Surveillance of Healthcare-associated Infections & Antimicrobial Resistance

Enrolling by invitation

Conditions studied: Antimicrobial Resistance

In brief

The aims of this project, called "Surveillance of Healthcare-associated infections \& Antimicrobial Resistance", or "SHARE", are to 1) enhance laboratory capacity to detect emerging AMR patterns; 2) strengthen hospital epidemiology programs to use data to prevent, detect, and contain emerging AMR threats; 3) deploy study teams to answer critical public health surveillance questions, and 4) to build a national network of infection prevention and control (IPC) resources to prevent, detect, and contain emerging infectious disease threats

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05734391

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

1500

Starts

2022-10-01

Expected to finish

2027-12-20

Last updated by the study team

2025-09-12

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• hospital inpatient admission to participating wards.

You may not qualify if…

• diagnosis of a bleeding disorder
• platelet counts of <50,000
• diagnosis of coagulopathy
• presence of active bleeding
• inability to have a nares swab collected due to some other condition where nasal swabbing would be contraindicated
• inability to have a rectal swab collected due to some other condition where rectal swabbing would be contraindicated

Where it is running

• University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Princess Marina Hospital — Gaborone, Botswana

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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