NIH Guide: DETERMINATION OF PROTECTIVE LEVELS OF MATERNAL ANTIBODY AGAINST EARLYONSET INVASIVE GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL DISEASE IN NEONATES

DETERMINATION OF PROTECTIVE LEVELS OF MATERNAL ANTIBODY AGAINST EARLYONSET INVASIVE GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL DISEASE IN NEONATES

NIH GUIDE, Volume 23, Number 8, February 25, 1994

RFP AVAILABLE: NICHD-DESPR-94-06

P.T. 34

Keywords:

Immunotherapy

Infectious Diseases/Agents

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

plans to conduct a study that will recruit two groups of infants <7

days of age: infants who have developed invasive GBS (Type Ia, Ib,

II and III) disease ("cases"), and infants who have not developed

early onset GBS despite being born to GBS-colonized mothers

("controls"). GBS disease will be defined as an infection associated

with isolation of GBS from normally sterile sites, such as

cerebrospinal fluid and blood. A total of 240 cases and 960 controls

will be recruited from participating hospitals over a period of two

years. Cases will be identified by active laboratory-based

surveillance, and controls will be identified through a systematic

culturing of about five percent of parturient mothers in the

participating hospitals. To be eligible, both cases and controls

must be singleton births of at least 34 weeks' gestation, born to

mothers who have not received antibiotic treatment during pregnancy.

This Request for Proposals (RFP) for the detection of GBS is a new

acquisition. The release of the RFP will be on or about March 1, 1994

and proposals will be due 60 days thereafter.

INQUIRIES

A short-form version of the RFP will be provided first, which

includes only the Statement of Work and Evaluation Criteria to be

used for selection of the awardee. After examining this, a full-text

version of the RFP must be requested, in writing, for those

organizations interested in responding. Those organizations desiring

a copy of the above short-form RFP may send their written request to:

Mrs. Lynn Salo

Office of Grants and Contracts

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

6100 Building, Room 7A07

Bethesda, MD 20892

All requests must cite the RFP number above and include two self-

addressed mailing labels for the short-form and complete RFP. All

sources who consider themselves qualified are encouraged to submit a

proposal. This announcement does not commit the Government to

awarding a contract.

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