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Not yet recruitingNCT07270796DuoCholUpdated Apr 1, 2026

Safety and Immunogenicity Study of the DuoChol Oral Cholera Vaccine in Healthy Participants

A Phase 1 interventional study of DuoChol and Dukoral® in Cholera Vaccination Reaction, sponsored by International Vaccine Institute. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in Sweden. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 45 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-04-01.

Sponsored by International Vaccine Institute · Phase 1, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
60
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 45 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The goal of this phase I, open-label, randomized, active-controlled Trial is to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the DuoChol Oral Cholera Vaccine in 18 to 45 years old healthy participants in Sweden. This first-in-human study is intended to obtain initial data on the DuoChol oral cholera vaccine safety and its effect on immune responses in a cholera non-endemic setting to guide future studies in cholera endemic population. The Investigators will evaluate the safety and immunogenicity after each dose vaccination of DuoChol Oral Cholera Vaccine/Dukoral®.

The participants will be randomly assigned to receive 2 vaccinations at 14-day intervals of DuoChol or Dukoral® in a 2:1 ratio. Participants in the DuoChol arm will receive one capsule of DuoChol on days 0 and 14. Participants in the Dukoral® arm will receive the standard dose as indicated in the Dukoral® package insert. The Investigators will follow-up the participants for 4 weeks after the second vaccination.

The study is funded by Wellcome Trust, grant number : 226726/Z/22/Z.

Read the detailed description

A total of 60 healthy participants aged 18-45 in Sweden will be recruited and randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio: 40 participants will receive DuoChol, 20 participants will receive Dukoral®. Each person will receive two doses of DuoChol or Dukoral® orally. There participants will have 6 scheduled study visits, including blood sampling for immunogenicity testing and safety assessment.

Blood samples will be taken at screening, and then during the study, to check immune response and overall health status. Baseline tests include HIV, hepatitis, complete blood counts, and liver function test. Women of childbearing age will undergo pregnancy testing during screening and prior to each vaccination.

All participants will be observed after vaccination for immediate reactions. Serious adverse events will be reported, and followed up till resolution, and participants are instructed to contact the Investigator team if they experience any serious adverse event.

Study Objectives:

  • Primary: To evaluate the safety after each dose vaccination of DuoChol Oral Cholera Vaccine.
  • Secondary: To compare the immune response of DuoChol with the existing vaccine Dukoral® to assess whether DuoChol can generate a response in the immune system to protect against the disease.

Key Endpoints:

  • Monitor for any serious adverse events like hospitalization, death, or significant disability that happen during the study that may or may not be related to the vaccines.
  • Track immediate reactions within 1-2 hours after vaccination to detect allergic or other immediate responses.
  • Record mild to moderate side effects such as nausea, fever, or diarrhea for up to 14 days after each dose.
  • Measure immune response in the blood 14 days after each dose.
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Conditions studied

  • Cholera Vaccination Reaction

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Keywords

  • Oral Cholera Vaccine
  • DuoChol
  • Phase 1 Trial
  • V. cholerae O1 Inaba
  • V. cholerae O1 Ogawa
  • recombinant cholera toxin B-subunit
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In context

Cholera

83 studies on the registry are indexed under Cholera; 16 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 60 is below the median of 262 across 72 interventional studies indexed under Cholera.

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Lead sponsor

International Vaccine Institute is the lead sponsor of 47 studies on the registry; 12 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 45 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Healthy male or female participants aged 18 to 45 years, inclusive, at the time of signing the .
  2. Must have a Swedish (or other nationality) identity card
  3. Must be able to understand the information included in the informed consent form and be willing to provide voluntary informed consent to participate in the study
  4. Must agree to not take any medication affecting gastric acidity (such as proton pump inhibitor, H2 receptor blocker, or antacid) for 7 days prior to and until 24 hours after each vaccination.
  5. Must be able to attend all scheduled study visits and comply with all study procedures.
  6. Must be in good general health and without medical history, as determined by the study investigator using clinical judgement after review of medical history, physical examination, and laboratory screening tests (hematology, renal function, and liver function tests).
  7. Female-Specific Criteria:

    1. Not currently pregnant or breastfeeding and not planning to become pregnant for at least 12 weeks after last vaccination.
    2. Negative urine pregnancy test at the time of vaccination.
    3. Agree to use at least one acceptable an adequate method for at least 4 weeks prior to receipt of vaccine and for at least 12 weeks after receipt of the vaccine. Adequate birth control is defined as follows: Contraceptive medications delivered orally, intramuscularly, vaginally, or implanted underneath the skin, surgical methods (hysterectomy or bilateral tub l ligation), condoms, diaphragms, intrauterine device, or abstinence
  8. Male-Specific Criteria:

    1. Be willing to use an adequate birth control method during study participation and 12 weeks after the last vaccination.
    2. For non-vasectomized male participants with female partners of child- bearing potential this includes the use of condoms or abstinence and/or their partner's use of contraceptive medications delivered orally, intramuscularly, vaginally, or implanted underneath the skin, surgical methods (hysterectomy or bilateral tubal ligation), diaphragms, or intrauterine device.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Any symptom of acute illness (e.g., cough, sore throat), febrile illness (tympanic temperature >38°C) within 72 hours prior to the enrollment. A prospective participant should not be included until 72 hours after the condition has completely resolved.
  2. Participant with diarrhea, abdominal pain or vomiting in the past 24 hours or with history of diarrhea lasting for more than 2 weeks in the past 6 months.
  3. Known history of any condition, including immunodeficiency disease, renal function disorder, , chronic inflammatory disease, etc.
  4. Use of systemic within past 6 months (>10 mg/day prednisone equivalent for period exceeding 2 consecutive weeks), or history of having received chemotherapy, radiation therapy or other immunosuppressive drugs within the past 6 months.
  5. Participant who has ever received previous immunization with cholera vaccine, who has received any vaccine within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of study vaccination, or who plans to receive any other vaccine within 4 weeks following last dose of the product.
  6. Participant concomitantly enrolled or scheduled to be enrolled in another trial.
  7. Participant with previous history of confirmed cholera, salmonella, shigella or ETEC disease.
  8. Known history or allergy to vaccine components, or any other allergies deemed by the investigator to increase risk of an adverse event during trial participation.
  9. Individuals with a known bleeding disorder, or any condition that may be associated with a prolonged bleeding time resulting in for blood sample collection.
  10. Receipt of blood, blood-derived products, or immunoglobulin products in the past 3 months.
  11. Any abnormality or chronic disease which in the opinion of the investigator might be detrimental for the safety of the participant or interfere with the assessment of the study objectives.
  12. Any female participant who is lactating*, pregnant, or planning for pregnancy during study period.
  13. Individuals who are involved in DuoChol Clinical trial or family/household members of research staff.
  14. Any other condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, might interfere with the evaluation of the study objectives (e.g., alcohol or drug abuse, neurologic or psychiatric conditions etc.).
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(8)

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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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

Investigational drug or device

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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.

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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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
60 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    DuoChol

    2 doses of DuoChol capsule administered orally 14 days apart (Day 0 and Day 14).

    Biological: DuoChol

  • Active comparator
    Dukoral®

    2 doses of Dukoral® administered orally 14 days apart (Day 0 and Day 14). Vaccine suspension is mixed with the buffer (sodium hydrogen carbonate) solution, supplied as effervescent powder.

    Biological: Dukoral®

Interventions

  • BiologicalDuoChol

    A lyophilized formulation in capsule form (approximately 150mg) contains: - 0.9 mg in 1:1 ratio of formalin inactivated bacteria of two isogenic V. cholerae O1 El Tor strains: serotype Inaba (MS1955) and serotype Ogawa (MS1987) - 0.9 mg of recombinant cholera toxin B subunit (rCTB).

  • BiologicalDukoral®

    3 ml of suspension in a vial contains: * 31.25x10\^9 bacteria\* (approximately) of each of the following V. cholerae O1 strains: Inaba classical biotype (heat inactivated), Inaba El Tor biotype (formalin inactivated), Ogawa classical biotype (heat inactivated), Ogawa classical biotype (formalin inactivated) * 1 mg Recombinant cholera toxin B subunit (rCTB) 5.6 g of effervescent powder (buffer) in a sachet contains Sodium hydrogen carbonate, citric acid, sodium carbonate, saccharin sodium, sodium citrate and raspberry flavor.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Safety of each investigational product dose at a specified duration

    1. Occurrence of any SAEs from the first dose vaccination until 28 days after the second dose vaccination. 2. Occurrence of immediate adverse events within 2 hours after the first dose of vaccination for the sentinel cohort of participants, and within 1 hour for the rest of the participants 3. Occurrence of solicited gastrointestinal and systemic adverse events within 7 days after each vaccination 4. Occurrence of unsolicited adverse events within 14 days after each vaccination 5. Occurrence of clinically significant changes in safety laboratory parameters after each vaccination

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of study, approximately 6 weeks for each participant.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Proportion of participants achieving seroconversion of serum vibriocidal antibody titers against V. cholerae O1 Inaba and V. cholerae O1 Ogawa.

    seroconversion of serum vibriocidal antibody titers defined as at least 4-fold increase

    Time frame: Baseline (prior to first vaccination) to 14 days after the first and second vaccination.

  2. Geometric Mean Titer (GMT) of serum vibriocidal antibody titers against V. cholerae O1 Inaba and V. cholerae O1 Ogawa.

    Time frame: Baseline (prior to first vaccination) to 14 days after the first and second vaccination.

  3. Geometric Mean Fold Rise (GMFR) of serum vibriocidal antibody titers against V. cholerae O1 Inaba and V. cholerae O1 Ogawa.

    Time frame: Baseline (prior to first vaccination) to 14 days after the first and second vaccination.

  4. Proportion of participants achieving seroconversion of serum IgG anti-CTB antibodies.

    seroconversion of serum IgG anti-CTB antibodies defined as at least 2-fold increase

    Time frame: Baseline (prior to first vaccination) to 14 days after the first and second vaccination.

  5. Geometric Mean Titer (GMT) of serum IgG anti-CTB antibodies.

    Time frame: Baseline (prior to first vaccination) to 14 days after the first and second vaccination.

  6. Geometric Mean Fold Rise (GMFR) of serum IgG anti-CTB antibodies.

    Time frame: Baseline (prior to first vaccination) to 14 days after the first and second vaccination.

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — Restrictions under data protection frameworks (e.g., GDPR) that impose strict requirements on the use, transfer, and sharing of health-related data. The informed consent form does not cover participant agreement for data sharing beyond the purpose or jurisdiction described in the participant's information sheet.

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Jan 2027; primary completion for Jul 2027, 6 months later.

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

Registered
Nov 18, 2025
First posted
Dec 8, 2025
StartEst.
Jan 2027
Primary completionEst.
Jul 2027
CompletionEst.
Jul 2027
Last update
Apr 1, 2026
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 Apr 1, 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
NCT07270796
Lead sponsor
International Vaccine Institute
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 8, 2025
Start date
Jan 2027 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jul 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 1, 2026

Study contacts

Jessica Cowden, MD
Contact
jessica.cowden@ivi.int
+46732377579
Jessica Cowden, MD
principal investigator · International Vaccine Institute

Oversight

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