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The correlation between culture of the nasopharyngeal swab, the nose swab, swab from a handkerchief and a handkerchief directly in children with an upper respiratory tract infection

The objective is determine the correlation between the outcome of the cultures of the nasopharyngeal swab, the nose swab, the swab from a handkerchief and the handkerchief.

Experimental human malaria infection after immunization with Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites under chloroquine prophylaxis.

Primary objective: To investigate whether CPS immunization confers protection to a blood stage challenge.Secondary objectives: • To study and compare parasitemia after challenge between study groups• To analyze and compare the immune responses…

the Application of an Electronic Nose in the Early detection of Aspergillosis II

1. To establish whether serial exhaled breath analysis using eNose can detect invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with prolonged chemotherapy induced neutropenia (neutrophil counts <0.5 x 10^9 for more than 7 days).2. To establish…

Comparison of novel assays for the molecular detection and quantification of bacteria in patients with bloodstream infections

To evaluate molecular assays for the detection and quantification of bacterial DNA in blood of patients with bacteraemia. Objectives are to determine the diagnostic performance of five molecular assays for the detection of bacteraemia in patients…

A study of more time-efficient and cost-effective pre-exposure rabies vaccination schedules to secure timely adequate protection prior to military deployment

1. To reduce the time required for pre-exposure rabies vaccination of military personnel2. To reduce costs of pre-exposure rabies vaccination of military personnel 3. To obtain a non-inferior immune response to a shortened, low-dosed scheme compared…

Community Acquired Pneumonia: Outcome, Quality of Life and Immune Status

The aim of this study is to investigate immune response to pneumococcal vaccination in patients after community acquired pneumonia with S. pneumoniae compared to pneumonia patients with another pathogen.

A Study Into The Diagnostic Properties Of A New Device For Rapid Bedside Testing Of Infection In Chronic Wounds: The INFACT 2.0 study

The primary objective of the study is to determine sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value of the enzyme analyses (myeloperoxidase, human neutrophil elastase and lysozyme) with wound biopsies as the gold standard.…

A multi-center, prospective, blinded validation study to assess the accuracy of a host-response based diagnostics for distinguishing between bacterIal and viral etiology in pediatric patients with lower respiratory tract infections and fever without source

To externally validate the accuracy of a host-response based diagnostics for differentiating between bacterial and viral etiology in pediatric patients aged 2 to 60 months with LRTI or FWS.

Donor feces infusion for first episode of Clostridium difficile infection in patients at risk for recurrent infection

The primary objective of this study is to investigate whether FMT after antibiotic therapy is more effective than conventionalantibiotic therapy alone in patients with a first episode of CDI.

Safety and protective efficacy of BCG vaccination against controlled human malaria infection

The primary objective is to determine the safety and tolerability BCG vaccination followed by controlled human malaria infection; and to determine the protective efficacy BCG vaccination against a controlled human malaria infection.

Human Exposure to RhinOvirus * Effect of a plant-based polysaccharide food supplement on upper respiratory symptoms

This study is designed to test if consumption of a vegetable extract as a food ingredient improves resistance to an experimental respiratory tract infection with RV16 in healthy volunteers.Primary Objective: * To test and quantify the effect of the…

Fluids in mechanically ventilated children with acute infectious lung disease: how dry should they be?

This research project aims to determine the feasibility of setting up a randomized controlled trial to study the effects of different fluid management protocols on the outcome of mechanically ventilated pediatric patients with acute infectious lung…

Identification and characterization of the latent HIV-infected reservoir in long-term anti-retroviral therapy (ART) suppressed patients

To identify and quantify the HIV reservoir in T-cell subsets of patients who have been on ART for almost 20 years.

A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, single-centre phase IIb trial as part of the EU-funded UNISEC project to assess the immunogenicity and safety of different formulations and dosing regimens of FLU-v vaccine administered subcutaneously in healthy adults aged 18-60 years.

To investigate the safety of the vaccination and the immune responses generated by the different formulations and dosing regimens of FLU-v in healthy adults.

Controlled Human Malaria Infection study to assess gametocytaemia and mosquito transmissibility in participants challenged with Plasmodium falciparum by sporozoite challenge to establish a model for the evaluation of transmission-blocking interventions

Primary objectives:1) To evaluate the safety of CHMI-trans protocols in healthy malaria-naïve volunteers challenged with Plasmodium falciparum by sporozoite challenge and blood stage challenge. 2) To assess gametocyte infectiousness for Anopheles…

Evaluation of measuring viral loads in self-sampled dried blood spots

The objectives of this study are: 1) To assess the user friendliness of the DBS self-sampling technique.2) To assess the quality of ssDBS.3) To estimate the agreement between viral loads in ssDBS and laboratory spotted DBS (labDBS).

Observational multi-center, prospective study to develop a novel multi-parametric diagnostic model for hospitalized patients and patients on the Emergency Department presenting with lower respiratory tract infections and/ or sepsis.

To develop a novel multi-parametric diagnostic model for the management of patients with LRTI and/or sepsis that will be based on novel pathogen- and host-related factors.

Long-term StaphyloCoccus aureus decolonizAtion in patients on home parentRal nutRition: a randomized multicEnter tRial.

To identify the most effective and safe long-term S. aureus carriage decolonization strategy in HPN patients. Ultimately this willlead to less antimicrobial resistance, less catheter removals and lower mortality rates. Also, other chronic…

Safety and protective efficacy of chemoprophylaxis and sporozoite immunization with Plasmodium falciparum NF135 against homologous and heterologous challenge infection in healthy volunteers in the Netherlands

Primary Objective: To determine the safety and tolerability of NF135.C10 sporozoite immunization under chemoprophylaxisSecondary Objectives:• To determine the dose-dependent protective efficacy of NF135.C10 CPS-immunization against homologous…

Controlled Human Malaria Infection study to assess gametocytaemia and mosquito transmissibility in participants challenged with Plasmodium falciparum by sporozoite challenge to establish a model for the evaluation of transmission-blocking interventions

Primary objectives:1) To evaluate the safety of four different CHMI-trans protocols in healthy malaria-naïve volunteers challenged with Plasmodium falciparum by sporozoite challenge. 2) To determine the best CHMI-trans protocol for induction of…