Efficacy and Safety of Ivermectin and Doxycycline in Combination or IVE Alone in Patients With COVID-19 Infection.
Ivermectin and Doxycycline in Combination or Ivermectin Alone for the Treatment of Adult Bangladeshi Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19: a Randomised, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial.
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Brief Summary
Burden: Initial outbreak of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported from Wuhan, China in early December 2019.Presently known to be caused by a novel beta-corona virus, named as Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2). World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic on March. The clinical characteristics of COVID-19 include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, dyspnoea and pneumonia Infected individuals exhibit:
- 1.Mostly mild illness (80% +) recover without any treatment (\~80%)
- 2.Moderate illness that needs hospitalization and recovers after standard
- 3.supportive treatment (\~14%)
- 4.Critical illness (\~5%) needs ICU support
- 5.Death (1-2% )
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for phase_2
Started Jun 2020
Shorter than P25 for phase_2
1 active site
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
May 17, 2020
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
May 29, 2020
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
June 16, 2020
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
October 30, 2020
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
November 20, 2020
CompletedFebruary 4, 2021
June 1, 2020
5 months
May 17, 2020
February 1, 2021
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (3)
Virological clearance
• Presence of virus will be negative on Day 7 detected by RT PCR
within 7 days after enrollment
Remission of fever
• Body temperature will be \< 37.5 C by day 7 detected by Infrared thermometer
within 7 days after enrollment
Remission of cough
• Remission of cough: No signs of cough showing respiratory rate within 12-20/ min, on day7
within 7 days after enrollment
Secondary Outcomes (5)
Patients requiring oxygen
within 7 days after enrollment
Patients failing to maintain SpO2 >93% despite oxygenation
within 7 days after enrollment
Number of days on oxygen support
within 7 days after enrollment
Duration of hospitalization
within 14 days after enrollment
All causes of mortality
within 14 days after enrollment
Study Arms (3)
Tab Ivermectin +Cap Doxycycline
ACTIVE COMPARATOR200 mcg/kg (12 mg tablet) ivermectin (IVERA) single dose and 200 mg stat doxycycline day-1 followed by 100mg doxycycline 12hrly for 4 day (i.e. day2-day5) \+ Placebo one tablet D2-5
Tab Ivermectin
ACTIVE COMPARATORIvermectin - 200 mcg/kg (12 mg tablet) once per day D1-D5 \+ Placebo two tablets D1 followed by Placebo one tablet D2-5
Placebo
PLACEBO COMPARATORDrug: Placebo 3 Placebo tablets D1 followed by 2 tablets D2-5
Interventions
Arm I: 200 mcg/kg (12 mg tablet) ivermectin (IVERA) single dose and 200 mg stat doxycycline day-1 followed by 100mg doxycycline 12hrly for 4 day (i.e. day2-day5) Placebo one tablet D2-5
Arm II: Ivermectin - 200 mcg/kg (12 mg tablet) once per day D1-D5 + Placebo two tablets D1 followed by Placebo one tablet D2-5
Arm III: 3 Placebo tablets D1 followed by 2 tablets D2-5
Eligibility Criteria
You may not qualify if:
- Allergy to ivermectin or doxycycline; or other contraindications to any of the study medications
- History of chronic heart disease (IHD, heart failure, documented cardiomyopathy etc)
- History of chronic liver disease (SGPT value more than 3 times of normal value)
- History of chronic kidney disease (S. Creatinine for male \>1.3 mg/dL or \>115 µmol/L and for female \>1.2 mg/dL or \>106.1 µmol/L)
- Pregnant or lactating women
- Participated in any other clinical trial within last 4 weeks
- H/o received Ivermectin/Doxycycline within last 7 days
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Icddr,B
Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh
MeSH Terms
Interventions
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Wasif Ali Khan, MBBS, MHS
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- phase 2
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- DOUBLE
- Who Masked
- PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
May 17, 2020
First Posted
May 29, 2020
Study Start
June 16, 2020
Primary Completion
October 30, 2020
Study Completion
November 20, 2020
Last Updated
February 4, 2021
Record last verified: 2020-06
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will not share