Oxford says its candidate has great immune reaction with two dose regime

Oxford says its candidate has great immune reaction with two dose regime

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  • Post By : Kumar Jeetendra

  • Source: Reuters

  • Date: 18 Dec,2020

The vaccine candidate, which has been licensed to AstraZeneca, has published interim late stage trial results showing higher efficacy when a half dose is followed by a complete dose, in contrast to a two full-dose regime, though more work needs to be done to affirm the outcome.

The details from the Phase I/II clinical trials released on December 17 made no reference to the half-dose/full-dose regime, which Oxford has said had been”unplanned” but accepted by regulators.

The university said it had explored two dosing regimes in early stage trials, a full-dose/full-dose regime and a full-dose/half-dose regime, investigated as a possible”dose sparing” strategy.

“The booster doses of the vaccine are both shown to induce stronger antibody responses than one dose, the conventional dose/standard dose inducing the ideal response,” the university said in a statement.

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