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
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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Inclusion Criteria
Exlusion Criteria
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
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.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
NYHA class (heart failure)
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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
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)
Intradermal vaccination with rBCG-N-RSV that expresses the N protein of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
Intradermal vaccination with conventional BCG (BCG-WT).
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
Occurrence, intensity and duration of unsolicited AEs during the 6-month follow-up.
Time frame: From vaccination through 180 days post-vaccination
Occurrence of AEs during the 6-month follow-up duration.
Time frame: From vaccination through 180 days post-vaccination
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
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
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
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
Presence and titers of serum IgG against RSV nucleoprotein via ELISA.
Time frame: Day 30 and day 180 post-vaccination
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
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
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
Plan to share: Undecided — It has not been decided where the results of the study will be published.
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