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Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

NCT number NCT02488980
Other study ID # A-9467
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase Phase 2
First received June 24, 2015
Last updated July 1, 2015
Start date May 2000
Est. completion date March 2003

Study information

Verified date June 2015
Source U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority United States: Food and Drug Administration
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This was a placebo controlled, randomised, double-blind, double-dummy study of the efficacy of weekly tafenoquine compared with weekly mefloquine or placebo in the chemosuppression of P. falciparum in Nyanza Province, western Kenya.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 306
Est. completion date March 2003
Est. primary completion date October 2000
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 18 Years to 55 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Healthy male or female volunteers who provided informed consent (a healthy volunteer was defined as one who was free of ailments that might cause difficulty in evaluating drug efficacy or adverse experiences).

- Subjects aged 18-55 years.

- Subjects planning to reside in the study area for the entire study duration of approximately 70 weeks

Exclusion Criteria:

- Subjects with positive parasitaemia following halofantrine treatment for radical cure.

- Subjects with any medical condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, made the subject unsuitable to enter the study.

- Subjects with personal or family history of seizures.

- Female subjects with a positive serum beta-HCG5 (tested during screening and within 48 hours of first drug administration and approximately monthly thereafter).

- Women who were pregnant or lactating or who in the opinion of the investigator were at risk of becoming pregnant.

- Subjects with clinically significant abnormalities (to include but not limited to abnormal hepatic or renal function) as determined by history, physical and routine blood chemistries and haematology values. Subjects who had demonstrated hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs especially to any other 8-aminoquinolines.

- Subjects unwilling to report for drug administration or blood drawing during the 70 week duration of the study.

- Subjects with G6PD deficiency.

- Subjects with laboratory guideline values for exclusion: haemoglobin <10 gm/dL, platelets <80,000/mm3, WBC <3000ul3, creatinine or ALT more than twice the upper limit of normal for age.

- Subjects with an abnormal ECG, particularly an extended QTc interval > 0.42 seconds.

- Subjects taking any other anti-malarial product, or who had taken an antimalarial drug other than halofantrine within the previous two weeks.

- Subjects who had received an investigational drug (a new chemical entity not registered for use) within 30 days or 5 half-lives whichever was the longer.

- Subjects with a history of psychiatric disorder.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Drug:
Tafenoquine
Tafenoquine 200 mg for three days followed by Tafenoquine 200 once a week for 24 weeks.
Mefloquine
Mefloquine 250 mg for three days followed by Mefloquine 250 once a week for 24 weeks.
Placebo
Placebo

Locations

Country Name City State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command SmithKline Beecham

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Prophylactic outcome defined by the subject having no positive smears. 24 Weeks No
Secondary Number of subjects with two consecutive positive smears. 24 Weeks No
Secondary Number of subjects with a single positive smear during the prophylactic treatment phase plus follow-up. 28 Weeks No
Secondary Number of subjects with two consecutive positive smears 28 Weeks No
Secondary Time to a single positive smear. 28 Weeks No
Secondary Time to two consecutive positive smears 28 Weeks No