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Clinical trialNCT01112956CompletedObservational

Serologic Assays for the Diagnosis of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2

SponsorCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEnrollment2,500Genital Herpes
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purposes of this study are: * To determine the accuracy of commercially available serologic assays in diagnosing patients with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2); * To assess the sensitivity and specificity of the commerical assays using HSV-2 western blot as the "gold standard" in a diverse patient population; * To develop testing strategies and recommendations for screening asymptomatic populations for HSV-2.
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Investigators

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Sites

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

United States
  • John Hopkins University

    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • New York University School of Medicine

    New York, New York, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

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

Start
31 Jul 2009
Primary completion
31 Dec 2010
Completion
28 Feb 2011
Last update posted
23 Mar 2011
Registered enrollment
2,500
Registry id
NCT01112956
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 4 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.