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Last refreshed on: 19 September 2022
Main ID:  NCT03013673
Date of registration: 05/01/2017
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
Public title: Predicting Visceral Leishmaniasis in HIV Infected Patients PreLeisH
Scientific title: Predicting Visceral Leishmaniasis in HIV Infected Patients
Date of first enrolment: October 11, 2017
Target sample size: 566
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03013673
Study type:  Observational
Study design:   
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
Ethiopia
Contacts
Name:     Johan van Griensven, MD PhD
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Affiliation:  Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Name:     Ermias Diro, MD
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Affiliation:  College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Confirmed HIV-positive

- Enrolled in HIV care at the study site

Exclusion Criteria:

- Age under 18 years

- Diagnosis of active Visceral Leishmaniasis at enrolment

- Unlikely to seek health care again at this site during the next two years

- Not able or willing to provide informed consent. For patients not able to provide
informed consent: No guardian available or willing to provide IC

- Medical emergency, underlying chronic medical condition, or other circumstances that
make adherence to the study unlikely, or participation in the study medically
inadvisable.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Leishmaniasis, Visceral
Intervention(s)
Other: No intervention
Primary Outcome(s)
Incidence rate of active VL [Time Frame: January 2020]
Incidence rate of asymptomatic Leishmania infection [Time Frame: January 2020]
Prognostic tool for active VL [Time Frame: January 2021]
Evolution of Leishmania infection markers [Time Frame: January 2020]
Prevalence of asymptomatic Leishmania infection [Time Frame: January 2018]
Risk factors for active VL [Time Frame: January 2020]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Evolution of host immune markers [Time Frame: January 2020]
Patterns in host immune markers for asymptomatic Leishmania infection [Time Frame: January 2020]
Patterns in host immune markers for VL relapse [Time Frame: January 2021]
Patterns in host immune markers for VL treatment failure [Time Frame: January 2021]
Secondary ID(s)
ITM0915
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
Bureau of Health, Abdurafi, Ethiopia
Medecins Sans Frontieres, Netherlands
Ethics review
Results
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