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Last refreshed on: 1 March 2021
Main ID:  NCT03112655
Date of registration: 31/03/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
Public title: Diagnostic Tools for Human African Trypanosomiasis Elimination and Clinical Trials: Early Test-of-cure DiTECT-WP4
Scientific title: Diagnostic Tools for Human African Trypanosomiasis Elimination and Clinical Trials: WP4 Early Test-of-cure
Date of first enrolment: February 24, 2017
Target sample size: 88
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03112655
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Sequential Assignment. Primary purpose: Diagnostic. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
Contacts
Name:     Veerle Lejon, PhD
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Affiliation:  Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Eligible for participation in DNDi-OXA-02-HAT clinical trial

Exclusion Criteria:

- Excluded for DNDi-OXA-02-HAT clinical trial; No informed consent for participation in
the DiTECT-HAT-WP4 study



Age minimum: 15 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
African Trypanosomiasis
African; Trypanosomiasis, West
Sleeping Sickness; West African
Trypanosoma Brucei Gambiense; Infection
Intervention(s)
Diagnostic Test: RNA and neopterin detection
Primary Outcome(s)
Specificity of SL-RNA detection in blood, SL-RNA detection in cerebrospinal fluid and of neopterin & 5-hydroxytryptophan quantification in cerebrospinal fluid for cure after human African trypanosomiasis treatment [Time Frame: 18 months]
Sensitivity of SL-RNA detection in blood, SL-RNA detection in cerebrospinal fluid and of neopterin & 5-hydroxytryptophan quantification in cerebrospinal fluid for relapse after human African trypanosomiasis treatment [Time Frame: 18 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Sensitivity and specificity SL-RNA detection in cerebrospinal fluid for outcome assesment after treatment for human African trypanosomiasis [Time Frame: post treatment day 11, month 6, month 12 and month 18]
Sensitivity and specificity by ROC analysis of neopterin & 5-hydroxytryptophan quantification in cerebrospinal fluid for outcome assesment after treatment for human African trypanosomiasis [Time Frame: post treatment day 11, month 6, month 12 and month 18]
Sensitivity and specificity SL-RNA detection in blood for outcome assesment after treatment for human African trypanosomiasis [Time Frame: post treatment day 11, month 6, month 12 and month 18]
Secondary ID(s)
DiTECT-HAT-WP4
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale. Kinshasa, République Démocratique du Congo
Ministry of Public Health, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethics review
Results
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