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Filter by:To collect and summarize information on the diagnosis, management, and clinical and mycological outcomes of patients with systemic fungal infections in order to better understand the effectiveness of antifungals in the treatment of Systemic Fungal Infections (SFI) in India.
The primary aims of this study are to identify and characterize the immediate consequences of patients who fail fluconazole treatment during the treatment of severe infection, and to determine if fluconazole failures are more frequently associated with fluconazole-resistant or fluconazole-susceptible strains of C. albicans.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of RX-3341 (delafloxacin), a fluoroquinolone, versus tigecycline, a glycylcycline antibacterial drug, in the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections.
More than 1.5 million deaths of African children under 5 years of age have been due to Plasmodium falciparum malaria. When HIV and malaria are present as coinfections, they enhance each other's progression. The primary purpose of this study is to compare the malarial infection levels in HIV-infected infants and children receiving protease inhibitor (PI)- or non-nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
More than half of the world's population is infected with Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that colonizes the human stomach. Although most infected subjects live free of symptoms and disease outcomes (except superficial gastritis), only a few develop peptic ulcers or gastric cancer, while some others may develop non-ulcer dyspepsia. Current clinical practice for the management of peptic ulcer disease includes testing for and treating H. pylori, if present. Although there are triple therapies that contain 2 antibiotics plus a bismuth compound, a proton-pump inhibitor, or a H2-receptor antagonist which are effective at eliminating H. pylori in Europe and North America, these treatments are dramatically less effective in developing countries. Our recent meta-analysis showed quadruple therapies containing clarithromycin, amoxicillin, metronidazole and a proton pump inhibitor to be effective in the presence of clarithromycin or metronidazole resistance. However, this regimen has yet to be tested in a developing country. Therefore, in the current randomized clinical trial in Pasto, Colombia, we aim to examine the effectiveness of clarithromycin, amoxicillin, metronidazole with and without a proton pump inhibitor compared to the Food and Drug Administration approved 10-day regimen containing clarithromycin, amoxicillin and omeprazole. Since antibiotic therapy is most effective within a specific gastric pH range, and since mutifocal atrophy results in damage and loss of the acid producing parietal cells, we will test the efficacy of our modified therapy stratified by diagnosis of multifocal atrophic gastritis.
Background: In developing countries, many babies are born at home and the umbilical cord commonly becomes infected during the first week after birth, and can be deadly. Cleansing of the cord with a low-cost antiseptic like chlorhexidine may reduce the risk of these infections. Little is known, however, about the frequency of chlorhexidine cleansing needed to impact upon the overall presence of bacteria on the stump, or regarding the changes in bacteria during the first week of life when most cord infections occur. Objectives: We will describe the profile of bacteria colonizing the umbilical cord stump of infants in rural Bangladesh and examine the role of topical chlorhexidine in altering colonization and progress of infection. We will compare the overall and bacteria-specific rate of colonization of the cord stump between infants receiving chlorhexidine cleansing of their cord through the first day or first week of life. We will also quantify the relationship between colonization of the cord stump with specific pathogens and the presence and severity of signs of umbilical cord infection (pus, redness, swelling) among these newborns. Potential Impact: More information is needed on the impact of single versus repeated applications of chlorhexidine to the cord stump, as the number of cleansing may substantially influence the feasibility of widespread scale-up in many populations. The data generated from this proposed study will guide the most appropriate design of this simple intervention and will help inform specific treatment protocols for effective management of infants with signs of umbilical cord infections.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety and efficacy of MK0991 in patients with deep-seated mycoses.
The purposes of this study are: 1. To determine whether procalcitonin level at admission of pediatric patients with bacterial infections can be used as a marker for prediction of defervescence and hospitalization length 2. To examine the kinetics of procalcitonin in pediatric patients with bacterial infections and persistent fever
A cross-sectional study of urogenital schistosomiasis and sexually transmitted infections (STI) prevalence and associated morbidity in a rural community in Madagascar. Clearance of infections and resolution of morbidity were subsequently studied in two phases following systematic anti-STI and anti-schistosoma treatment, respectively.
MRSA infections often require systemic antibiotic therapy and represent an important healthcare burden. Currently available treatment options are either only available in parenteral form (vancomycin) or expensive (linezolid). Thus, there is an urgent, unmet need to better investigate in-expensive but highly active alternatives to currently recommended standard treatment options. The purpose of the proposed study is to test the hypothesis that a combination of TMP-SMX and rifampicin is not inferior to linezolid for treatment of MRSA infections.