An observational study in Staphylococcus Aureus, sponsored by Medical Corps, Israel Defense Force. Status unknown at 1 site in Israel. Open to male participants aged 18 Years to 25 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2012-03-23.
Sponsored by Medical Corps, Israel Defense Force · Observational
The purpose of this study is to evaluate strategies to prevent Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections in soldiers during infantry training.
This study will be conducted on three different bases among groups of male recruits to IDF training base. They will provide nasal swabs to detect Staphylococcus aureus carriage in two time points: 1. before mixing and training in confined settings, reflecting carriage acquired before entering 2. After 14-30 days. All soldiers will be under surveillance for skin infection until the end of the training program.
273 studies on the registry are indexed under Staphylococcal Infections; 29 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 1,050 is above the median of 200 across 81 observational studies indexed under Staphylococcal Infections.
Browse Staphylococcal Infections studies →Medical Corps, Israel Defense Force is the lead sponsor of 33 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.
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the population of the study will be selected from infantry training bases in the IDF
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