NCT03289663.
Trial name or title | Effectiveness study of new generation bednets in the context of conventional insecticide resistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Net‐PBO) |
Methods | Cluster‐randomized trial |
Participants | 1680 participants, 0‐10‐year‐old subjects in 30 villages |
Interventions | Control: bed net treated with pyrethroid only Intervention: bed net treated with both pyrethroid and PBO |
Outcomes | Incidence rate of laboratory confirmed clinical cases of Malaria (time frame: participants will be actively followed up for 12 months and any suspected case of clinical malaria will immediately lead to microscopy and RDT for confirmation.) Microscopy to confirm the diagnosis of malaria sporozoite rate (time frame: Anopheles mosquitoes will be captured every 3 months during 1 year), sporozoite detection by ELISA to determine infectivity of Anopheles |
Starting date | 2 October 2017 |
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Abbreviations: ELISA: enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay; PBO: piperonyl butoxide