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Filter by:RCT to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 16666 & Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 to significantly modify the frequency of clinical or bacteriological cure in women with non complicated acute cystitis who receive probiotics for 12 days compared with the frequency in women who receive placebo.
This is a phase I study that will assess the acquisition of immunity to Pf malaria over the course of 5 sequential Controlled Human Malaria Infections (CHMI) over 2-4 years, in 10 healthy adult participants. 10 subjects will initially be challenged with 5 uninfected mosquitoes (mock), followed by 5 challenges with 5 mosquitoes infected with drug sensitive, P. falciparum parasites (strain NF54) 2, 8, 14-20, 20-32, and 32-36 months later. For the final four infective CMHIs six additional immunologic malaria-naïve subjects will be enrolled and challenged as infectivity controls. If dropouts occur within the original 10 person cohort, and two or more CHMI remain, back-up replacement volunteers will be recruited to undergo successive CHMI with the core group. All volunteers (repeat CHMI subjects and infectivity controls) will be evaluated as part of an inpatient stay (or outpatient daily follow-up) to diagnose Pf malaria infection and treat with Coartem(R) (artemether/lumefantrine) or Malarone(R) (Atovaquone/proguanil). Daily observation will occur from Study Days 9-19 or until three-day directly observed therapy for P. falciparum infection is complete and two negative smears separated by a time interval >12 hours have been documented. A third negative smear >12 hours after the previous two daily smears will be documented to affirm malaria cure. Infectivity Controls enrolled as part of CHMI #5 will be treated based on concomitant us qPCR results. The repeat CHMI subjects will have additional outpatient visits days 1, 3, 5, and 7 after the challenge to obtain blood samples to monitor the development of immunity. The study is expected to last for 48 months and will include approximately 34 healthy male and female volunteers (10 active study volunteers and 18 naïve controls to confirm Pf infectivity during the 2nd -5th CHMI challenges) ages 18 to 50 years, inclusive, from the greater Baltimore community. The primary objective of this study is to determine whether protective immunity against parasite infection develops following repeat CHMI.
The clinical trial will investigate the effect of different formulations of ARA + 0.4% DHA in infant formula on plasma fatty acid status in healthy 6 months old infants supplemented for 6 months. A 6-month follow on phase will provide additional efficacy (e.g. infection rates, immune markers) and safety information in these 12-18 month old infants.
This project is a community-based randomized controlled trial designed to test the effectiveness of two point-of-use water treatment technologies to improve clean drinking water access, reduce enteropathogen burden, and improve child growth among children in Limpopo, South Africa.
Gut dysbiosis is an intestinal disorder that is characterized by accumulation of microbiota imbalance, host-microbiota crosstalk dysfunction and inflammation. As part of its clinical development, MaaT (Microbiota as a Therapy) Pharma is particularly interested in patients with Bone and Joint Infections (BJI). These patients are treated with antibiotics having significant consequences on their intestinal flora, causing intestinal discomfort, which can be manifested by diarrhea. MaaT Pharma wishes to carry out a clinical study, OSIRIS, in collaboration with Prof. Tristan Ferry, member and coordinator of CRIOAc (Centre de Référence des Infections Ostéo-Articulaires Complexes) Lyon, Center of Reference of Bone and Joint Infections (BJI). The objective of this study is to follow patients with treated BJI in order to characterize intestinal dysbiosis and the future relevance of an autologous Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (aFMT) intervention. To do this, patients will be monitored according to the current CRIOAc recommendations, with the aim of taking biological samples from patients at the same time as scheduled visits, routine monitoring patients. Only one additional consultation will be carried out 15 days after stopping the antibiotics in order to better evaluate the dysbiosis evolution. Thus biological samples (blood, stool, nasal, rectal) will be taken during the follow-up consultations over a period of 6 months.
There are lack of endoscopic criteria for diagnosing Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection by conventional white light imaging (WLI). Linked color imaging (LCI) is a newly developed endoscopy technique, which can diagnose mucosal lesions and H. pylori infection by enhancing color contrast of the mucosa. The aim of the study is to investigate the ability of LCI for diagnosing H. pylori infection compared with WLI.
Pressure ulcer represents a frequent clinical condition in patient with spinal cord injury or after prolonged Intensive Care Unit (ICU) stay. Osteomyelitis constitutes a severe complication with a poorly known management, and is associated with a high rate of relapse, leading to a high-burden in hospital bed-days, financial cost, surgical intervention, antibiotic use, morbidity and mortality, and nursing care. In our reference center for bone and joint infection management, the medical and surgical strategies are systematically discussed during pluridisciplinary meetings. Most patients benefit from a two-stage surgical strategy (debridement with initiation of vacuum-assisted closure therapy until reconstruction using muscular flap) with prolonged antimicrobial therapy. In this context, our study aims to evaluate this complex approach and to determine risk factors of treatment failure in order to improve patient management, focusing on optimization of empirical antimicrobial therapy after each surgical stage, delay between the two surgical stage, and duration of antimicrobial therapy.
Late diagnosed HIV-infected subjects show impaired immunological recovery resulting in a greater risk of clinical progression. Gut bacteria metabolism appears to impact immune recovery in HIV-infected subjects, and while nutritional interventions with prebiotics and probiotics seem to exert immunological effects, the clinical implications in this key population remain unknown. This is a pilot multicenter randomized placebo-controlled, double blind clinical trial in HIV-infected ART-naive subjects with <350 CD4 T cells/mm3 or AIDS. Participants will be randomized (1:1) to either the synbiotic nutritional supplement PMT25341 or placebo for 48 weeks, each in combination with first-line ART. Primary outcomes will be safety and immunological recovery. Secondary outcomes will include changes in fecal microbiota structure and plasma inflammatory markers.
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of skin cleansing and prophylactic antibiotics given to women undergoing a cesarean section for reducing the incidence of postpartum infectious morbidity and to assess potential maternal adverse effects and any impact on the infant.
Cryptococcal meningitis or "Crypto" is a life threatening fungal infection around the brain that requires hospitalization for treatment for 14 days and then continued therapy. Crypto causes 15-20% of HIV/AIDS-related deaths worldwide. However, this infection can be detected before one develops symptoms and becomes ill. People can be screened for infection by a blood test to detect "cryptococcal antigen," (called CrAg), which is part of the fungus, in blood. The World Health Organization and over 22 countries worldwide recommend CrAg screening of all persons with advanced AIDS entering or re-entering into HIV care. However, it is not known how best to treat people with cryptococcal antigen in their blood, who don't otherwise yet have symptoms of infection around their brain. If no treatment is given, almost all people will develop infection of the brain and/or die. International guidelines suggest using both HIV medicines and an anti-fungal medicine, called fluconazole, to treat this early infection. However, despite this treatment approximately 1 in 4 people may get sick and/or die. Researchers have recently discovered another medicine that may work against the Cryptococcus fungus. This medicine is called Sertraline, and it is actually a medicine that has been used for more than 25 years to treat depression (sadness). Sertraline is one of the most commonly used medicines worldwide. The purpose of this research clinical trial is to determine if standard fluconazole antifungal therapy plus a high dose of Sertraline, will be better than standard fluconazole therapy alone for treating early disseminated cryptococcal infection in persons who are asymptomatic and do not yet have infection of the brain (i.e. meningitis). This study seeks to test if Sertraline will improve survival through 6-months. Prior studies have shown that >90% of those who survive 6-months will survive >5 years.