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Phase 3 N=449 Randomized Double-blind Treatment

A Trial to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of the Anti-Orthopoxvirus Compound Tecovirimat

Smallpox

Enrolled (actual)
449
Serious AEs
0.2%
Results posted
Nov 2017
Primary outcome: Primary: To Determine the Number of Participants With Adverse Events — 134; 30 Participants

Study Design & Population

Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Interventions
tecovirimat (Drug); Placebo (Other)
Age
Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
Sex
All
Sponsor
SIGA Technologies
Primary completion
Aug 2016

Outcome Measures

OutcomeResultp-value
PRIMARY
To Determine the Number of Participants With Adverse Events
134; 30

Summary

Multicenter, double-blind, placebo controlled, Phase 3 study to determine the safety and tolerability of oral tecovirimat, an anti orthopoxvirus compound, in subjects.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • 18 to 80 years old, inclusive
  • Available for clinical follow-up for the duration of the study
  • Able and willing to give informed consent
  • In good general health without clinically significant medical history; not have been hospitalized for a chronic medical condition for the last 2 years
  • Able to comply with dietary requirements throughout the study drug dosing period
  • Adequate venous access for those individuals participating in PK testing
  • PE and laboratory results without clinically significant findings within the 14 days before receipt of study drug
  • Agree not to drink alcohol from the beginning of the Screening Period through the completion of the Day 28 Follow up Visit
  • Agree not to use any nicotine products, including electronic vapor cigarettes, nicotine patches or nicotine gum for at least 30 days before the Day 1 Visit and through completion of the Day 15 Dosing complete Visit
  • Agree not to consume caffeine during all study visits, including overnight stays if participating in PK subset
  • Agree not to receive any immunizations/vaccinations
  • Agree not to take herbal products
  • Able and willing to refrain from taking any prescriptions and nonprescription medications with exceptions
  • For women of childbearing potential, negative serum and urine pregnancy testing
  • If male, agree not to donate sperm
  • Meet 1 of the following criteria: The subject or their partner has undergone surgical sterilization; the subject is postmenopausal; the subject agrees to be abstinent; the subject agrees to consistently use a method of approved birth control.

Exclusion Criteria

  • Pregnant or breast-feeding or planning pregnancy
  • Have a history of any clinically significant conditions
  • Have any limitation of activity related to cardiac disease
  • Have a bleeding disorder diagnosed by a doctor, or a history of significant bruising or bleeding with intramuscular injections or blood draws
  • Currently using certain medications
  • Have a malignancy that is active or a treated malignancy for which there is no reasonable assurance of sustained cure, or malignancy that is likely to recur during the study
  • Have a history of seizure
  • Have a clinically significant blood dyscrasia
  • Have a history of drug allergy that contraindicates participation in the trial
  • Have a medical, psychiatric, or social condition or any occupational reason, or other responsibility that in the judgment of the investigator would render the subject unable to comply with the protocol
  • Have an inability to swallow medication
  • Have a clinically significant abnormal ECG
  • Have participated in a clinical trials within 30 days of study entry or planning to participate in any experimental treatment study during the study period
  • Have a history or current drug or alcohol abuse
  • Have received immunizations/vaccines
  • Have a current clinically significant acute bacterial, fungal, or mycobacterial infection requiring administration of systemic antibiotics
  • Have known chronic bacterial, mycobacterial, fungal, parasitic, or protozoal infection with the exception of clinically significant dermal infections
  • Have known hepatitis B or C infection, or positive test result
  • Have known HIV infection or AIDS or a positive test for HIV
  • Have a current clinically significant viral infection
  • Have known clinically significant chronic viral infection
  • have received treatment with greater than 20 mg prednisone or equivalent dose or any immunosuppressant or immunomodulary medication
  • Have abnormal laboratory testing during screening
  • Have a greater than or equal than 20% risk of suffering a major cardiovascular event
  • Have been previously enrolled in this or any clinical trial involving tecovirimat
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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02474589). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.

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