Pilot Survey of Dengue Fever in Solomon Islands

Arbovirus Infections Clinical Trial

Official title:

Pilot Survey of Dengue Fever in Solomon Islands

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01868399
• Other study ID #: KMUH-IRB-20120080
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 27, 2013
• Last updated: March 5, 2017
• Start date: March 22, 2013
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2016

Study information

• Verified date: August 2016
• Source: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

Since 2009, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital organized a medical team to provide the medical service for people in Solomon Islands thru Taiwan Health Center at the local. In addition to Malaria and pulmonary tuberculosis, the investigators also found dengue virus, Japanese Encephalitis virus, Chikungunya virus infections and intestinal parasitic infections might be the existing but overlooked and neglected medical issues in Solomon Islands. These infections show similarity in clinical manifestations and usually difficulty in clinical diagnosis, instead these infections rely on the laboratory identification with good laboratory quality and facility.

Description:

In this study, the investigators plan to investigate the local people, either from the community or the hospitals, to identify the prevalence and incidence of dengue fever, including laboratory identification of related infections for differential diagnosis, including Japanese Encephalitis virus, Chikungunya virus and intestinal parasitic infections. Intestinal parasite survey has been the routine long-term service offered by the Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital in Solomon Islands. At the same time, the subjects enrolled in this study will also be asked the common medical illness in Solomon Islands (i.e. malaria, pulmonary tuberculosis and metabolic syndrome etc.) in order to delineate the association of dengue fever and these acute and chronic illness.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 2200
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2016
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• healthy volunteer

• reported dengue virus infection volunteer

• people who understand the purpose of the study and agree the to sign the informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• people who refuse to join the study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Arbovirus Infections
• Dengue

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Tropical Medicine center	Kaohsiung city

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital	Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China, TAIWAN, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Solomon Islands, National Referral Hospital,Solomon Islands

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Dengue fever	Clinical manifestations, comorbidity and severity	at the time of sampling (blood)
Secondary	Co-infection and interplay of dengue-like pathogens	Identification and Analysis of dengue-like illness and pathogens to investigate the interplay between these coinfections	within the first 3 months after blood sampling