Phase 3
N=449
A Trial to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of the Anti-Orthopoxvirus Compound Tecovirimat
Smallpox
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02474589 ↗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
| Outcome | Result | p-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
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.