Official Title
The All Ireland Infectious Diseases Cohort Project - AIID Cohort Project
Brief Summary

The All-Ireland Infectious Diseases (AIID) Cohort is a multicentre, prospective,longitudinal observational cohort that enrols consecutive adult subjects attendingparticipating institutions for infectious disease services. This is an ongoingprospective observational cohort of unlimited duration.

Detailed Description

The All-Ireland Infectious Diseases cohort study (AIID Cohort) is enrolling patients at a
number of Irish Hospitals with infectious diseases, including Covid-19. The AIID Cohort
is a multicentre, prospective, longitudinal, observational cohort that enrols consecutive
adult subjects (>18 years old) attending hospitals services for management of infections.

Subjects provide consent for use of routine clinical and laboratory data for research.
All data is collected by a combination of retrospective medical note review and
extraction of data from electronic health records. At a minimum, the following data items
are to be collected at enrolment and subsequent clinic visits:

1. Demography and basic information (e.g. date of birth, gender, country of origin,
ethnicity, anthropometric assessments, and reasons for the attendance, date or year
for disease diagnosis and transmission risk.

2. Laboratory data: Relevant routine virological (including genotyping) and
immunological data for characterisation of the HIV infection, TB, hepatitis C,
COVID-19 and other relevant co-infections will also be collected as well as other
relevant clinical routine data on tolerability and safety (i.e., renal, liver,
lipids)

3. Medical treatment: All medications, including start-and stop dates and reason for
discontinuation, adherence. Concomitant medical treatment related to co-infections
and co-morbidities.

4. Clinical events: hospitalisation, diseases specific relevant active and previous
diagnosis (e.g., AIDS and non-AIDS events, including comorbidities).

In addition, subjects are asked to provide biological samples for up to five occasions
every six months for bio-banking for host profiling and pathogen bio-repository. To
provide flexibility for participants around requirements for fasting or scheduling,
participants may be asked to attend to provide samples for biobanking outside of routine
scheduled clinic visits. These stored samples provide the opportunity for future research
studies investigating host factors associated with the response to infection.

The AIID Cohort is approved by local institutional review boards and all participants
provide written, informed consent. Data and samples within the AIID Cohort are accessed
through standardised Data Access Guidelines and all approved Data Access Requests are
approved by the local Ethics Committee.

Recruiting
Infectious Disease
Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion criteria:

- ≥ 18 years of age patients attending clinical services of participating institutions
with issues related to infectious diseases.

- Willing and able to provide informed consent or

- Provide deferred assent if an incapacitated or unconscious patient is unable to
provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria:

- Patients under 18 years of age

- Patients with learning disabilities, mental illness, or dementia

Eligibility Gender
All
Eligibility Age
Minimum: 18 Years ~ Maximum: 100 Years
Countries
Ireland
Locations

Cork University Hospital
Cork 2965140, Ireland

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda
Drogheda 2964661, Ireland

St Vincent's University Hospital, Ireland
Dublin 2964574, Ireland

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Dublin 2964574, Ireland

Beaumont Hospital
Dublin 2964574, Ireland

Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin
Dublin 2964574, Ireland

St James's Hospital
Dublin 2964574, Ireland

St Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny
Kilkenny 2963398, Ireland

Wexford General Hospital
Wexford 2960964, Ireland

Contacts

Aoife Cotter, PhD
aoife.cotter@ucd.ie

Alan Macken
alan.macken@ucd.ie

Patrick Mallon, PhD, FRCPI, Principal Investigator
UCD

University College Dublin
NCT Number
Keywords
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Covid-19
Viral hepatitis
Skin and soft tissue infections
Bone infection
MeSH Terms
Communicable Diseases
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
COVID-19
Soft Tissue Infections