NCT01597687

Pertussis Infection in Adolescents and Adults With Prolonged Cough

Bordetella Pertussis Infection Among Adolescents and Adults With Prolonged Cough

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 337 (actual)
• Sponsor: GlaxoSmithKline · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to determine the burden of pertussis infection among adolescents and adults with prolonged cough in four Asian countries, namely Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. This study also aims to assess the health economic (HE) impact of pertussis.

Detailed description

Data from this cross-sectional study will be useful in reviewing the need for introduction of booster doses of pertussis vaccines in adolescent and adult population in Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. This study will enrol patients with prolonged cough of 2 weeks or more and detect pertussis with serological tests in order to estimate the prevalence of pertussis infection among such patients. No vaccine will be administered during this study.

Conditions

• Pertussis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Blood collection	1 blood sample will be collected from each subject.
OTHER	Data collection	Quality of Life and HE questionnaires.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-06-20
• Primary completion: 2013-05-02
• Completion: 2013-05-02
• First posted: 2012-05-14
• Last updated: 2019-08-09
• Results posted: 2019-08-09

Locations

7 sites across 3 countries: Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand