Clinical Research in Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Challenge of Implementing Good Clinical (Laboratory) Practices

Raffaella Ravinetto; Emilie Alirol; Yodi Mahendradhata; Suman Rijal; Pascal Lutumba; Moussa Sacko; Sayda El-Safi; Kruy Lim; Harry van Loen; Jan Jacobs; Rosanna W Peeling; Francois Chappuis; Marleen Boelaert

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004654

Clinical Research in Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Challenge of Implementing Good Clinical (Laboratory) Practices

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Nov 3;10(11):e0004654. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004654. eCollection 2016 Nov.

Authors

Raffaella Ravinetto^{1

2}, Emilie Alirol^{3

4}, Yodi Mahendradhata⁵, Suman Rijal⁶, Pascal Lutumba^{7

8}, Moussa Sacko⁹, Sayda El-Safi¹⁰, Kruy Lim¹¹, Harry van Loen¹, Jan Jacobs^{1

12}, Rosanna W Peeling¹³, Francois Chappuis¹⁴, Marleen Boelaert¹⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium.
² Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
³ Médecins Sans Frontières United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ Centre de Recherche Clinique, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal.
⁷ Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
⁸ Department of Tropical Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
⁹ Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique, Bamako, Mali.
¹⁰ University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
¹¹ Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
¹² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
¹³ Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.
¹⁴ Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland.
¹⁵ Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Humans
Laboratories / standards*
Neglected Diseases / diagnosis*
Tropical Medicine / standards*

Grants and funding

This work is part of the NIDIAG European research network (Collaborative Project), supported by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development, and demonstration under grant agreement no. 260260. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.