Impact of PCV on Disease and Colonization Among Native American Communities

Completed

Conditions studied: Pneumococcal Nasopharyngeal Colonization, Invasive Pneumococcal Disease

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on carriage of pneumococcus in the nasopharynx and on the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease in the community.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01083459

Run by

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

People needed

6628

Starts

2010-01-01

Expected to finish

2012-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-01-19

Who can join

Age: 1 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• American Indian children and their families (i.e. people of all ages) who live in the Whiteriver, Fort Defiance, Chinle, Gallup, Shiprock Service Units are eligible to participate in the carriage portion of the study.

You may not qualify if…

• Anyone with a congenital anomaly of the nasopharynx would not be eligible to participate in the carriage portion of the study

Where it is running

• White Mountain Apache reservation — Whiteriver, Arizona, United States
• Navajo reservation — Gallup, New Mexico, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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