Active clinical trials for "Communicable Diseases"

This retrospective analysis of medical records is to identify risk factors for treatment failures in fracture-associated infections (FAI) at the University Hospital Basel.

The overall objective of this investigation is to understand the patient response to a robotic platform used to facilitate telehealth triage in the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the manner in which emergency department triage is completed. Attempts at cohorting individuals with potential COVID-19 disease in order to prevent disease transmission to healthcare workers and minimize the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) have renewed interest in telemedical solutions as a method to triage and manage individuals with COVID-19. This investigation deploys a legged robotic platform to facilitate agile, highly mobile telemedicine to manage COVID-19 patients in the emergency department. The primary objective is to measure the patient response to interacting with these systems.

This cross-sectional study will screen out hepatitis D virus-infected patients in HBsAg-positive people. Observe and describe the prevalence of hepatitis D infection among HBsAg positive people. The provinces of China are divided into 5 geographical areas (North, South, East, West and Central) to recruit patients according to the population density of each area. After statistical calculation, the total number of population needed is 3808.

Study of COVID-19 seroprevalence in precarious population living in shelters of Samusocial de Paris and in staff working in these centers during COVID-19 epidemic.

The oral cavity is particularly susceptible to viral infection with several viruses such as herpes simplex virus, cytomegalovirus and Zika virus because of its structures, especially salivary glands and soft tissues Moreover, oral mucosa can be affected by secondary pathological process of a bacterial or fungal nature due to viral immunosuppression. The oral cavity could be considered a "biological barometer" of both viral infection and viral immunosuppression advancement .

The medical charts of all COVID-19 cases (n=1200) from 17 long-term care facilities in Montreal, Canada will be reviewed, to compare patients who survived to patients who did not survive. Through multilevel logistic regression, the risk of death will be estimated for institutional predictors of mortality, while controlling for individual risk factors. Individual covariates include clinical features (age, sex, Charlston comorbidity index, SMAF autonomy score, severity criteria) and medical treatments (IV fluids, anticoagulation, oxygen, regular opiates, corticosteroids). Aggregate covariates include epidemiological data (attack rates, timing of outbreak) and institutional characteristics (number of beds, air exchange per hour, presence of a dedicated COVID-19 unit at the time of outbreak, staff compliance to infection control measures, staff infection rates, understaffing, proportion of semi-private rooms, proportion of wandering wards and other special units).

This is a prospective observational study using a mobile study platform (app) that is designed for use on Android phones. Study participants will provide baseline demographic and medical information and report symptoms of respiratory infection on a weekly basis using the app. Participants will also report use of prevention techniques on the weekly survey. Mobility data will be collected passively using the sensors on the participant's smartphone, if the participant has granted the proper device permissions. The overall goals of the study are to track spread of coronavirus-like illness (CLI), influenza-like illness (ILI) and non-specific respiratory illness (NSRI) on a near-real time basis and identify specific behaviors associated with an increased or decreased risk of developing these conditions.

Sulopenem etzadroxil/probenecid is available to clinicians through an Expanded Access Program for the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections due to quinolone nonsusceptible uropathogens after an initial course of effective intravenous therapy. The investigational product may be requested by sending an email to the Sponsor (EAProgram@iterumtx.com), as listed on the Reagan Udall EAP Navigator website (https://navigator.reaganudall.org/company-directory/i).

Prospective, multi-center, observational, blinded study, enrolling pediatric and adult subjects. Eligible ED\Urgent care and hospital admitted patients with symptoms consistent with acute bacterial or viral infection and healthy subjects will be recruited according to the eligibility criteria. Each participant will undergo a thorough investigation upon recruitment that includes documenting clinical, radiological, laboratory and microbiological information for determining their health status. Follow-up data will be collected via a phone call. Diagnostic performance of the MeMed BV™ Test for differentiating bacterial from viral infection will be assessed using an expert adjudication comparator method. The study will be run in a blinded fashion: site personnel will be blinded to the comparator method outcomes, and the expert panel will be blinded to the results of the index test. Results of the index test will not be revealed to the attending clinician and so will not influence patient management.

Lung ultrasound has been used to help diagnose COVID-19 as an alternative to CT scanning and chest X-ray. CT scanning is onerous and there are difficulties taking critically unwell patients there as well as decontamination issues. Chest X-ray misses up to 40% of COVID diagnoses. Although lung ultrasound can diagnose, the investigators do not know how long these lung ultrasound changes last. The investigators would like to follow up patients to characterise the pattern of changes and how long they last. This is particularly important given a potential second surge of COVID-19 is looming and the investigators would like to know if lung ultrasound changes are new or old in patients presenting during this second wave and in the future.