💬In plain words
What the trial is, and whether it could suit you
Background:
* The Laboratory of Infectious Diseases (LID) Clinical Studies Unit (CSU) enrolls healthy volunteers into clinical studies to study infectious diseases.
* Viruses can be highly infectious and contagious. They cause considerable illness in the United States each year and a good example of this is influenza (the flu). The LID CSU performs clinical studies to learn about these viral infections and assist in the development of vaccines and treatments for the infections. These clinical studies include influenza "challenge studies" as well as natural history studies and phase I trials involving vaccines for viruses carried by mosquitos such as Zika or Dengue virus.
* In influenza challenge studies studies, doctors expose a person to a flu virus. Then they study the flu through the body's natural healing process. This information will help to find better ways to prevent the flu and
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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
* INCLUSION CRITERIA:
1. Greater than or equal to 18 and less than or equal to 65 years old, and have no significant health abnormalities
2. Willing to consider taking part in a future LID Clinical Studies Unit healthy volunteer study
3. A female participant is eligible for this study if she is any of the following:
* Of non-childbearing potential (i.e., women who have had a hysterectomy or tubal ligation or are post-menopausal, as defined by no menses in greater than or equal to 1 year)
* Of childbearing potential but agrees to practice effective contraception or abstinence (from heterosexual sex) for 4 weeks prior to enrolling into a spceific study and during the study.
NOTE: Acceptable methods of contraception may include one or more of the following: 1) male partner who is sterile prior to the female participant's entry into the study and is the sole sexual partner for the female participant; 2) implants of levonorgestrel; 3) injectable progestogen;, 4) an intrauterine device with a documented failure rate of less than 1percent; 5) oral contraceptives; or 6) double barrier methods including diaphragm or condom with a spermicide.
4\. Willing to have samples stored for future research
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
1. Self-reported history of any significant medical condition including but not limited to:
* Chronic pulmonary disease (such as asthma, emphysema)
* Chronic cardiovascular disease (cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, cardiac surgery, ischemic heart disease, known anatomic defects)
* Chronic medical conditions requiring close medical follow-up or hospitalization during the past 5 years (diabetes mellitus, renal dysfunction, hemoglobinopathies)
* Immunosuppression or cancer
* Neurological and neuro-developmental conditions (e.g., cerebral palsy, epilepsy, stroke, seizures)
* Drug and/or alcohol dependency and/or abuse
2. Any condition that, in the judgment of the Principal Investigator, is a contraindication to protocol participation or impairs the volunteer s ability to give informed consent
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