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Clinical trialNCT00148733CompletedPhase 2/PHASE3Interventional

CHIZAP: Community- and Health Facility-Based Intervention With Zinc as Adjuvant Therapy for Childhood Pneumonia

SponsorCentre For International HealthEnrollment2,628Pneumonia
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Summary

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The aim of the study described is to measure the degree with which zinc given as adjunct therapy to standard antibiotic treatment during childhood pneumonia reduces the risk of treatment failure and the duration of the illness.
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Investigators

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  • Halvor Sommerfelt, MD PhD

    Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, 5021 Bergen, Norway

    Study Director
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  • Palle Valentiner-Branth, MD PhD

    Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark

    Principal Investigator
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  • Prakash S Shrestha, MD Professor

    Child Health Research Project, Department of Child Health, Institute of Medicine, Maharajganj

    Study Director
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  • Ramesh K Adhikari, MD Dean

    Child Health Research Project, Department of Child Health, Institute of Medicine, Maharajganj

    Study Chair
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  • Tor A Strand, MD PhD

    Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, 5021 Bergen, Norway

    Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

Nepal
  • Siddhi Memorial Hospital (smh),bhelukhel, Bhimsensthan

    Bhaktapur, Nepal

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Zinc
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 Jan 2004
Primary completion
31 Jan 2008
Completion
31 Jan 2008
Last update posted
16 Mar 2022
Registered enrollment
2,628
Registry id
NCT00148733
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.