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RecruitingNCT07762014Updated Sep 15, 2026

rBCG-N-RSV Vaccine in Adults Aged 60 Years and Older

A Phase 2 interventional study of Vaccination with rBCG-N-RSV and Vaccination with conventional BCG (BCG-WT) in Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection Prevention and Tuberculosis Prevention, sponsored by Biothervax SpA. Recruiting at 1 site in Greece. Open to participants aged 60 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-15.

Sponsored by Biothervax SpA · Phase 2, Interventional, and Prevention

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Sep 2026; still recruiting 1 month later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
200
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
60 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This Phase 2 clinical study will evaluate the safety of the rBCG-N-RSV vaccine compared to conventional BCG in adults older than 60 years. It will also compare the cellular anti-mycobacterial immune response of both vaccines in adults older than 60 years and characterize the cellular immune response against RSV nucleoprotein (N) generated by the rBCG-N-RSV vaccine in adults older than 60 years as compared to the response induced by the conventional BCG.

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Conditions studied

  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection Prevention
  • Tuberculosis Prevention

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Keywords

  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus
  • RSV
  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccine
  • Vaccine
  • Tuberculosis
  • TB
  • Tuberculosis vaccine
  • BCG
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In context

Tuberculosis

1,170 studies on the registry are indexed under Tuberculosis; 175 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 200 is above the median of 150 across 820 interventional studies indexed under Tuberculosis.

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Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with Biothervax SpA as lead sponsor.

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

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Who can participate

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

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  1. Has completed the written process.
  2. Males or females, over 60 years of age as of the date of signature of the informed consent form.
  3. Has a stable state of health or controlled (health parameters within the normal range for their disease) chronic diseases that do not fall within the exclusion criteria.
  4. Willingness to comply with study procedures.
  5. No plans to move to another city in the next 6 months and willing to be contacted by the research team within the study period.
  6. Not participate in another research study in the previous 3 months, nor plans to participate in another research study in the next 6 months.
  7. Agrees to avoid elective surgery during the study.
  8. Willingness to receive test results.
  9. Not having received a BCG vaccination within the last 10 years before study vaccination.

Exlusion Criteria

  1. Oral temperature ≥37.5°C, axillary ≥37.5°C or tympanic temperature ≥38.0°C in the last 24 hours.
  2. Weight less than 50 kg, as well as less than 18.5 or higher than 35 kg/m2.
  3. History of treatment or current history of active or latent tuberculosis infection.
  4. History of unprotected occupational exposure to an individual with active tuberculosis in a healthcare setting within the past 6 months.
  5. drugs used within the previous 42 days (inhaled and topical are allowed).
  6. Received documented tuberculosis vaccine at any time.
  7. Unstable hormonal status, i.e. subjects with any change (dose, formulation, or route) in hormone replacement therapies (including levothyroxine, insulin, estrogen, progesterone etc.) in the last 12 weeks.
  8. History or laboratory evidence of any possible past, present, or future immunodeficiency status, including, but not limited to, any laboratory indication of HIV-1 infection.
  9. Allergy to BCG vaccine or its components, as well as the existence of for BCG administration as described in the BCG prescribing information.
  10. Previous medical history that may compromise the safety of the study participant, including but not limited to significant impairment of lung function (such as pulmonary diffusion of carbon dioxide \<80% or ≤80%) due to tuberculosis infection or other pulmonary disease; chronic heart disease with signs of heart failure ( Class II Heart Failure or more) or coronary heart disease, suspicion of progressive neurological disease; uncontrolled epilepsy, liver disease.
  11. Administration of attenuated vaccines within 30 days before the start of the study or 14 days for inactivated ones.
  12. Having received transfusions or blood products within the 6 months before the start of the study.
  13. Uncontrolled hypertension or systolic blood pressure greater than 160 mmHg at the beginning of the study or diastolic greater than 90 mmHg.
  14. Active neoplasia.
  15. Stage 2 or higher .
  16. Chronic bronchial asthma with systemic corticosteroids, or with a history of having presented crises that have led to an emergency consultation within the last 2 months.
  17. Renal disease with estimated or relative ≤ 70 ml/min x 1.73 m2.
  18. Evidence of a new acute illness that may compromise the safety of the study participant, such as fever (oral or axillary temperature greater than or equal to 37.5°C) or suspicion of active infection.
  19. History or laboratory evidence of chronic viral hepatitis.
  20. History of alcohol or drug abuse in the last 2 years.
  21. Smoking more than 30 cigarettes a day, or cannabis use three or more days a week.
  22. History of keloid formation.
  23. Congenital diseases of importance, such that they weaken the basal condition of the volunteer.
  24. Congenital or acquired absence of the spleen.
  25. Coagulation disorders or known thrombocytopenia of less than 100,000 /mm3.
  26. Having undergone chemotherapy treatment in the last 6 months.
  27. Generalized urticaria in the last 2 months.
  28. History of hereditary or acquired angioneurotic edema.
  29. Any previous medical condition that the investigator considers may compromise the safety of the subject in the study.
  30. Not being available for all study visits (both face-to-face and by telephone) and specific instructions as appropriate (fasting, abstaining from intense physical exercise during the 24 hours before the study visits and during the 72 hours after vaccination).
  31. Pregnant women or women of (WOCBP) who are unable or unwilling to utilize appropriate methods of during the study.
  32. Breast-feeding women.
  33. Male with heterosexual sexual activity with WOCBP who do not agree to use adequate contraception.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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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.

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.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

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.

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

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.

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.

FEV1

From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

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 2
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
200 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    rBCG-N-RSV vaccine

    rBCG-N-RSV is a live-attenuated vaccine of Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) modified to heterologously and constitutively express the RSV nucleoprotein (N). The clinical formulation with this bacterium has been produced under strict quality and safety standards using current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) in the United States of America (USA). Pharmaceutical form: Lyophilisate for solution for injection Medicinal product characteristics: Immunological Route of administration: Intradermal use Maximum duration of treatment: 1 Day Maximum daily dose allowed: 0.1 Daily dose unit of measure: CFU/ml colony forming unit(s)/millilitre Maximum total dose allowed: 0.1 Total dose unit of measure: CFU/ml colony forming unit(s)/millilitre

    Biological: Vaccination with rBCG-N-RSV

  • Active comparator
    Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)

    BCG is a cryo-lyophilized vaccine of an attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis BCG, used for active immunization against tuberculosis. It is currently administered in numerous countries worldwide according to national immunization plans. Medicinal product characteristics: Immunological Route of administration: Intradermal use Maximum duration of treatment: 1 Day Maximum daily dose allowed: 0.1 Daily dose unit of measure: CFU/ml colony forming unit(s)/millilitre Maximum total dose allowed: 0.1 Total dose unit of measure: CFU/ml colony forming unit(s)/millilitre

    Biological: Vaccination with conventional BCG (BCG-WT)

Interventions

  • BiologicalVaccination with rBCG-N-RSV

    Intradermal vaccination with rBCG-N-RSV that expresses the N protein of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

  • BiologicalVaccination with conventional BCG (BCG-WT)

    Intradermal vaccination with conventional BCG (BCG-WT).

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Occurrence, intensity, and duration of the local solicited AEs (evolution of the "flare-up") until the generation of the scar

    Time frame: From vaccination through 180 days post-vaccination

  2. Occurrence, intensity and duration of unsolicited AEs during the 6-month follow-up.

    Time frame: From vaccination through 180 days post-vaccination

  3. Occurrence of AEs during the 6-month follow-up duration.

    Time frame: From vaccination through 180 days post-vaccination

  4. Alterations to the hemogram and/or biochemical profile at 30- and 180- days post vaccination compared to pre-vaccination profile

    Time frame: Day 30 and day 180 post-vaccination

  5. Production of IFN-γ and IL-2 by T cells upon exposure to purified protein derivative (PPD) mycobacterial antigen via ELISPOT 7 days prior vaccination and 30- and 180-days post vaccination.

    Time frame: Day 30 and day 180 post-vaccination

  6. Production of IFN-γ and IL-2 by T cells upon exposure to recombinant RSV nucleoprotein antigen via ELISPOT 7 days prior vaccination and 30- and 180-days post vaccination

    Time frame: Day 30 and day 180 post-vaccination

Secondary outcomes

  1. Presence and titers of serum IgG antibodies against Purified Protein Derived Mycobacterial antigen (PPD) via ELISA

    Time frame: Day 30 and day 180 post-vaccination

  2. Presence and titers of serum IgG against RSV nucleoprotein via ELISA.

    Time frame: Day 30 and day 180 post-vaccination

Other outcomes

  1. Cases of symptomatic RSV infection confirmed by RT-qPCR detection in respiratory specimens from 14 days to 6 months after vaccination.

    Time frame: From day 14 to 6 months post-vaccination

  2. Cases of hospitalization/intensive care unit admission and/or death in participants with RSV infection confirmed by RT-qPCR in vaccinated subjects from 14 days to 6 months postvaccination

    Time frame: From day 14 to 6 months post-vaccination

  3. Increase in the percentage of specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells that express AIM and memory markers via flow cytometry in the peripheral blood of a subgroup of participants that receive the control and the study vaccine.

    Time frame: Day 30 and day 180 post-vaccination

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided — It has not been decided where the results of the study will be published.

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 15, 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
NCT07762014
Lead sponsor
Biothervax SpA
Collaborators
Pharmassist Ltd, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Sotiria Thoracic Diseases Hospital of Athens
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 13, 2026
Start date
Sep 14, 2026
Primary completion
Sep 7, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 15, 2026

Study contacts

Maria Moukouli
Contact
m.moukouli@pharmassist-cro.com
+30 210 6560700
Maria Kiriakaki
Contact
m.kiriakaki@pharmassist-cro.com
+30 210 6560700

Oversight

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