Clinical trial NCT02625285: Validation of New G6PD Point of Care Tests Against Gold Standard Quantitative
Official title: Validation of New G6PD Point of Care Tests (Biosensors) Against Gold Standard Quantitative Spectrophotometry and Genotyping
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Validation
Biosensors
Genotyping
Lead sponsor: University of Oxford
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: PATH
First posted: 2015-12-09
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The total sample size will be 150 patients, using targeted enrollment to achieve a convenience sample of approximately 50 G6PD deficient volunteers (male and female), approximately 50 G6PD intermediate or heterozygous female volunteers, and the remaining will be G6PD-normal volunteers with a 1:1 male/female ratio.

Brief summary: This is a laboratory research to evaluate performances of quantitative POC G6PD tests (Biosensors) against gold standard quantitative laboratory based tests and genotyping.

Detailed description: Radical cure of P. vivax malaria can be achieved using large doses of primaquine which have shown to cause some degree of hemolysis even in subjects who tested normal by the conventional qualitative G6PD tests. Different regimens of drug might be more appropriate in subjects with intermediate G6PD activity which can be currently measured only in well equipped laboratories. Validation of new qualitative and quantitative point-of-care tests is essential to for safe deployment of standard and new radical cure regimens against Plasmodium vivax.

This study will evaluate performances of quantitative POC G6PD tests (Biosensors) against gold standard quantitative laboratory based tests and genotyping. Patients will be searched from the electronic record database to identify up to 150 patients with the following characteristics: approximately 50 G6PD-deficient men and women (however only a very small percent of deficients are homozygous women) approximately 50 G6PD-heterozygous women with intermediate activity, and approximately 50 G6PD-normal individuals and patients who meet the screening criteria will be contacted at their home by a clinic staff member. The home visitor will explain study details and invite to participate in the study. If the patients express interest in participating, they will be directed to visit the following month at the clinic where they usually receive care.

After signing the informed consent form, two blood samples will be withdrawn; one sample will be taken by finger-stick (200 µl) and one sample (0.5 ml) will be taken by arm venipuncture. The blood from capillary sample will be used to assess G6PD activity using the POC tests, CBC and laboratory based quantitative tests. The venous blood will be used for reference standard quantitative G6PD assays, Hb typing analysis, CBC and buffy-coat will be stored for DNA extraction for G6PD genotyping only; leftover blood will be discarded.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Subjects with age ≥ 18 years
* Subjects willing to participate and sign informed consent form
* Male and Female
* Previously tested G6PD deficient, G6PD normal and G6PD intermediate or heterozygous for G6PD variants at SMRU clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients with severe malaria or other severe or any acute illness
* Patients who received a blood transfusion in the last 3 months
* Patients who received primaquine in the past 1 month (this is to ensure that previous characterization of phenotype in the healthy subject has not been influenced by a recent hemolytic reaction)
* Patients who have not had a critical illness or received other hemolytic drugs (this is to ensure that previous characterization of phenotype in the healthy subject has not been influenced by a recent hemolytic reaction)

Primary outcomes:
measure: correlation in G6PD activity
timeFrame: at enrollment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: correlation in Hemoglobin levels
timeFrame: at enrollment
measure: Determine association between one or more quantitative POC G6PD test (Biosensor) and the flow cytometry-based G6PD test
timeFrame: at enrollment
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mae Sot
country: Thailand
facility: Shoklo Malaria Research Unit,
state: Tak
Study officials:
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