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Pilot Survey of Dengue Fever in Solomon Islands

NCT01868399 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2200

Last updated 2017-03-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Since 2009, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital organized a medical team to provide the medical service for people in Solomon Islands thru Taiwan Health Center at the local. In addition to Malaria and pulmonary tuberculosis, the investigators also found dengue virus, Japanese Encephalitis virus, Chikungunya virus infections and intestinal parasitic infections might be the existing but overlooked and neglected medical issues in Solomon Islands. These infections show similarity in clinical manifestations and usually difficulty in clinical diagnosis, instead these infections rely on the laboratory identification with good laboratory quality and facility.

Conditions

  • Arbovirus Infections

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China, TAIWAN

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Solomon Islands

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • National Referral Hospital

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wen-Ter Lai, MD · Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

  • Jih-Jin Tsai, MD, Ph. D. · Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-22
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

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