A Phase 1, Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled and Dose-Escalation Study to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of the Intranasal DelNS1-nCoV-RBD LAIV for COVID-19 in Healthy Adults

An intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, DelNS1-based RBD vaccines composed of H1N1 subtype (DelNS1-nCoV-RBD LAIV) was developed to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity in healthy adults. We conducted a phase 1 randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study on healthy participants, age 18-55 and COVID-19 vaccines naïve, between March and September 2021. Participants were enrolled and randomly assigned (2:2:1) into the low and high dose DelNS1-nCoV-RBD LAIV manufactured in chicken embryonated eggs or placebo groups. The low and high-dose vaccine were composed of 1 × 107 EID50/ dose and 1 × 107.7 EID50/ dose in 0.2 mL respectively. The placebo vaccine was composed of inert excipients/dose in 0.2 mL. Recruited participants were administered the vaccine intranasally on day 0 and day 28. The primary end-point was the safety of the vaccine. The secondary endpoints included cellular, humoral, and mucosal immune responses post-vaccination at pre-specified time-points. The cellular response was measured by the T-cell ELISpot assay. The humoral response was measured by the serum anti-RBD IgG and live-virus neutralizing antibody against SARS-CoV-2. The saliva total Ig antibody responses in mucosal secretion against SARS-CoV-2 RBD was also assessed. Twenty-nine healthy Chinese participants were vaccinated (low-dose: 11; high-dose: 12 and placebo: 6). The median age was 26 years. Twenty participants (69%) were male. No participant was discontinued due to an adverse event or COVID-19 infection during the clinical trial. There was no significant difference in the incidence of adverse events (p = 0.620). For the T-cell response elicited after full vaccination, the positive PBMC in the high-dose group increased to 12.5 SFU/106 PMBC (day 42) from 0 (baseline), while it increased to 5 SFU/106 PBMC (day 42) from 2.5 SFU/106 PBMC (baseline) in the placebo group. The high-dose group showed a slightly higher level of mucosal Ig than the control group after receiving two doses of the vaccine (day 31, 0.24 vs. 0.21, p = 0.046; day 56 0.31 vs. 0.15, p = 0.45). There was no difference in the T-cell and saliva Ig response between the low-dose and placebo groups. The serum anti-RBD IgG and live virus neutralizing antibody against SARS-CoV-2 were undetectable in all samples. The high-dose intranasal DelNS1-nCoV-RBD LAIV is safe with moderate mucosal immunogenicity. A phase-2 booster trial with a two-dose regimen of the high-dose intranasal DelNS1-nCoV-RBD LAIV is warranted.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Vaccines - 11(2023), 4 vom: 24. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Ruiqi [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Kwok-Hung [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Pui [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Runhong [VerfasserIn]
Yau, Henry Kwong-Chi [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Creany Ka-Wai [VerfasserIn]
Au, Meena Wai-Lam [VerfasserIn]
Tam, Anthony Raymond [VerfasserIn]
Ng, Chi-Tao [VerfasserIn]
Lou, Matthew Kwok-Chung [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Na [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Haode [VerfasserIn]
Deng, Shaofeng [VerfasserIn]
Tam, Rachel Chun-Yee [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Long, Teng [VerfasserIn]
Tsoi, Hoi-Wah [VerfasserIn]
Ng, Miko K W [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Jian-Piao [VerfasserIn]
To, Kelvin Kai-Wang [VerfasserIn]
Yuen, Man-Fung [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Zhiwei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Honglin [VerfasserIn]
Yuen, Kwok-Yung [VerfasserIn]
Hung, Ivan Fan-Ngai [VerfasserIn]

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COVID-19
DelNS1-nCoV-RBD LAIV
Intranasal
Journal Article
Phase-1

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Date Revised 30.04.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/vaccines11040723

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356162109