The Impact of MeMed BV® on Management of Patients With Suspected Lower Respiratory Tract Infections (LRTI) in the Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Care Center (UCC) ("JUPITER" TRIAL)

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Conditions studied: Lower Respiratory Tract Infection

In brief

This is a Prospective, multi-center study enrolling adults subjects presented to the ED/Urgent care, with symptoms consistent with lower respiratory infection (LRTI). The reason of this study is to demonstrate the MeMed BV can help clinicians make decisions about using antibiotics in patients with lower respiratory track infections and see how it would impact clinical outcomes, antibiotics use, hospitalizations, ED clinicians find ways to improve health and medical care.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT05762302
Run by: MeMed Diagnostics Ltd.
People needed: 1316
Starts: 2023-01-31
Expected to finish: 2026-02-28
Last updated by the study team: 2026-01-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Patients eligible for inclusion are required to fulfill all of the following criteria:
Written informed consent must be obtained from the patient or his/her legal guardian.
18 years of age or older.
Current disease duration ≤ 7 days.
Tactile fever or measured temperature ≥ 37.8°C (100°F) (any body site, any measurement device, including self-reported), either of them noted at least once within the last 7 days.
Clinical suspicion of bacterial or viral LRTI: At least one of the following respiratory signs or symptoms: cough (new or worsening), sputum production, dyspnea/shortness of breath, auscultatory abnormality (e.g. wheezing, rhonchi).
Clinician intent to prescribe antibiotics based on the currently available data.

You may not qualify if…

Patients fulfilling any of the following criteria are not eligible for inclusion in the infectious cohort:
Systemic antibiotics within 72 hours prior to enrollment
Inflammatory disease (e.g., IBD, SLE, Rheumatoid arthritis, Kawasaki, other vasculitis)
Congenital immune deficiency (CID)
A proven or suspected infection on presentation with Mycobacterial (e.g., MAC, MABC), parasitic or fungal (e.g., Candida, Histoplasma, Aspergillus) pathogen
HIV, HBV, or HCV infection (self-declared or known from medical records)
Major surgery, trauma and\\or burns in the last 7 days
Pregnancy- self reported or medically confirmed
Active malignancy - Cancer diagnosed within the previous six months, recurrent, regionally advanced or metastatic cancer, cancer for which treatment had been administered within six months, or hematological cancer that is not in complete remission.
Patients with severe illnesses that affect life expectancy and quality of life such as end stage renal disease, end stage liver disease or severe COPD.
Clinician intent to hospitalize patient.
Patients with suspected concomitant infections (e.g. UTI, cellulitis, gastroenteritis, etc.)
Active treatment with immune-suppressive or immune-modulating therapies, including without limitations:
Administration of PO\\IV\\IM high dose steroids >1mg/kg/day prednisone (or equivalent) at some point in the past 10 days or daily continuous use of steroids > 0.25 mg/kg/day in the past 7 days Monoclonal antibodies, anti-TNF agents Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) Cyclosporine, Cyclophosphamide, Tacrolimus, Azathioprine, Methotrexate G/GM-CSF, Interferons
Considered unsuitable for the study by the study team

Where it is running

University of Florida-Jacksonville — Jacksonville, Florida, United States (enrolling)
University of Kansas Medical Center — Kansas City, Kansas, United States (enrolling)
Maimonides Medical Center — Brooklyn, New York, United States (enrolling)
Stony Brook University Hospital — Stony Brook, New York, United States (enrolling)
Philadelphia Thomas Jefferson ED — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)
Medical University South Carolina — Charleston, South Carolina, United States (enrolling)
UT Southwestern Medical Center — Dallas, Texas, United States (enrolling)
MCW — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States (enrolling)
Carmel Medical Center — Haifa, North, Israel (enrolling)
Lin Medical Center — Haifa, Israel

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