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VENOUS: A Translational Study of Enterococcal Bacteremia

Recruiting
Conditions
Enterococcal Bacteremia
Registration Number
NCT04410276
Lead Sponsor
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to assemble a multicenter prospective cohort of patients with enterococcal bloodstream infections (BSIs) to provide data on outcomes of patients with enterococcal BSIs for sample size calculations for future trials, as well as to characterize enterococcal isolates causing BSIs in order to comprehensively dissect the molecular epidemiology of infecting organisms for future studies.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1000
Inclusion Criteria
  • Hospitalized patient
  • โ‰ฅ1 positive blood culture with Enterococcus spp. (VRE or VSE) during hospitalization
  • bacterial isolate(s) is/are available for further characterization
  • Repeat blood culture(s) within 7 days from the first positive culture
Exclusion Criteria
  • Cultures obtained from patients not admitted to the hospital
  • Isolate(s) not available for further studies.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
All-cause, in-hospital mortality30 days or until hospital discharge

Death by any cause while patient is in the hospital

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number of participants with recurrence of bacteremia14 days after the documented eradication of bacteremia

Positive blood culture with the same organism within the following 14 days after the documented eradication of bacteremia

Number of participants with microbiological outcome7 days after first documented positive blood culture

Eradication defined as a negative follow-up blood culture \> 4 days after index blood culture

Trial Locations

Locations (12)

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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Houston, Texas, United States

Hospital Sanatorio

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Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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Seattle, Washington, United States

MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Houston, Texas, United States

Jackson Health System, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

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Miami, Florida, United States

University of North Carolina

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

University of Mississippi Medical Center

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Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

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Barcelona, Spain

University of Cologne

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Cologne, Germany

Henry Ford Hospital and Medical Centers

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Detroit, Michigan, United States

Hospital Padre Hurtado

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Santiago, Chile

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