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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03400878
Date of registration: 28/11/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Bandim Health Project
Public title: Comparing Morbidity and Mortality Effects of Two Different Strains of BCG
Scientific title: Evaluating the Non-specific Effects of Different BCG Strains in Guinea-Bissau: Randomized Trial of the Impact on Early-life Hospital Admissions and Deaths
Date of first enrolment: October 14, 2017
Target sample size: 17505
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03400878
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Basic Science. Masking: Double (Care Provider, Outcomes Assessor).  
Phase:  Phase 4
Countries of recruitment
Guinea-Bissau
Contacts
Name:     Peter Aaby, Professor
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Bandim Health Project
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria:

Newborn, unvaccinated infants identified at the maternity ward and ready to be discharged

Exclusion criteria:

Infants above 6 weeks (>42 days) of age; Infants with gross malformation; Infants that are
acutely ill



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: 42 Days
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Vaccine Reaction
Trained Immunity
Infant Morbidity
Infant Mortality
Heterologous Immunity
Vaccine Adverse Reaction
Intervention(s)
Biological: BCG-Japan
Biological: BCG-Russia
Primary Outcome(s)
Hospital admission at National Hospital Simão Mendes Pediatric Ward [Time Frame: 6 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Hospital admission at National Hospital Simão Mendes' Pediatric Ward, stratified by parental BCG scar status [Time Frame: 6 months]
In-hospital case-fatality rate at Pediatric Ward [Time Frame: 6 months]
Hospital admission at National Hospital Simão Mendes' Pediatric Ward, stratified by parental BCG scar status [Time Frame: 6 weeks]
Hospital admission at National Hospital Simão Mendes Pediatric Ward [Time Frame: 6 months]
In-hospital case-fatality rate at National Hospital Simão Mendes' Pediatric Ward, stratified by parental BCG scar status [Time Frame: 6 months]
In-hospital case-fatality rate at National Hospital Simão Mendes' Pediatric Ward, stratified by parental BCG scar status [Time Frame: 6 weeks]
Mortality [Time Frame: 6 weeks]
In-hospital case-fatality rate at National Hospital Simão Mendes Pediatric Ward [Time Frame: 6 weeks]
Mortality [Time Frame: 6 months]
Mortality, stratified by parental BCG scar status [Time Frame: 6 months]
Mortality, stratified by parental BCG scar status [Time Frame: 6 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
BCGSTRAIN II
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Research Center for Vitamins and Vaccines
Ethics review
Results
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