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HPV Infection and Genital Microecology of Childbearing-age Female in China: A Cohort and Multicenter Study

HPV Infection and Genital Microecology of Childbearing-age Female in China: A Cohort and Multicenter Study

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04694495
Enrollment
7500
Registered
2021-01-05
Start date
2020-11-12
Completion date
2024-12-31
Last updated
2025-06-27

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Conditions

Papillomavirus Infections, Sexual Transmitted Disease, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

Brief summary

The purpose of this study to access the relations between genital microecology, HPV infection and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia of childbearing-age female in China

Detailed description

The volunteers will be recruited from the women who come to the hospital to do the thinprep cytologic test. After being informed about the potential risks, each volunteer giving written informed consent will be asked to complete a questionnaire. Then, cervical and vaginal swabs and cervical exfoliated cells will be taken from each volunteer to perform 16S rRNA gene sequencing microecology assessment on cervical secretions and detection and genotyping of HPV and pathogens of sexually transmitted diseases. If there is something abnormal with the diagnostic outcomes in the previous examinations, according to the doctor's judgement, those volunteer will be asked to undergo a vaginoscope and a cervical biopsy to evaluate the grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. After six months since the entry, each volunteer will be asked to go back to each research center to do the same sampling and examination as previously did in entry.

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST16S rRNA gene sequencing of cervical secretions

1. 16S rRNA gene sequencing of vaginal secretions: using NGS technology to assess the microbiota of the vaginal secretions 2. Microecology assessment of vaginal secretions: morphology test, functional assessment and Nugent score assessment of the vaginal secretions are included. 3. Genotyping of HPV and detection of sexually transmitted diseases pathogens based on the cervical exfoliated cells 4. Thinprep cytologic test of cervical exfoliated cells: to evaluate the grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

Sponsors

Peking University First Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
The Affiliated Hospital Of Guizhou Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER
Hainan General Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
LanZhou University
CollaboratorOTHER
Lianyungang Hospital Affiliated Bengbu Medical College
CollaboratorOTHER
General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER
Jinan Central Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
Tibet Autonomous Region People's Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
The Affiliated Hospital Of Southwest Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER
Anhui Provincial Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER_GOV
The First People's Hospital of Zunyi
CollaboratorOTHER
The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER_GOV
First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University
CollaboratorOTHER
Zhuhai Center for Maternal and Child Health Care
CollaboratorOTHER
First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER
Qinghai Red Cross Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
Changzhi People's Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
Shanghai East Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER
Huizhou Municipal Central Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER
Yuebei People's Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
The Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
CollaboratorOTHER
Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
CollaboratorOTHER
Henan Provincial People's Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER
Shandong Provincial Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER_GOV
First Hospital of China Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER
Gansu Provincial Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
Zhujiang Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to 50 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Female of childbearing age conducting thinprep cytologic test * Having an experience of sexual intercourse * Not during the menstrual period * No sexual intercourse or vaginal medication or vaginal flushing in 3 days before sampling

Exclusion criteria

* Within 8 weeks of pregnancy or postpartum * Having had tumors in reproductive tract * Having had HPV bivalent, tetravalent or nine-valent vaccination * Having received treatment for anti- HPV or other STDs pathogens infection * Having had hysterectomy, cervical surgery and pelvic radiotherapy * Having used broad-spectrum antibiotics, probiotics or vaginal suppositories in reproductive tract within 1 month

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
alteration of genital microecology from baseline at month 6basline and month 6Genital microecology includes measurements of cervical microbiota, HPV and other sexually transmitted diseases pathogens infection status, conditions of the vaginal secretion and the grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. As for cervical microbiota, the NGS technology will be used to sequence the 16s rRNA gene of the microbes in the cervical secretion of each volunteers. PCR will be used to detect HPV and other sexually transmitted diseases pathogens. As for the conditions of the vaginal secretion, methods such as manual microscopic inspection, gram stain and enzymology test will be used to do the measurement. Moreover, thinprep cytologic test of cervical exfoliated cells will be performed to evaluate the grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

Countries

China

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 5, 2026