Point-of-Use Pathogen Identification Tool for Diarrhea
Stopped early
Conditions studied: Diarrhea
In brief
Background: Many people suffer from diarrhea every year. In the United States, it leads to about 130,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths a year. Researchers want to test a tool that may show them what germs cause diarrhea. It is a simple paper strip test and doesn t require electric power. This may make it easier for health care workers to more quickly fight diarrheal diseases. Objective: To test a tool that may detect what germs cause diarrhea. Eligibility: People already enrolled in an active NIH protocol who have diarrhea Design: Participants will have 1 or 2 studies. They will give information about their symptoms, current medicines, and basic personal data. They will give a stool sample. Part of each sample will be tested in a lab. The rest will be stored indefinitely. No personal data will be connected to the samples. The stored samples may be used in future research. Positive test results will be reported to a participant s primary doctor
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03394040
- Run by
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- People needed
- 1000
- Starts
- 2019-02-14
- Expected to finish
- 2019-12-23
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-01-06
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may not qualify if…
- This protocol will exclude outpatients who are clinically unstable patients. Clinically unstable patient is defined as someone requiring emergent care or hospitalization.
- Antibiotic use, which can affect intestinal flora, is not exclusionary but will be controlled for via post-hoc analysis.
- NINR employees, subordinates/relatives/ or co-workers.
- Any NIH employee who is a subordinates/relatives/or co-workers of study investigator.
Where it is running
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center — Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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