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A One Health Study of Monkeypox Human Infection

Central African Republic280 participantsStarted 2021-09-09

Plain-language summary

This multidisciplinary project aim to understand the epidemiology of the monkeypox in Central African Republic through the identification of the animal reservoir, the clinical and epidemiological description of the human outbreak, through an ethnological approach around risk factors of the disease and through an ecological approach of the ecological context of emergence, and the improvement of biological diagnosis.

Who can participate

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Human population in villages affected by monkeypox epidemics: patients who developed monkeypox and their contacts * Health care personnel (paramedics, nurses, doctors) who work or have worked in affected villages * Traditional healers, diviners * Members of villages affected by past monkeypox epidemics Exclusion Criteria: * area not accessible to investigation * refusal to participate * inability to obtain consent

What they're measuring

Proportion of monkeypox cases occuring following interhuman exposures

Timeframe: 36 months

Proportion of monkeypox cases occuring following zoonotic exposures

Timeframe: 36 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05058898

SponsorInstitut Pasteur

Sponsor typeINDUSTRY

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2023-12-31

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