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A Study to Assess the Carriage of Pneumococci in Children Aged 1-5 Years, and Their Household Contacts

NCT02522546 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2019-03-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Pneumococci are bacteria which can cause serious and potentially life threatening illnesses like meningitis and blood poisoning.

Pneumococcal vaccines (PCV) have been given in the national immunisation schedule since 2006.Carriage studies allow assessment of how the strains in the nose change over time, in that by clearing some strains away which other strains take up those niches in their place both in children and in their close/household contacts. This helps to inform the best use of the vaccines available and for future vaccine development and which strains would be useful to include.

Conditions

  • Nasal Carriage of Pneumococci

Interventions

OTHER

nasopharyngeal swab

nasopharyngeal swab

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Public Health England

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Elizabeth Coates, PhD · Public Health England

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Year
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-07-31
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

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