Environmental Surveillance (ES) for Polio and AMR Using the TaqMan Array Card

University of Virginia

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Polio

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03818477

21092

PR-18038 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will be used to develop a tool to streamline poliovirus environmental surveillance for the polio endgame and to provide a tool for detecting polio in places where there is no capacity to carry out the gold standard culture-based detection.

Full description

This environmental surveillance tool will also include antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes to describe resistome profile in environmental samples and to better inform us of the potential risks of exposure to these environments

Enrollment: 8,500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 4 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• birth-4 years of age
• reside in selected urban slums of Mirpur Dhaka, Bangladesh
• receiving bOPV immunization

Exclusion Criteria:

• parent unwilling to consent