New registry aims to track brain infection outcomes
NCT ID NCT07364539
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study is a registry that collects information from 520 patients diagnosed with central nervous system (CNS) infections, such as meningitis or encephalitis. Researchers will track how many patients survive to discharge. The goal is to better understand these rare but serious infections, not to test a new treatment.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 520 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Mar 2022
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2030
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
In the nine years since 2012, we have identified 260 patients with positive CSF tests. We assume that over the next 10 years we will register the same number of patients, for a total of 520 patients. With this sample size, the precision of the mortality estimate over the study period will be at worst ±4.3%, corresponding to half the 95% confidence interval (CI) of a 50% chance. If the mortality rate were 10%, the precision would be ±2.7%; if the mortality rate were 5%, the precision would be ±2%.
- Ages
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Children (under 18), adults (18 to 64) and older adults (65 and over)
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
* Pazients admitted to the Fondazione IRCSS Policlinico San Matteo * Diagnosis of bacterial meningitis, meningoencephalitis, bacterial CNS infection, viral CNS infection, viral encephalitis, brain abscess, or post-neurosurgical meningitis.
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia
RECRUITINGPavia, Italia, 27100, Italy
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