An observational longitudinal pilot study to assess pharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in South Australian university students.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12617000233325

Enrollment

421

Registered

2017-02-14

Start date

2017-02-20

Completion date

2017-02-24

Last updated

2018-06-11

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Our pilot study will establish baseline carriage prevalence in approximately 500 first year university students. The findings will assist in a more refined estimation of sample size required for a cross sectional study of first year university students to be conducted in 2018 and 2019. It will also be used to validate study processes including delayed freezing of samples.

Interventions

An oropharyngeal swab will be collected from South Australian first year university students during orientation week in 2017 and repeated 3 months later. PorA nucleic acid testing (NAT) for Neisseria species will be conducted on each pharyngeal swab and used to estimate the carriage prevalence of all serogroups of N. meningitidis.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

17 Years to 25 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

South Australian first year university students between 17 to 25 years of age.

Exclusion criteria

Nil

Outcome results