An oral norovirus vaccine generates mucosal immunity and reduces viral shedding in a phase 2 placebo-controlled challenge study flitter2025oral

Phase 2b randomized, placebo-controlled vaccination and human challenge study of an oral tablet norovirus vaccine (VXA-G1.1-NN) assessing immunogenicity and efficacy against norovirus GI.1 challenge, including quantification of viral shedding in stool and emesis over post-challenge days. This extraction includes individual participant stool and emesis shedding measurements from provided figure-derived CSV rows for placebo recipients.

Analytes

emesis

Norovirus shedding measurement in emesis, from figure-derived CSV data (quantitative values and negatives). Assay/method details not provided in the supplied text/CSV excerpt.

observations for emesis

Measurements only — no shedding model is fitted to this analyte, usually because it is sampled once per participant, leaving no trajectory to fit, or because nothing was ever detected. Open triangles are non-detects, drawn at the assay's censoring limit. See the modelling methods for what these estimates do and do not support.

Biomarker: norovirus
Specimen: emesis
Units: gc/mL
Participants: 60
Negative samples: 37
Positive samples (not quantifiable): 0
Quantifiable samples: 36
Limit of quantification: unknown
Limit of detection: 30566

stool

Norovirus shedding measurement in stool, from figure-derived CSV data (quantitative values and negatives). Assay/method details not provided in the supplied text/CSV excerpt.

gamma for stool

Fitted by censored maximum likelihood. The red line is the median individual; the shaded region is the full range of a simulated cohort drawn from the fitted population, so it shows what simulating from this dataset would produce rather than a confidence interval, with dashed lines at the central 95%. Open triangles are non-detects, drawn at the censoring limit and entering the fit as "below this value" rather than being dropped. See the modelling methods for what these estimates do and do not support.

Biomarker: norovirus
Specimen: stool
Units: gc/wet gram
Participants: 141
Negative samples: 295
Positive samples (not quantifiable): 0
Quantifiable samples: 279
Limit of quantification: unknown
Limit of detection: 152381