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Filter by:The objective of the study is to evaluate the feasibility and interest of a HIV quarterly preventive global care for men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa to help reducing HIV incidence in this key population, their female partners, and the general population. This interventional, open label, multicenter, multidisciplinary cohort study will be conducted in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali and Togo. All participants will receive a HIV quarterly preventive global care including: i) data collection on health status, symptoms of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and sexual behavior, ii) a clinical examination, iii) STI diagnosis and treatment, iv) counselling adapted for MSM, and v) the provision of condoms and lubricants.
In this protocol, the investigators are examining the use of a novel pathogen testing technology and method of identification of antibiotic susceptibility against the conventional C & S testing for patients with both complicated and uncomplicated UTIs. The investigators will examine the two modes in terms of objective patient related outcomes, i.e. 1) diagnostic accuracy and degree of detail of final analysis; 2) time to resolution of symptoms; 3) quality of life as defined by particularly symptomology and "bothersomeness" of the symptoms; and 4) overall cost.
Randomized, double blind, double dummy, positive drug parallel comparison, multi-centre clinical trial to assess the efficacy and safety of Fuganlin Oral Liquid in children with influenza (acute upper respiratory infection).
This study will determine the tissue penetration of tedizolid (Sivextro, Merck & Co.), a novel oxazolidinone antibiotic, into the extracellular, interstitial fluid of soft tissue in diabetic patients with lower limb wound infections. Penetration will be compared with a group of healthy volunteer control participants.
This study will determine the tissue penetration of ceftolozane/tazobactam (Zerbaxa, Merck & Co.), a novel β-lactam/β-lactamase combination antibiotic, into the extracellular, interstitial fluid of soft tissue in diabetic patients with lower limb wound infections. Penetration will be compared with a group of healthy volunteer control participants.
Infections at the site of surgical incisions (SSIs) are the most common infection among surgical patients. Although all patients undergoing surgical procedures are at risk for developing SSIs, colorectal surgery has had consistently had high rates of SSIs, ranging from 3-45%. These infections can increase the length of hospital stay, and increase the rate of readmissions and costs. Further research is needed to study the effects of mupirocin in general surgery. A recent study compared colorectal SSI rates between mupirocin and standard gauze surgical dressings. The results of this show that mupirocin has the greatest effect on reducing SSI rate when compared to standard gauze dressings. However, these studies have not been performed in the United States and have only been studied on a very specific patient population. The purpose of this study is to assess the rate of infections at the surgical incision after colorectal surgery when a mupirocin dressing is placed versus a standard gauze dressing without mupirocin.
Up to date, some clinical trial have evaluated the efficacy and safety of Vitamin D supplementation in children with RRI, with no conclusive information. Therefore, the investigators designed a prospective, single-blind, clinical trial to evaluate whether oral supplementation with vitamin D from October to April reduces the global health burden of recurrent respiratory tract infections in a primary care setting. The primary outcome was evaluated if Vitamin D supplementation during autumn and winter can reduce the number of respiratory tract infections in children diagnosed with recurrent respiratory tract infections the seasons before. Secondary objectives was the assessment of Vitamin D supplementation benefits on global socioeconomic burden of recurrent respiratory tract infections in a primary care setting, according to number of visits to the primary care paediatrician and use of antibiotics due to respiratory tract infections.
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the safety of elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/ tenofovir alafenamide (E/C/F/TAF) relative to unchanged current antiretroviral therapy (ART) by assessing spine and hip bone mineral density (BMD) measured at Week 48 in virologically-suppressed, HIV-1 infected participants aged ≥ 60 years.
This is a Phase 2, two-step, open-label study of the outcome of analytic treatment interruption (ATI) on patients who started antiretroviral therapy (ART) during Fiebig Stage I of acute HIV infection (AHI), defined as detectable HIV-RNA without detectable p24 antigen or HIV IgM. The primary endpoint will be rate of sustained viral suppression, defined as HIV-1 RNA < 50 cps/ml at 24 weeks after treatment interruption. During ATI subjects will be monitored closely for safety and will have ART re-initiated if they meet predefined clinical, virological, or immunological criteria. In step I, there will be 8 subjects who undergo ATI. An interim analysis for safety will be conducted after 12 weeks. If none of the subjects maintain viral suppression at 12 weeks then no further subjects will be enrolled into the study. If at least 1 out of 8 subjects maintains viral suppression at 12 weeks then an additional 7 subjects will be enrolled in step 2. At ATI all antiretroviral drugs will be discontinued. Subjects will be monitored with clinical exam, immunological (CD4), and virological (HIV-RNA) testing at baseline and then on a fixed schedule for 24 weeks. ART will be re-initiated immediately if subjects meet any pre-defined clinical, immunological or virological safety endpoints during the monitoring period.
There is a theoretical possibility of a complete suppression of HIV viral replication, subject to the use of highly active associations of more than 25 antiretroviral drugs currently available and good treatment adherence. But a key question remains: whether it can persist viral replication low noise HAART, since several arguments suggest a subclinical escape of the virus to HAART at least in some individuals. The technique proposed in this research consists of the detection and quantification of the linear viral cDNA intra cytoplasmic, as persistent novo infection marker in order to highlight the subclinical replication active in treatment of HIV-1 and consider an optimized therapeutic management of patients. Main objective : Comparing the frequency of patients infected with HIV and treated effectively (HIV viral load undetectable plasma with conventional methods) having the HIV DNA into the cytoplasm of their CD4 + T cells from peripheral blood, as cellular infection marker novo persistent, among patients with a therapeutic regimen contains or not the viral integrase inhibitor raltegravir. Secondary objectives - To evaluate the frequency of patients infected with HIV and treated effectively with the HIV DNA into the cytoplasm of their CD4 + T cells from peripheral blood - Evaluate the causes of persistent infection in de novo virological responders to treatment with ART: presence of the HIV genome encoding strains resistant to treatment ART ongoing noncompliance to treatment, type of antiretroviral therapy, CD4 nadir , pretreatment level of plasma HIV RNA, total duration of ART - Assess the impact of persistent novo infection virological responders: cell activation CD4 + and CD8 +, lack of immunological treatment response, changes in lymphocyte ratio T naïve / memory cells cells, the presence of transient increase viremia, residual viremia levels - Identify virological responders may benefit from treatment intensification