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Filter Paper Blood Spots Collected During Fever as a Source for Post-travel Diagnosis in Travelers

NCT02900066 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 350

Last updated 2021-03-03

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Summary

This study is part of a larger prospective cohort study (JOKA), designed to study febrile illness occurring during a travel to the tropics, as well as the evaluation of the clinical use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) by travelers or their peers during travel, as a decision aid for the management of febrile illness in the tropics.

Filter paper blood spots and paired serology are used in addition to routine post-travel evaluation, to study the incidence and etiological spectrum of febrile illness occurring during travel to the tropics.

The study will yield valuable and prospective data of incidence rate, the clinical and etiological spectrum, clinical course and outcome of febrile illness during (and post-)travel in a prospective cohorts of travelers. This knowledge may lead to better pre-travel advice.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jan Jacobs, MD PhD · Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-02-01
Primary Completion
2017-12-01
Completion
2018-09-01

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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