Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 5:08 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 5:08 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00406627
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
Gender, minority and child inclusion: Males and females will be included in population-based village studies without regard to race or ethnic group. There is no reason to exclude pregnant women from population-based studies. There is no reason to exclude children from the village/town studies, and they are included. Younger children will be studied in the school surveys (with large numbers per locality) because they are important sentinels for ongoing filariasis transmission.
Eligibility for the cohort study: Subjects in household surveys with positive immunochromotography test, filarial antigen tests, and negative microfilaria thick blood smears and who took diethylcarbamazine and albendazole during the Egyptian Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis will be invited to participate in the study. Subjects must be residents of localities that have met the Basic Elimination criterion (community microfilaria prevalence by thick smear less than 1% or antigen prevalence rate less than 2%). Consenting subjects will be screened further by testing a sample of venous blood collected after 9 p.m. for microfilaremia by membrane filtration and by performing an ELISA to quantitate filarial antigenemia in serum. Eligible subjects will have no microfilaremia by smear and antigen levels \> 20 ng/ml.
Exclusion Criteria:
Exclusion of children less than 10 years of age from community studies of filarial antigen and microfilaria prevalence is justified because prevalence rates for these parameters are exceedingly low in young children in low transmission areas like Egypt.
Healthy Volunteers:
True
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
6 Years
Study:
NCT00406627
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00406627