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Basic Information
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RECRUITING
800 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2022-01-20
2026-09-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Over 300 million people worldwide are infected with a deadly fungal infection, with 25 million at high risk of death or blindness. Population and disease demographics are used to calculate the worldwide burden of fungal diseases (age, gender, HIV infection, asthma, etc).
Given the growing number of immunocompromised individuals especially among hospitalized patients who are at increased risk for invasive fungal infections, fungal illnesses require more attention than ever before. The importance of fungal diseases contributing to worldwide morbidity and mortality is emphasized. To assess the burden of these diseases more precisely, long-term, sustainable monitoring systems for fungal diseases, as well as better noninvasive and reliable diagnostic methods, are required.
Even though most deaths from fungal illnesses are preventable, they are still a neglected topic by public health authorities. Other health issues, such as asthma, AIDS, cancer, organ transplantation, and corticosteroid therapy, can result in serious fungal infections. Antifungal therapy can be started right away if a correct diagnosis is made early. Recent global estimates have found 3,000,000 cases of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis, \~223,100 cases of cryptococcal meningitis complicating HIV/AIDS, \~700,000 cases of invasive candidiasis, \~500,000 cases of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, \~250,000 cases of invasive aspergillosis, \~100,000 cases of disseminated histoplasmosis, over 10,000,000 cases of fungal asthma and \~1,000,000 cases of fungal keratitis occur annually.
2. Knowledge gap:
Currently, there is no ongoing national surveillance system to detect invasive fungal pathogens or serious health threats. Hence, there is inadequate data on the burden, types, and diversity of fungal species in particular among hospitalized patients in Bangladesh. Some noteworthy issues affecting the proper diagnosis of invasive fungal pathogens in Bangladesh are an inadequate number of trained laboratory personnel to diagnose fungal diseases, only a few healthcare facilities performing fungal culture, insufficient awareness about severe fungal infections, lack of prioritization for fungal disease surveillance in healthcare delivery, lack of understanding about utilization of surveillance data to guide diagnosis and treatment, lack of antifungal drug stewardship and diagnostic stewardship and significant logistical challenges to ensure adequate biosecurity for diagnosis of and prevention against severe fungal infections.
Relevance:
Investigators need to take the necessary steps that will gradually lead to the establishment of a national surveillance system for invasive fungal pathogens, increase the generation of country-representative fungal surveillance data, improve surveillance data usage and reporting, and enhance IPC activities in Bangladesh.
Objectives:
To identify hospitalized patients infected with invasive fungal pathogens.
Description of the research project:
Methods:
This will be an exploratory descriptive study designed to conduct surveillance for the identification of invasive fungal pathogens among hospitalized patients in Bangladesh at two tertiary care acute-level hospitals.
The primary outcomes to be measured in this study:
The proportion of laboratory-identified invasive fungal pathogens among hospitalized patients.
Conditions
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Study Design
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COHORT
OTHER
Study Groups
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child
identification and management of invasive fungal pathogen
Invasive Fungal disease surveillance
Management of invasive fungal infection according to pathogen identification and susceptibility report.
adult
identification and management of invasive fungal pathogen
Invasive Fungal disease surveillance
Management of invasive fungal infection according to pathogen identification and susceptibility report.
Interventions
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Invasive Fungal disease surveillance
Management of invasive fungal infection according to pathogen identification and susceptibility report.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
1. Admitted/hospitalized patients of any age and gender in tertiary-level acute care hospitals AND
2. Having any of the following co-morbid immunosuppressive conditions or risk factors for healthcare-associated fungal infections such as:
* Chronic lung conditions including asthma, COPD
* Hemodialysis patients,
* diabetes,
* Patients receiving chemotherapy or immunosuppressive drugs (e.g. corticosteroids, immunosuppressive drugs among organ transplant recipients), for ≥7 days
* Patients with AIDS
* Patients at risk of healthcare-associated infections (e.g., Patients under postoperative care, having a urinary catheter, with tracheal intubation, under ventilatory support, secured with intravenous (IV) cannula, any other invasive procedures, etc.)
* Hospitalized Patients under prolonged injectable antibiotic treatment (\>7 days)
* Prolonged hospitalization more than 7 days.
* History of taking steroids or antibiotics for more than 2 weeks prior to hospitalization
AND
3. Patients or caregivers providing consent
* 0 to 59-month-old children of either sex admitted in hospital with any illness.
* Have features of sepsis/pneumonia (based on clinical features below)
And any of the following criteria:
* Those who will fail to respond to injectable antibiotics or both 1st and 2nd line antibiotics (1st line- inj. Ampicillin plus gentamicin, 2nd line- inj. Ceftriaxone plus levofloxacin/gentamicin as per icddr,b hospital protocol)
* Any child with SAM or h/o recent measles or any condition that may induce immune suppression plus fail to respond to injectable antibiotics/ 1st line antibiotics (1st line antibiotics- inj. Ampicillin +inj. Gentamicin)
* Those who will develop late-onset hospital-associated infection (LOHAI)
* Any child who will require ICU care for more than 7 days
* Develop extensive thrush after taking long-term injectable antibiotics
* History of taking steroids or antibiotics for more than 2 weeks prior to hospitalization
Exclusion Criteria
* Not willing to give consent
0 Months
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
FED
Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research
OTHER
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Sayeeda Huq, MBBS,MIPH
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh
Locations
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International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)
Dhaka, , Bangladesh
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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Other Identifiers
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PR-21142
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id