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Administrative data

NCT number NCT00391313
Other study ID # 2006-002624-42
Secondary ID
Status Terminated
Phase Phase 3
First received October 20, 2006
Last updated August 27, 2015
Start date May 2006
Est. completion date March 2007

Study information

Verified date August 2015
Source Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority France: Afssaps - Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (Saint-Denis)
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

A severe outbreak of Chikungunya fever has been reported at La Réunion Island (France) in 2005-2006. Chikungunya is a viral disease. Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus transmitted to humans by the bite of infected mosquitoes, usually of the genus Aedes (Aedes albopictus in La Réunion).

To date, more than 266,000 cases were estimated to have occurred in the island (760,000 inhabitants). Most of cases are expressed as a mild disease, with intense fever and arthralgias, with rare but serious complications (encephalitis, liver, cardiac or renal failures.) having required a hospitalization in an intensive care unit. 273 of such serious cases (immediately life threatening condition) have been reported among the cases, in patients aged over 10 days (59% were 65+ age old). Chikungunya was proven in 246 serious cases; 101 patients had comorbidities, and 27% of confirmed cases eventually died. In addition 44 cases of mother-to-child infections were reported and 40 were confirmed (one died).

To date, in 248 death certificates, chikungunya was reported as the direct or indirect cause of death, with a median age of 79, range 0-102, and a sex-ratio (M/F) of 0.95. InVS, in collaboration with Inserm (French NIH) also reported (by June 6, 2006) a significant excess of mortality (from all causes) during the major outbreak which occurred from December, 2005 (+10%) to April, 2006 (10.1%), with a peak of excess mortality reached in February (+34.4%), concommitant to the peak of incidence.

Today, there is no antiviral treatment against Chikungunya. We showed from ex-vivo studies (in a sensitive model of cells culture to the viral infection) that chloroquine provides a significant inhibition on the replication of the Chikungunya virus. This efficacy seemed also to be reached at a plasmatic concentration of similar order of magnitude as recommended for treating malaria with this drug.

This trial aims to assess efficacy and safety of chloroquine as as therapeutic treatment of chikungunya disease.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Terminated
Enrollment 0
Est. completion date March 2007
Est. primary completion date
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 18 Years to 66 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Adult patients of more than 18 years and less than 66 years (men and nonpregnant women, without counter-indications) voluntary to take part in of the study, residing at the Reunion Island, having a body weight equal to or higher than 60 kg for a clinical chikungunya disease diagnosed within less than 48 hours.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Pregnant Women

- More than 66 years old

- body weight less than 60 kg

- without counter-indications to chloroquine

- Renal Insufficiency

- Retinopathy

- Coeliac disease

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Drug:
Chloroquine


Locations

Country Name City State
France Cellule Coordination Nivachik Saint Pierre ile de la Reunion

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

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