Adaptive Dengue Antiviral Platform Trial

This is a randomized, open-label adaptive platform trial investigating the antiviral effectiveness of various intervention arms in patients with lab-confirmed dengue and less than 48 hours of fever. The antiviral candidates in this trial will include the repurposed antiviral drugs, novel small molecule drugs and dengue monoclonal antibody. Patients will be randomly allocated between available treatment arms and compared to standard of care ("no study drug": no placebos will be made for this trial). The current sites include Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Other sites and countries may be added in due course. This is a continually running adaptive platform trial, which begins with two initial candidate drugs (a total of 3 arms): molnupiravir and VIS513 (a dengue monoclonal antibody). New therapies may be added and poorly performing arms or interventions meeting pre-specific thresholds for in vivo antiviral efficacy will be removed. The sample size is adaptive with multiple planned interim analyses. The number of patients recruited depends on the results. For each intervention studied the sample size will be adaptive and determined by pre-specified stopping rules for futility and efficacy. Patients are invited to participate in the trial if they present at the healthcare settings with early symptomatic dengue virus infection (less than 48 hours since the onset of fever and positive NS1 antigen test) and can be able to return for follow up visits at 30 and 60 days after randomization. The randomization ratios will be uniform for all available and eligible arms (1:1:1...).