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NCT04368260

Clinical Validation of New Injection Molded Flocked Nasopharyngeal Swabs in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Completed NA Results posted Last updated 17 February 2022
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Control swab in COVID19 in 40 participants. Completed in 1 August 2020.

Timeline
24 April 2020
Primary endpoint
1 August 2020
1 August 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsorUniversity of Virginia
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationnon randomized
Designparallel
Maskingnone
Primary purposeother
Enrollment40
Start date24 April 2020
Primary completion1 August 2020
Estimated completion1 August 2020
Sites1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

University of Virginia

Who can join

Adults 0 to 99, any sex, with COVID19. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Results — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Per-arm endpoint measurements with 95% confidence intervals where reported. Source: trial results section.

Number of Subjects for Which the Prototype Swab and the Control Swab Provide the Same COVID-19 PCR Result Primary · at time of enrollment

Both the prototype and control nasopharyngeal swabs will be utilized in each subject. The rate of agreement between the swabs will be determined by the number of subjects for which both swabs provide the same COVID-19 PCR result.

Positive Sample
GroupValue95% CI
Control Swab18
Prototype Swab17
Negative Sample
GroupValue95% CI
Control Swab22
Prototype Swab23

Sponsor's own description

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has resulted in an international shortage of the nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs used to collect sample for virological testing. This shortage has become a crisis as testing capacity is growing, and threatens to become the bottleneck at University of Virginia Health System and in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as it already is in other testing centers. To resolve this crisis, a team in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratories at University of Virginia Medical Center has been working closely with biomedical engineers in the University of Virginia (UVA), School of Engineering and with high volume domestic manufacturers developing injection molded polypropylene flocked nylon NP swab. This prototype will be tested for non-inferiority relative to existing, already validated NP swabs ("control swab") for purposes of molecular microbiology: i.e. the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests used for virological testing for SARS-CoV-2. Specifically, the nasopharynx of patients with Covid-19 and patients under investigation (PUI) for Covid-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, will be swabbed using a prototype swab and a control swab (the standard of care swab), and test for concordance of SARS-CoV-2. In all cases the swab will be transported in validated FDA cleared viral transport medium (VTM) as per standard operating procedure at University of Virginia Medical Center.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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