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Clinical Trials/DRKS00004833
DRKS00004833
Completed
Not Applicable

Streptococcus pneumoniae: Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Carriage in Nursing Home Residents - PneumoCaRe

niversitätsklinikum Jena0 sites542 target enrollmentApril 5, 2013

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
naso-/oropharyngeal pneumococcal carriagenaso-/oropharyngeal bacterial carriage
Sponsor
niversitätsklinikum Jena
Enrollment
542
Status
Completed
Last Updated
last year

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
April 5, 2013
End Date
February 28, 2014
Last Updated
last year
Study Type
Observational
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
niversitätsklinikum Jena

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Female and male nursing home residents in the age of 65 years and above living in one of the participating nursing homes
  • Willingness to participate of nursing home resident or his/her legal guardian
  • Written informed consent of participants or their legal guardians

Exclusion Criteria

  • Lack of power of judgement (Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) \< 24 points) without legal guardian
  • Refusal of participation by legal guardian
  • actual Medication with immunosuppressant drugs with systemic effect
  • Antibiotic use up to 10 days preceding swab
  • Hospital stay up to 2 weeks preceding swab
  • Nursing home residents with diagnosis of end stage malignoma
  • Participation on other clinical trials during this observational study

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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