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First received: March 30, 2023

Clinical Trial: Cough Capture as a Portal Into the Lung

Study Status: Completed

Recruit Status: RECRUITING

Condition: Lung Diseases

Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL


Official Title: Cough Capture as a Portal Into the Lung-ICTR Pilot

Brief Summary: Background: The lung is a privileged organ; blood does not reflect most lung processes well, if at all.Therefore, for population scale diagnostics, the investigator team is developing non-invasive portals to the lung, for eventual early detection/risk assessment and diagnostic purposes.However, large macromolecules are not likely suspended nor readily detected in the breath.In particular, genomic DNA in the breath condensate (EBC) is very sparse, and where present, generally highly fragmented, not readily…

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