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Study aim
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to determine the immunogenicity and safety of COVID-19 recombinant receptor binding domain (RBD) protein vaccine in healthy population
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Design
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Clinical trial with control group with parallel groups, double-blind, randomized, phase two on 300 volunteers
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Settings and conduct
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This double-blind study (volunteers and outcome assessors) with placebo will be performed on 300 healthy volunteers at Baqiyatallah Hospital in Tehran, Shahid Soleimani Clinical Trial Center . Candidates received a random dose of 80 micrograms of vaccine or placebo, received the vaccine on days 0, 21 and 35, and were followed up until day 49 for side effects, humoral and cellular immunity. All people will be followed up for a long time after the end of the study until day 360.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Healthy 18-40 years, the ability to understand the study, signing the informed consent, not being pregnant, Main exclusion criteria: Positive PCR test, symptoms consistent with COVID-19, history of COVID-19 disease in the last month, abnormal paraclinical findings, history of allergy to the vaccine, neurologic disease, immunodeficiency, coagulopathy, psychiatric and other chronic diseases, Receiving live vaccine in one month or other vaccines in 14 days before inoculation
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Intervention groups
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Participants are randomly assigned to the following groups:
1- Receiving the recombinant vaccine (80 micrograms) intramuscularly (deltoid muscle) on days 0, 21 and 35 (240 people)
2- Receiving placebo (buffer + adjuvant) intramuscularly (deltoid muscle) on days 0, 21 and 35 (60 people)
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Main outcome variables
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The titer of antibody (RBD), the occurrence of SARS-COV-2 infection, measurement of cellular immunity. occurrence of any side effects after injection, during 7, 125 days, and a year.