Phase I study of a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine PTX-COVID19-B
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT PTX-COVID19-B mRNA vaccine encodes for SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein G614 variant and lacks the proline-proline (986-987 position) mutation present in other COVID-19 vaccines. This Phase 1 observer-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled, ascending dose study evaluated the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of two doses of PTX-COVID19-B vaccine in healthy seronegative adults. Participants received two intramuscular doses, 4 weeks apart, of 16-μg, 40-μg, or 100-μg PTX-COVID19-B. Adverse events were generally mild to moderate, self-resolving, and transient. The most common solicited local and systemic adverse event was pain at the injection site and headache, respectively. After the first immunization, all participants seroconverted, producing high titers of anti-receptor-binding-domain, anti-Spike, and neutralizing antibodies, including neutralizing antibodies against the ancestral viral strain and the Alpha, Beta, and Delta variants of concern, in a dose-dependent way, further increasing over 10-20 times after the second dose. All tested doses of PTX-COVID19-B were safe, well-tolerated, and provided a strong immunogenicity response. The 40-μg dose showed fewer adverse reactions than the 100-μg dose, supporting further investigation of the 40-μg dose. Clinical Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT04765436 ( https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04765436 )
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".