Host Response to Infection and Treatment in Lymphatic Filarial Disease in India

NCT00342576 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1500

Last updated 2019-07-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients admitted on this protocol will have, or be suspected of having, one of the lymphatic filarial infections affecting humans. After routine clinical evaluation they will be studied in depth immunologically, and their blood cells and/or serum will be collected to provide reagents (eg., specific antibodies, T cell clones, etc.) that will be used in the laboratory to address the broader questions of immunodiagnosis, immunoregulation, immunopathology and immunoprophylaxis. Careful observations of the patients' clinical and immunologic responses to therapy will be made, as well as long-term follow-up of these changes. It is anticipated both that the patients will receive optimal clinical care for their infections and that the specimens collected from them will prove to be valuable reagents for the laboratory studies of the immunologic responses unique to filarial or other helminthic infections.

Conditions

  • Lymphatic Filarial Disease

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas B Nutman, M.D. · National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1994-04-23
Completion
2019-07-15

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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