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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to compare how well two different antibiotics, doxycycline (DOXY) and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX), work at curing uncomplicated skin and soft tissue infection (uSSTI) such as 1.Boils (pus in the skin, also known as abscesses and furuncles) or 2. Infections that appear only on the skin surface (called cellulitis and erysipelas) that have pus.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of a single intravenous (IV) infusion dose of dalbavancin, and to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a single dalbavancin IV infusion.
In Ethiopia, great majorities (95%) of households rely on solid biomass fuels such as wood, muck, crop residues, and charcoal burned in highly polluting stoves to meet the basic household energy needs with its severe health consequences due to emission of toxic indoor air pollutants. Correspondingly, household air pollution (HAP) from biomass fuel use is now estimated to be responsible for nearly 3.5 million premature deaths annually, with the highest disease burdens experienced by countries in sub-Saharan Africa. HAP ranks as the highest environmental risk factors to premature deaths globally and 2nd leading risk factor next to childhood underweight in most of sub-Saharan Africa countries as well as 3rd leading risk factor of disease next to childhood underweight, and suboptimal breastfeeding in Ethiopia. Usually prevention efforts aimed at reducing HAP and related health burdens have been focused on the use of energy efficient cookstoves. There is, however, rigorous lack of evidence in Ethiopia or in other similar settings whether it is possible to achieve adequate HAP reduction and improve health with locally made energy efficient baking stoves from a public health point of view. Particularly, the popular Ethiopian energy efficient "Injera" baking stove has not been researched through stove trial inquiry. Therefore, research studies are required in Ethiopia on health benefits achieved when households adopt energy efficient baking stoves. In view of that, cluster randomized controlled trial will be employed with experimental study design for one year to test the effectiveness of the Ethiopian improved "Injera" baking stove intervention on reducing HAP and childhood acute respiratory infection (ARI) through comparing equal size groups of children before and after part of households received an improved "Injera" baking stove. Accordingly, the proposed stove trial aims to address an important research gap by determining whether the Ethiopian improved "Injera" baking biomass stove intervention can adequately reduce HAP exposure to prevent childhood acute respiratory infection. With this objective, the proposed stove trial will test the hypothesis that there is a statistically significant difference in HAP levels and incidence of childhood ARI when using traditional versus improved "Injera" baking stove in Northwest Ethiopia
Optimal surgical therapy (debridement in chronic osteomyelitis; device exchange in patients with chronic prosthetic joint infection [PJI]) could be sometimes non-feasible, especially in the elderly population. Therefore, a medical therapy with oral prolonged suppressive antibiotic therapy (PSAT) seems to be an option to prevent recurrence and prosthesis loosening. Unfortunately, some patients are infected with resistant pathogens for which oral antibiotics are not suitable. Subcutaneous (SC) administration of injectable intravenous antibiotics as PSAT could be a convenient way to limit catheter-related complications and facilitate ambulatory care. However, there are few data concerning the development of resistance under subcutaneous prolonged treatment with betalactamine. The aim of this study is is just to constitute a biological collection from samples from the GUT microbiote in patients having a bone or joint infection treated by a suppressive subcutaneous antibiotherapy with betalactamine. Later analysis will be led on those samples to detect the acquisition of resistance or not.
This Phase I-II dose-finding trial to determine the optimal dose of intravenous (IV) injection dose of donor-derived cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) specific for CMV, EBV, BKV and Adenovirus. A maximum of 36 patients will be treated in up to 18 cohorts each of size 2, with the first cohort treated at the lowest dose level 1, all successive doses chosen by the EffTox method, and no untried dose level skipped when escalating. The scientific goal of the trial is to determine an optimal IV-CTL cell dose level among the three doses 1.0x107cells/m2, 2 x107cells/m2 and 5x107cells/m2., hereafter dose levels 1, 2, 3. Dose-finding will be done using the sequentially adaptive EffTox trade-off-based design of Thall et al.
Clarithromycin (CLA)、amoxicillin (AMO)、metronidazole (MET)、levofloxacin (LEV) and tetracycline (TET) are commonly used antibiotics for Helicobacter pylori (Hp) therapy. However, the efficacy of treatment for Helicobacter pylori infection has decreased due to increasing resistance to CLA, MET and LEV. Studies had reported that beside antibiotics resistance, other factors such as age, sex, underlying disease, etc. may also affect the treatment efficacy. In some cases, when the MIC values were beyond the breakpoint, H. pylori strains with lower MIC value had better eradication than the ones with higher MIC value. However, few study investigated the relationship between MIC values and treatment outcome. The investigators aimed to analyze the impact of influencing factors, especially minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) value, on the efficacy of different treatment regimens.
A study to evaluate F901318 (study drug) for the treatment of invasive fungal infections in patients lacking suitable alternative treatment options.
In the present study the dynamic changes of the intestinal microbiome are observed over a 4-week period in the different stages of the menstrual cycle in women at childbearing age. The focus is on how the dynamic changes of sex hormones during a menstrual cycle of women at childbearing age (with or without contraception) are related to microbiological colonization of the gut. In Addition the Expression of the β-glucuronidase by the bacteria will be investigated.
Continual surveillance of both community-acquired and nosocomial bloodstream infections for specific target organisms. Analysis of comorbidities, complications, bacterial resistance patterns, bacterial genomics (e. g. via WGS and MLST typing) for the determinants of clinical outcomes. The clinical outcomes are investigated both in the short-term (up until discharge) and the long-term (six months after index blood culture by standardized questionnaire). A predictive point-of-care score is to be developed based on these data to define high-risk patient populations requiring more intensive diagnostic and/or treatment regimens.
High-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) infection is a necessary condition in the occurence and development of cervical squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL) and cervical cancer. There are cases that high-grade SIL (HSIL) and stage IA1 cervical squamous cancer remain or reoccur, or even become more severe after conization. The infection situation of HR-HPV, which plays an important role in the prognosis of cervical lesion, should be consulted in the management and follw-up after conization. It is worthwhile making further study in the specific practical significance of the HR-HPV in the prognosis of cervical lesion, as well as the high-risk factors that influence the prognosis of HR-HPV.