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Safety and Immunogenicity Study of IP-QSV Vaccine in Healthy Adults/Adolescents, Children and Infants

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of 30μg IP-QSV and Placebo in Shigella Infection, sponsored by International Vaccine Institute. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 6 Months to 45 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-24.

Sponsored by International Vaccine Institute · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
370
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
6 Months to 45 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The goal of this phase 1/2a, randomized, observer-blind, age-descending, dose-finding trial is to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of a quadrivalent synthetic oligosaccharide-based Shigella vaccine (adjuvanted IP-QSV) in adults, children, and infants in Mali. This first-in-human study is intended to obtain initial data on the safety of the adjuvanted IP-QSV vaccine and its effect on immune responses in a Shigella-endemic region.

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this is phase 1/2a, randomized, observer-blind, age-descending, dose-finding trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of a quadrivalent synthetic oligosaccharide-based Shigella vaccine (adjuvanted IP-QSV) in adults, children, and infants in Mali

A total of 370 healthy participants aged 6 months to 45 years in Mali will be enrolled and randomly assigned in a 2:1 or 2:2:1 ratio. The study groups are as follow

  • Group A (18-45 years): one dose of 30 µg IP / placebo in a 2:1 ratio
  • Group B (2-5 years): two doses of 10 µg IP / placebo administered 3 months apart in a 2:1 ratio
  • Group C (2-5 years): one dose of 30 µg IP / placebo in a 2:1 ratio
  • Group D (6-8 months): three doses of 2 µg IP / placebo administered at 3- and 6-month intervals in a 2:1 ratio
  • Group E (6-8 months): three doses of 10 µg IP or placebo administered at 3- and 6-month intervals in a 2:2:1 ratio
  • Group F (9-11 months): two doses of 10 µg IP / placebo administered 6 months apart in a 2:1 ratio
  • Group G (6-8 months): two doses of 30 µg IP or placebo administered 9 months apart in a 2:1 ratio.

The DSMB must review the safety data of each group and approve study continuation before investigational product administration of the next group is initiated.

Participants will attend between 5 and 11 scheduled study visits, including blood sampling for immunogenicity assessments and safety evaluations. Blood samples will be collected at screening and at multiple time points throughout the study to assess immune responses and overall health status. Baseline laboratory assessments will include HIV testing, hepatitis screening, complete blood counts, and renal and liver function tests. Women of childbearing potential will undergo pregnancy testing at screening.

Serious adverse events (SAEs) will be reported and followed until resolution or stabilization. Participants will be instructed to contact the study team immediately if they experience any serious adverse event.

The study will monitor for SAEs, including hospitalization, death, or significant disability, occurring during the study, regardless of whether they are considered related to the study vaccine. Immediate reactions occurring within 0.5 - 1 hours after vaccination will be monitored to detect allergic or other acute responses. Solicited mild to moderate adverse events, such as nausea, fever, and diarrhea, will be recorded for up to 7 days after each vaccination.

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Conditions studied

  • Shigella Infection

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Keywords

  • Shigella vaccine
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In context

Dysentery, Bacillary

61 studies on the registry are indexed under Dysentery, Bacillary; 6 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 370 is above the median of 76 across 54 interventional studies indexed under Dysentery, Bacillary.

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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.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
6 Months to 45 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Individuals aged 18-45 years in Group A, 2-5 years in Groups B and C, 6-8 months in Groups D, E and G , and 9-11 months in Group F
  • Participants/ Participants' Legally Acceptable representative (LAR) willing to provide written to participate in the study voluntarily
  • Participants who can comply with the study requirements
  • Individuals in good health as determined by the outcome of medical history, physical examination, and the clinical judgment of the investigator

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Known history or allergy to vaccine components or other medications, or any other allergies deemed by the investigator to increase the risk of an adverse event if they were to participate in the trial
  • Individuals with major congenital abnormalities, developmental disorders, genetic defects, or severe malnutrition, among other conditions which in the opinion of investigator may affect the participant's participation in the study
  • Known history of immune function disorders including immunodeficiency diseases (known infection¥ or other immune function disorders) which in the opinion of investigator may affect the participant's participation in the study or interfere with the assessment of the study objectives
  • Use of systemic within past 6 months (>10 mg/day prednisone equivalent for periods exceeding 2 consecutive weeks), or receive chemotherapy, radiation therapy or other drugs within the past 6 months
  • Any abnormality or chronic disease which in the opinion of the investigator might be detrimental for the safety of the participant and interfere with the assessment of the study objectives
  • Individuals with behavioral or cognitive impairment or psychiatric disease or neural disorders that, in the opinion of the investigator, could interfere with the participant's ability to participate in the trial
  • Individuals with splenectomy
  • Individuals with a known bleeding diathesis, or any condition that may be associated with a prolonged bleeding time resulting in for IM injections/blood extractions
  • Receipt of blood, blood-derived products, or immunoglobulin products in the past 3 months
  • Individuals who have received other vaccines from 4 weeks prior to the first dose of investigational product administration or planned to receive any vaccine within 4 weeks post any dose of the investigational product
  • Individuals with active or known previous culture-proven Shigella infection
  • Individuals who have household contact with/and /or intimate exposure to an individual with laboratory confirmed Shigella infection
  • Previous participation in any study in which a Shigella-vaccine candidate was administered
  • Individuals with a history of severe diarrhea in the last 6 months requiring care at a medical facility lasting 24 hours or more
  • Individuals with a history of gastrointestinal disorders or with any history of frequent diarrhea, nausea or emesis, within the last 6 months
  • Individuals aged below 5 years with Weight for Height Z score and/or Height for Age Z score of less than -3
  • Any female participant who is lactating or pregnant#
  • Females of who do not agree to use an effective method* for at least 4 weeks before the screening and up to 12 weeks after the investigational product administration
  • Individuals enrolled in another clinical trial within 6 months prior to enrollment, concomitantly enrolled or scheduled to be enrolled in another trial during study period
  • Individuals who are research staff involved with the clinical trial or household members of research staff
  • As per Investigator's medical judgement, an individual could be excluded from the study despite meeting all inclusion/exclusion criteria mentioned above
  • Special Conditions for Children Aged 24 Months and Below: For such children, additional exclusion criteria include difficult birth, resuscitation after suffocation, a history of neurological damage, premature birth (delivery before the 37th week of gestation), and low birth weight (less than 2500 grams)
  • Clinically significant abnormal findings in blood tests during the screening
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(9)

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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.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

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Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
370 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Group A

    A total of 30 participants aged 18-45 years will receive one dose of 30 µg IP-QSV or placebo.

    Biological: 30μg IP-QSV · Other: Placebo

  • Experimental
    Group B

    A total of 30 participants aged 2-5 years will receive two doses of 10 µg IP-QSV or placebo at 3 months interval.

    Other: Placebo · Biological: 10μg IP-QSV

  • Experimental
    Group C

    A total of 30 participants aged 2-5 years will receive one dose of 30 µg IP-QSV or placebo

    Biological: 30μg IP-QSV · Other: Placebo

  • Placebo comparator
    Group D

    A total of 60 participants aged 6-8 months will receive three doses of 2 µg IP-QSV or placebo at Months 0, 3, and 9.

    Other: Placebo · Biological: 2μg IP-QSV

  • Experimental
    Group E

    A total of 100 participants aged 6-8 months will receive three doses of 10 µg IP-QSV or placebo at Months 0, 3, and 9.

    Other: Placebo · Biological: 10μg IP-QSV

  • Experimental
    Group F

    A total of 60 participants aged 9-11 months will receive two doses of 10 µg IP-QSV or placebo at 6 months interval

    Other: Placebo · Biological: 10μg IP-QSV

  • Experimental
    Group G

    A total of 60 participants aged 6-8 months will receive two doses of 30 µg IP-QSV or placebo at 9 months interval

    Biological: 30μg IP-QSV · Other: Placebo

Interventions

  • Biological30μg IP-QSV

    A mix of the four synthetic OS-based conjugates, each independently targeting SF 2a, 3a, 6, or Sson, and using tetanus toxoid as carrier protein. 30 ㎍ of IP-QSV adjuvanted with Aluminum phosphate.

  • OtherPlacebo

    Sterile 0.9% sodium chloride.

  • Biological10μg IP-QSV

    A mix of the four synthetic OS-based conjugates, each independently targeting SF 2a, 3a, 6, or Sson, and using tetanus toxoid as carrier protein. 30 ㎍ of IP-QSV adjuvanted with Aluminum phosphate.

  • Biological2μg IP-QSV

    A mix of the four synthetic OS-based conjugates, each independently targeting SF 2a, 3a, 6, or Sson, and using tetanus toxoid as carrier protein. 30 ㎍ of IP-QSV adjuvanted with Aluminum phosphate.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Serious adverse events (SAEs) and adverse events of special interest (AESIs) and medically attended adverse event (MAAE)

    Occurrence of any SAE / AESI / MAAE from the first dose vaccination throughout the final study visit

    Time frame: through study completion, an average of 6 months

  2. Immediate adverse events

    Occurrence of immediate adverse events within 30 minutes after each dose vaccination

    Time frame: Within 30 minutes post each dose

  3. Solicited adverse events

    Occurrence of solicited injection site and solicited systemic adverse events from the time of each study vaccination through 7 days after each study vaccination

    Time frame: Within 7 days post each dose

  4. Unsolicited adverse events

    Occurrence of unsolicited adverse events from the time of each study vaccination through 28 days after each study vaccination.

    Time frame: Within 28 days post each dose

  5. GMT of serum IgG against SF 2a, SF3a, SF6 & Sson LPS at 4 weeks and at 6 months post primary IP administration of IP-QSV 2/10/30μg OS-equivalent dosages in infants aged 6-8 months

    GMT of serum IgG antibodies to SF2a, SF3a, SF6 \& Sson LPSs (for each one of the four serotypes and combined serotypes (SF all)), after 2-dose primary series (0-3-month) of 2μg of IP-QSV / placebo, or 2-dose primary series (0-3-month) of 10μg of IP-QSV / placebo, or Single primary dose of 30μg of IP-QSV / placebo

    Time frame: Baseline, at 4 weeks, and at 6 months post primary IP administration series

  6. Seroconversion of serum IgG against SF 2a, SF3a, SF6 & Sson LPS at 4 weeks and at 6 months post primary IP administration of IP-QSV 2/10/30μg OS-equivalent dosages in infants aged 6-8 months

    Percentage of seroconversion (defined as at least a 4-fold increase in anti-LPS IgG titer from baseline) for each one of the four serotypes and combined serotypes (SF2a, SF3a, SF6, Sson LPSs, SF all), after 2-dose primary series (0-3-month) of 2μg of IP-QSV / placebo or 2-dose primary series (0-3-month) of 10μg of IP-QSV / placebo or Single primary dose of 30μg of IP-QSV / placebo

    Time frame: at 4 weeks and at 6 months post primary IP administration series

Secondary outcomes

  1. GMT of serum IgG against SF 2a, SF3a, SF6 & Sson LPS at 4 weeks and at 6 months post full IP administration of IP-QSV 2/10/30μg OS-equivalent dosages in infants aged 6-8 months

    GMT of serum IgG antibodies to SF2a, SF3a, SF6 \& Sson LPSs, (for each one of the four serotypes and combined serotypes (SF all)), after 3 doses(0-3-9-month) of 2μg IP-QSV / placebo, or 3 doses ( 0-3-9-month) of 10μg IP-QSV / placebo, or 2 doses ( 0-9-month) of 30μg IP-QSV / placebo

    Time frame: Baseline, at 4 weeks, and at 6 months post full IP administration series

  2. Seroconversion of serum IgG against SF 2a, SF3a, SF6 & Sson LPS at 4 weeks and at 6 months post full IP administration of IP-QSV 2/10/30μg OS-equivalent dosages in infants aged 6-8 months

    Percentage of seroconversion (defined as at least a 4-fold increase in anti-LPS IgG titer from baseline) for each one of the four serotypes (SF2a, SF3a, SF6 \& Sson LPSs, and combined serotypes (SF, all)), after 3 doses ( 0-3-9-month) of 2μg IP-QSV / placebo, or 3 doses ( 0-3-9-month)of 10μg IP-QSV / placebo, or 2 doses ( 0-9-month) of 30μg IP-QSV / placebo

    Time frame: Baseline, at 4 weeks, and at 6 months post full IP administration series

  3. GMT of serum IgG against SF 2a, SF3a, SF6 & Sson LPS at 4 weeks post each dose of full IP administration series and at 6 months post full IP administration of IP-QSV 10μg OS-equivalent dosages in infants aged 9-11 month

    GMT of serum IgG antibodies to SF2a, SF3a, SF6 \& Sson LPSs(for each one of the four serotypes and combined serotypes (SF, all)), at 4 weeks after 1 and 2 doses ( 0-6-month) of 10μg of IP-QSV / placebo

    Time frame: Baseline and at post each dose of full IP administration series

  4. Seroconversion of serum IgG against SF 2a, SF3a, SF6 & Sson LPS at 4 weeks post each dose of full IP administration series and at 6 months post full IP administration of IP-QSV 10μg OS-equivalent dosages in infants aged 9-11 months

    Percentage of Seroconversion (defined as at least a 4-fold increase in anti-LPS IgG titer from baseline) for each one of the four serotypes (SF2a, SF3a, SF6 \& Sson LPSs, and combined serotypes (SF, all)) at 4 weeks after 1 and 2 doses in 0-6-month dose schedule of 10μg IP-QSV / placebo

    Time frame: at post each dose of full IP administration series

  5. GMT of SF2a, SF3a, SF6 & Sson -specific serum bactericidal antibodies (SBA) at 4 weeks and at 6 months post primary IP and full IP administration of IP-QSV 2/10/30μg OS-equivalent dosages in infants aged 6-11 months

    GMT of SBA to SF2a, SF3a, SF6 \& Sson, independently for each one of the four serotypes and combined serotypes (SF, all), after 2-dose primary series (0-3-month) of 2/10μg of IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 6-8 months, or Single primary dose of 30μg of IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 6-8 months, or 3 doses in 0-3-9-month dose schedule of 2/10μg IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 6-8 months, or Single primary dose of 10μg of IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 9-11 months, or 2 doses in 0-6-month dose schedule of 10μg IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 9-11 months, or 2 doses in 0-9-month dose schedule of 30μg IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 6-8 months

    Time frame: Baseline, at 4 weeks and at 6 months post primary and full IP administration series

  6. Seroconversion of SF2a, SF3a, SF6 & Sson -specific serum bactericidal antibodies (SBA) at 4 weeks and at 6 months post primary IP and full IP administration of IP-QSV 2/10/30μg OS-equivalent dosages in infants aged 6-11 months

    Percentage of seroconversion of SBA to SF2a, SF3a, SF6 \& Sson, independently for each one of the four serotypes and combined serotypes (SF, all), after 2-dose primary series (0-3-month) of 2/10μg of IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 6-8 months, or Single primary dose of 30μg of IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 6-8 months, or 3 doses in 0-3-9-month dose schedule of 2/10μg IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 6-8 months, or Single primary dose of 10μg of IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 9-11 months, or 2 doses in 0-6-month dose schedule of 10μg IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 9-11 months, or 2 doses in 0-9-month dose schedule of 30μg IP-QSV / placebo in infants aged 6-8 months

    Time frame: at 4 weeks and at 6 months post primary and full IP administration series

  7. GMT of serum IgG against SF2a, SF3a, SF6 & Sson LPS at 4 weeks post each dose of full IP administration series of IP-QSV 10/30μg OS-equivalent dosages in adults aged 18-45 years and children aged 2-5 years

    GMT of serum IgG antibodies to SF2a, SF3a, SF6 \& Sson, and percentage of seroconversion, after 1 dose of 30μg in adults aged 18-45 years and in children aged 2-5 years or after each dose of 10μg in 0-3mo dose schedule in children aged 2-5 years

    Time frame: Baseline and at 4 weeks post each dose of full IP administration series

  8. Seroconversion of serum IgG against SF2a, SF3a, SF6 & Sson LPS at 4 weeks post each dose of full IP administration of IP-QSV 10/30μg OS-equivalent dosages in adults aged 18-45 years and children aged 2-5 years

    Percentage of seroconversion of serum IgG antibodies to SF2a, SF3a, SF6 \& Sson, after 1 dose of 30μg in adults aged 18-45 years and in children aged 2-5 years or after each dose of 10μg in 0-3mo dose schedule in children aged 2-5 years

    Time frame: at 4 weeks post each dose of full IP administration series

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Study locations

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References and documents

Individual participant data

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07666750
Lead sponsor
International Vaccine Institute
Collaborators
Institut Pasteur
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 24, 2026
Start date
Jul 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Aug 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Nov 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 24, 2026

Study contacts

Tarun Saluja, MD
Contact
tarun.saluja@ivi.int
+82 2 8811 236
Samba Sow, MD
principal investigator · CVD-Mali

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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