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Filter by:The goal of this observational study is to compare the incidence of ARI and/or diarrheal disease associated with feeding different formulas with and without lactoferrin supplement in children of 2-3 years old. 200 children eligible for the study will be enrolled from two study sites and randomly assigned to two groups (a2 growing up stage 3 formula puls lactoferrin supplement, and Enfinitas growing up stage 3 formula) to feed for 90 days. About 160 children (80 for each group) are expected to finish the study, and data will be collected during the four visits across the study. Researchers will compare the two groups to see if there is significant decrease of the occurrence of diarrheal disease and/or acute respiratory infection for children fed with a2 growing up stage 3 formula puls lactoferrin supplement
The goal of this type of study: clinical trial is to determine the effectiveness of educational practices on catheter-associated infection control measures on surgical nurses. The main question it aims to answer are: - Is there a difference between the knowledge and attitude levels of surgical nurses receiving and not receiving catheter-related infection control training on preventing peripheral and central catheter-related bloodstream infections? - Is there a difference between the knowledge and attitude levels of surgical nurses receiving and not receiving catheter-related infection control training to prevent catheter-related urinary tract infections? The main tasks that the participants will be asked to do will be explained and their consent will be obtained. The two research groups will be compared.
Evaluation of a novel self-collection device for cervical cancer screening.
Breast milk is the mainstay of newborn nutrition, providing all the nutrients and vitamins necessary for optimal growth of newborn infants. Beside its nutritional properties, breast milk also contains bioactive factors such as soluble immune factors, antimicrobial proteins, functional fatty acids, hormones, oligosaccharides, stem cells and microbiota. Although fresh breast milk is the optimal source of nutrition for newborn infants, breast milk must be expressed and stored in some conditions. Breast milk was thought to be sterile for many years. This idea has changed with the isolation of live bacteria in the breast milk of healthy mothers in the recent past. Thus, it has been shown that breast milk is not actually a sterile body fluid, but has a microbiota of its own. This study aimed to examine the effect of storage conditions of breast milk at different temperatures on the microbial composition of the breast milk. The prospective experimental study will be conducted under the supervision of Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology Department. Informed consent of mothers will be taken. Thirty mililiter (30 mL) breast milk that was obtained from volunteer mothers will be divided into 3 samples, each 10 mL of breast milk will be stored at different temperatures. Ten mililiter will be studied for microbial composition with 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and bioinformatics analysis immediately, 10 mL will be stored at +4'C for 3 days and will be studied at the end of 3rd day, other 10 mL will be stored at -20'C for 3 months and will be studied at the end of 3rd months. 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and bioinformatic analysis studies will be performed at Istanbul Medical Faculty Clinical Nutrition and Microbiota Research Laboratory. This present study is planned to be carried out for 24 months between January 2023 and December 2024
With the aim to pilot a full-scaled trial to reduce unnecessary antibiotics in women with suspected uncomplicated urinary tract infections, twenty general practices in Bavaria, Germany, will be randomized to deliver patient management based on phase-contrast microscopy and urinary dipsticks or to usual care. Primary endpoints are recruitment and retention rates.
HIV remains a global pandemic with 37 million infected. In western Kenya, 16% of women in the general population and 29% of the poorest women have HIV. The HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) epidemics overlap with broader reproductive health concerns. Menstrual hygiene management is a big problem in low- and middle-income countries and a lack of menstrual products negatively impacts women's work-life. This comes from cultural taboos, stigma, and discrimination, promoting secrecy around menstruation, high cost of menstrual products, use of traditional materials (e.g. rags, cotton wool, etc.) causing leakage and odor, and lack of water and safe hygiene facilities. Menstrual cups designed for use during sex may help women prevent Bacterial vaginosis (BV) and STIs through hygienic period practices, and may help them avoid bad practices in an attempt to maintain vaginal dryness. The goal of this interventional trial is to test the impact of menstrual cups on vaginal microbiome, BV, and STIs of poor women at high risk for STIs and HIV. We predict to see 25% less BV, our primary outcome, over one year. This trial aims to learn more about the safety of the intervention, and understand what is needed to fully implement the program.
The purpose of the study is to describe the rate of occurrence of clinical diagnosis of acute respiratory infection (an infection that affects normal breathing) and different types of respiratory pathogens (harmful organisms) of new respiratory infections in a population at high risk for severe illness.
Current virus detection methods often take significant time or can be limited in sensitivity, specificity or cost. There is therefore a need for diagnostic methods that are simple to use, sensitive, rapid and inexpensive. This is a proof of concept study to determine whether the OxDx system (a new a rapid pathogen identification technology) is able to detect and differentiate different viruses from nasopharyngeal swabs/aspirate specimens. The data collected will be used to "train" the algorithms to be able to accurately identify respiratory viruses. The accuracy with which the algorithms estimate the test dataset will be monitored at regular intervals during the training dataset collection period. The OxDx system is still under development, which means that it is still "learning". The system needs to see more information so that it can be sufficiently accurate to be used in clinical practice and should become more accurate in identifying these viruses as it sees more and more information from patients. This study will take place at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and aims to recruit 1000 patients. To do this, we will recruit both adults and children who either present to the emergency department or are admitted to QAH with a clinical suspicion of a respiratory viral infection. All participants will have a nose and/or throat swab taken as part of their clinical assessment, and we would ask to take a further nasal swab for the purpose of the study. Research sampling will be combined with routine clinical samples where possible to reduce the frequency of testing. We will use most of the information to teach the system how to become more accurate at identifying respiratory viruses. We will keep the remaining information separate and use it to test how accurate the system is. All of the data will be kept securely. Basic information will be collected including age, gender, results of blood tests taken for clinical review, treatment and outcome data. No results from the swabs taken for the purpose of the study will be available to either the participant or the clinical team and the information will have no effect on patient care.
Aortic or large arterial vessel infections are rare but serious infections. Their management is based on French and American expert opinions. The quality of evidence supporting these guidelines is low because most publications on the subject correspond to case series and few interventional studies have been performed to validate their management. However, referral centres for vascular surgery are frequently solicited to give their opinion on patients suffering from mycotic aneurysms. In addition, the last few decades have seen the improvement of vascular surgery techniques allowing the management of more and more patients, often elderly and comorbid. There has therefore been an increase in the incidence of infectious complications associated with this care. It is therefore essential to participate in research on aortic and large arterial vessel infections. For this, a monocentric cohort study seems to be an essential first step to better understand the polymorphism and complexity of these patients.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of probiotics during vonoprazan-amoxicillin dual therapy on the gut microbiota in Helicobacter pylori eradication and to investigate whether the eradication rate of H.pylori will be improved when adding probiotics