SWEtick - a Prospective Multicenter Study of Tick-borne Diseases in Sweden

Anna J Henningsson

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Tick-Borne Diseases

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06781008

EPM 2022-05330-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the SWEtick project is to increase the knowledge of the various clinical presentations of emerging tick-borne diseases (eTBD), to assess their importance for human health, to develop and validate laboratory methods for diagnosis of eTBD, and to develop recommendations for knowledge-driven management of patients with suspected eTBD within the Swedish healthcare system.

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1+ year old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria in TBD and Non-TBD groups:

• Clinical suspicion of tick-borne disease (physician's assessment based on medical history, symptoms, clinical findings and sometimes laboratory results)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Incapacitated to understand the study information and make decisions (adults and adolescents >15 years)

Trial design

500 participants in 5 patient groups

TBD

Description:

Patients with confirmed tick-borne disease

Non-TBD

Description:

Patients investigated for suspected tick-borne disease but diagnosed with another condition (tick-borne disease excluded)

Control group CNS

Description:

Patients obtaining spinal anasthesia in conjunction with knee or hip replacement surgery due to arthrosis

Control group arthritis

Description:

Patients with autoinflammatory joint disease

Control group healthy

Description:

Blood donors