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Improving the Diagnosis of Tonsillitis in Emergency Rooms

NCT02858687 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 312

Last updated 2023-04-21

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Summary

A point-of-care laboratory (POC) was set at North Hospital, Marseille, France for the diagnosis in less than two hours of tonsillitis caused by known pathogens, close to the reception of Emergency service. In this instance 30% of patients have no etiological diagnosis after the POC tonsillitis tests . This lab has discovered over 200 new species of bacteria in humans, including vector bacteria and opened the field of large Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA ) viruses. Also, the laboratory of emerging viruses discovered many Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) viruses transmitted by arthropods. Based on this collection of new pathogens described in POC laboratory, this study proposes to expand the etiological diagnosis strategy of tonsillitis after POC tests.

The objective of this study is to implement a new diagnosis strategy relying on the hypothesis that a second pharyngeal swab would improve the etiological diagnosis of tonsillitis of at least 5%.

Conditions

  • Tonsillitis

Interventions

OTHER

Nasopharyngeal swab

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Catherine GEINDRE · Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-02-26
Primary Completion
2019-02-08
Completion
2022-10-27

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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