Active clinical trials for "Chikungunya Fever"

Background: Zika, dengue, and chikungunya are spread by mosquitos. These diseases have a major impact on public health. This is especially true in in Southeast Asia. Non-human primates (such as macaques) could play an essential role in spreading these diseases. Researchers want to further understand the relationship between humans and these primates. They want to see how this affects how mosquito-borne viruses are spread in Southeast Asia. Objective: To describe the prevalence of Zika virus, dengue virus, and chikungunya virus in the blood of people who live close to long-tailed macaques in Thailand and Cambodia. Eligibility: Healthy people aged 18-55 who have lived or worked within approximately 10 kilometers of the Wat Amphae Phnom monkey habitat in Kampong Speu, Cambodia, for a minimum of 2 years Design: Participation will last 1 day. Participants will be screened in person through an interview. Their medical history will be reviewed. Participants will give information about themselves. This will include sex, age, and behaviors related to the spread of mosquito-borne disease. For example, they will be asked about the number of water containers at their home. They will be asked about recent travel. They will be asked about the extent of their contact with the macaques. Participants will give a blood sample....

Chikungunya is an infectious disease caused by an alphavirus transmitted by the Aedes mosquitoes which has known a worldwide expansion since its re-emergence in 2004. Regarding to an unprecedented epidemic, Reunionese pediatricians described in 2005-2006 a vertical maternal-fetal transmission of this virus, at the time of childbirth. Since then, this mode of transmission has been widely confirmed, with an absolute risk estimated between 15.5% and 48.3%. The main consequences for the child are neuromotor, neurosensory or neurocognitive. They were studied around the age of 2 in 33 children in the CHIMERE cohort, as well as at the age of 5 in a small fraction of these children followed at the C.A.M.S.P (Center for Early Medico-Social Action). The results suggested an overall delay in psychomotor acquisitions secondary to neonatal infection, affecting the functions of the prefrontal region (in particular coordination and language). Performance was correlated with the severity of the clinical presentation (more severe in case of encephalitis or encephalopathy) while remaining suboptimal in children with uncomplicated infection. During neurodevelopmental monitoring, other disturbing traits complemented the spectrum of problems presented by these children, such as microcephaly, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, interaction disorder or attention deficit disorder. At around age 10, the investigators reassessed 21 of these children using the Childhood Cognitive Function and Learning (EDA) screening test. The investigators would now like to confirm and characterize their impairments using a battery of confirmatory tests around the age of 13.

Background: Zika virus is mostly passed on by the bite of an infected mosquito. It usually causes mild illness. But in pregnant women it can cause serious birth defects to the baby. The virus can also spread by blood transfusion and sexual intercourse. This is why the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that people should not give blood if possibly exposed to Zika virus. Dengue virus and chikungunya virus are passed by the same mosquitoes as Zika virus. These can cause severe reactions if passed through transfused blood. Donated blood is usually not tested for these three viruses. Researchers want to count the infections in people who have been exposed because of travel or sexual exposure. They want to learn the risk these viruses might pose to the U.S. blood supply. They also want to study the natural history of these viruses by following infected people over time. Objective: To study the risk of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses to the U.S. blood supply. Eligibility: Adults age 18 or older who were turned down for donating blood because of possible exposure to certain viruses. Design: Participants will have blood and urine tests. They will answer questions about their travel. They will be called in about a week with virus test results. Participants with negative results do not have any more study visits. Participants with positive results will be asked to stay in the study for 6 months. They will have weekly clinic visits and tests until results are negative for 2 straight weeks. Once test results are negative, they will have monthly visits. Visits will include physical exams, blood and urine samples, and optional semen samples from men. Most people will have 3-4 weekly visits and 5 monthly visits.

Late 2013, the first indigenous cases of chikungunya have been observed in the French Antilles. At the end of May 2014, almost all of the islands of the Caribbean were affected by the outbreak. During the large epidemic which affected the Island of La Réunion in 2005/2006, the attack rate was 38%. The most active period was three months. In this context, knowledge of the attack rate and the epidemic in the Caribbean is an important issue for outbreak management and modeling work. As the chikungunya virus had never circulated in the Caribbean, determining the seroconversion rate can be achieved by realizing a seroprevalence survey among the general population at the end of the outbreak. Another simple method is to estimate the rate in a cohort of patients followed regularly and whose habitat is distributed throughout the territory studied. The follow up of patients infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the French West Indies is almost exclusively performed in hospitals in department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases.The high prevalence of HIV and homogeneous distribution of infected patients on all of our territories, allow to hypothesize that the risk of transmission of arboviruses by exposure to mosquito bites is comparable to the general population. This patient cohort is well suited to study the emergence of Chikungunya in the French West Indie . Primary objective : To estimate the cumulative incidence at the end of the first Chikungunya outbreak in the French West Indies by estimating the prevalence of specific antibodies of chikungunya virus in a sample (randomly constituted) from patients infected by HIV and representative of the general population of Martinique and Guadeloupe Secondary objective : To estimate the frequency of asymptomatic infections by the chikungunya virus in the studied population To estimate the frequency of chronic forms of chikungunya in the studied population

QoLCHIK study aims at evaluating impact of chikungunya infection on the quality of life of infected people during the 2005-2006 outbreak in Reunion Island and followed in the TELECHIK cohort by comparing scores of SF-36 health survey.

Study setting: Medellin and Bello municipalities, Colombia Health condition(s) studied: Dengue, Zika and chikungunya virus infection Intervention: Deployment of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Medellin and Bello. Study design: An interrupted time-series analysis utilising routine disease surveillance data collected by the Medellín and Bello Health Secretariats, which aims to compare incidence of dengue, chikungunya and Zika pre- and post-Wolbachia release. A test-negative study using an incident case-control design, which aims to quantify the reduction in disease incidence among people living within a Wolbachia-treated zone compared with an untreated zone that has a similar dengue risk profile at baseline.

This test is to be collected during the dengue outbreak samples, including samples back in the past and forward to close the case, investigating the prevalence of serum Chikungunya virus infection, and against those suspected dengue fever, Chikungunya disease-related tests conducted to clarify dengue and Chikungunya disease of clinical judgment, rapid method to detect Chikungunya virus and then develop.

This study will evaluate subjects with fever and/or rash to determine the percentage of those infected by the Zika, Chikungunya, or Dengue virus. The study will also compare the clinical signs, symptoms, and lab abnormalities related to each virus, to better specify each virus's characteristics.

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection has become a threat to public health worldwide. Reunion Island, due to the 2005-2006 epidemic, has acquired unique expertise and remains at the forefront of global research on this disease. The idea of genetic determinism of the clinical expression of infectious diseases has been supported by many epidemiological arguments over the past fifty years. The identification of genetic variants, associated with a disease, often allows a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved with consequent significant benefits such as the development of specific biomarkers for new preventive (vaccination) and / or therapeutic (drug design) approaches. In the absence of well-documented hypotheses about the genes potentially involved in the occurrence or evolution of a disease, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), whole genome, of nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the principle of linkage disequilibrium, under the commonly accepted hypothesis that the expression of a common disease is based on a small number of alleles commonly found in the population (frequency of minor allele greater than 1-5%), have become a method of choice, free of hypothesis, to specify the part of heritability of a complex disease and to identify its genetic determinants. Several epidemiological arguments support a significant proportion of genetic determinism in the explanation of the evolutionary pattern of Chikungunya, whose proportion of chronic forms can reach 40-60% in population-based studies conducted in the two years following an epidemic: There are few risk factors associated with chronic forms and these appear to be unclear (age, comorbidities with several elements of the metabolic syndrome) or inconsistent (immune burden) in population studies; The incidence of severe or atypical forms is rare in the order of 1% of infections; In contrast to the acute phase (J1-J21) for which there seems to be a role of the viral load intensity and a consensual pro-inflammatory immune signature according to a recent meta-analysis]; The role of the intensity of the viral load in the pathogenesis of chronic arthralgia (> J90) and their immune signature remain to be determined, the latter being rather nonspecific, according to studies conducted in Reunion, Italy or Singapore. These elements justify the interest of a GWAS in the Chikungunya to identify new avenues and mechanistic hypotheses likely to explain the chronic arthralgia characteristic of the disease.

A mobile suitcase laboratory for EBOV point-of-care (POC) detection at Ebola treatment centers was successfully implemented in Guinea during the large Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West-Africa 2014-2015. It was shown that isothermal amplification (Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA)) could be efficiently used to test suspect EVD cases and local teams were trained in and successfully deployed with this fast method. In the frame of this project we want to train teams in DRC and expand RPA testing capacity to the differentials recommended by the WHO. Existing RPA assays for all parameters will be included into a multistrip for simultaneous use. This will be integrated with a simple biosafe extraction method. Implementing this approach and testing in the ongoing EVD outbreak will provide teams in DRC with response capacity for future EVD outbreaks.