
Quadrivalent Influenza Virus Split Vaccine containing each type of antigens of 0.5ml for each dose
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Plan to share: No
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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.
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