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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03353051
Date of registration: 20/07/2017
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Public title: Iron and Infection: Neonatal Nutritional Immunity NeoInnate
Scientific title: Iron and Infection: Neonatal Nutritional Immunity (NeoInnate Study)
Date of first enrolment: July 25, 2017
Target sample size: 430
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03353051
Study type:  Observational
Study design:   
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
Gambia
Contacts
Name:     Carla Cerami, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  Medical Council Unit the Gambia
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Low Birth Weight (LBW) neonates:

- Medical stable neonates

- Neonatal weight =2000g and <2500g

- Born at Serrekunda Hospital

- Gestational age will be >37 weeks.

- Born to mothers at least 18 years of age

Preterm neonates with Low Birth Weight (PTB+LBW):

- Medical stable neonates

- Born at Serrekunda Hospital

- Neonates weighing <2500g and <37 weeks of gestational age.

- Born to mothers at least 18 years of age

Preterm (PTB) neonates:

- Medical stable neonates

- >32 and <37 weeks' gestational age

- Born at Serrekunda Hospital

- PTB neonates will weigh more than 2500g

- Born to mothers at least 18 years of age

Full Term (FT) neonates:

- Healthy neonates

- Born at Serrekunda Hospital

- FT neonates will weigh =2500g

- Gestational age =37 weeks

- Born to mothers at least 18 years of age

Exclusion Criteria:

- Major congenital malformations

- Severe birth asphyxia

- Children from multiple births

- Medication (i.e. prophylactic antibiotics) given to neonate before first neonatal
venous blood draw

- Neonates born via Breech, Vacuum or C section

- Neonates with infection/illness (information gained from venous bleed) will no longer
be required to give future samples if originally required



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: 28 Days
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Neonatal Infection
Nutritional Anemia
Intervention(s)
Other: Observational study
Primary Outcome(s)
serum iron [Time Frame: at 7 days after birth]
Secondary Outcome(s)
TSAT (%) and heme iron (mg/dL) [Time Frame: at 6 hours after birth]
microorganisms that are common causes of neonatal sepsis [Time Frame: At 0, 6 and 24 hours after birth]
Iron (ug/dL), TSAT (%) and heme iron (mg/dL) regulated regulation in FT neonates [Time Frame: 7 days after birth]
Secondary ID(s)
SCC1525
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Department of State for Health and Social Welfare, The Gambia
University of Oxford
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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