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Filter by:This study evaluates whether specialist negative pressure dressings reduce the risk of wound infections after operations when compared to conservative dressings, and if one negative pressure dressings works better than another. The study will look at patients who have had an open operation on their bowel and the wound closed at the end of the operation.
This retrospective study is to determine if the use of PCR for detection and identification of pathogens in UTI along with antimicrobial susceptibility information, affords more efficacious treatment of UTI, as compared to traditional urine culture for patients served by House Call Physicians.
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children worldwide, resulting in up to 1 million pediatric deaths every year.Since the licensure of PCV7 and PCV13,the reported overall decline in invasive pneumococcal disease in hospitalized children younger than 5 years several years is approximately 60% in Western countries.This is a single center,blind, randomized, positive-controlled clinical trial.The purpose of this study is to preliminary evaluate the safety of PCV13i vaccine in subjects at age of 7 months and above,and to investigate the safety and immunogenicity of PCV13i vaccine at age of 2 and 3 months,compared to PCV13.
This retrospective and prospective study is to investigate the incidence of Carbapenemase-producing bacteria (CPB) at the University Hospital Basel, the time to detection of CPB and to initiation of infection control measures, the risk factors associated with carriage of CPB, type and duration of previously administrated antibiotic medication, antibiotic treatment, as well as to assess the outcomes of the affected patients.
Urological pathogens are effected by rising antimicrobial resistance rates due to the frequent use of antimicrobials for treatment and prophylaxis. Intravesical instillation with hyaluronic acid (HA) and chondroitin sulphate (CS) obtained positive outcomes in the treatment of overactive bladder, radiation cystitis and interstitial cystitis by replenishment of the glycosaminoglycan layer of the bladder. This study is to investigate whether intravesical instillation with HA-CS in patients with recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTI) is superior to a placebo instillation in terms of reduction of rate of symptomatic urinary tract infections (UTIs) (based on clinical diagnosis) needing treatment with antimicrobials within 12 months after randomisation.
This study will analyze gene expression and other laboratory data from biological samples collected from participants with suspected respiratory, urinary, intra-abdominal, and/or skin & soft tissue infections; or suspected sepsis of any cause.
Successful implement of preventive therapy for subjects with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is the critical step for elimination of tuberculosis (TB). The major obstacle of traditional preventive therapy is the unacceptable long treatment duration, taking isoniazid 5mg/kg daily for a total of 9 months (9H), thus seriously compromising its acceptability. With the introduction of 12-doses weekly high-dose (15 mg/kg) rifapentine plus isoniazid (3HP regimen), the completion rate of 3HP has be shown to be much higher than 9H. However, 4.9% to 9.1% of LTBI cases who received 3HP failed to complete treatment because of side effects. Systemic drug reactions (SDRs), even hypotension and shock, under 3HP treatment are higher than 9H treatment. A recent study in HIV patients demonstrated that a new short-term regimen, consisting of isoniazid 5mg/kg plus rifapentine 10mg/kg daily for one month (1HP), has a similar risk of adverse reactions as 3HP. Clinical study with head-to-head comparison between 3HP and 1HP, however, remains lacking. The prospective multicenter study is conducted to investigate whether risk of SDRs under 1HP is lower than that under 3HP. Hypothesis: 1HP has a lower incidence rate of SDRs than 3HP Objectives: 1. To compare the risk of SDRs in 1HP treatment and in 3HP treatment 2. To explore side effect profile of 1HP Methods: This multicenter randomized control trial will compare the risk of SDRs under conventional 3HP regimen (Arm 1: 3HP), and a new regimen consisting of daily rifapentine (10 mg/kg) plus isoniazid (5 mg/kg) for 1 month (Arm 2: 1HP).
The purpose of this study is to assess completion and performance of the following novel invasive cervical cancer (ICC) screen-and-treat algorithm among 625 HIV-positive women in Lilongwe, Malawi: 1) rapid testing of self-collected vaginal brush for primary high risk (hr)-human papillomavirus (HPV), 2) same-day visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) for women who are hr-HPV positive, and 3) thermocoagulation for VIA positive/ablation-eligible (by cervical colposcopy) women.
The present study was a prospective one-arm clinical study, in which EBV-HLH/chronic active EBV infection patients were selected as the main subjects to evaluate the effect of PD-1 antibody and lenalidomide regimens on ebv-dna and safety.
The overall aim of the project is to fill an important knowledge gap on the ecological effects of selected antibiotics. The results will be used to guide treatment decisions for common infections to as much as possible reduce the negative impact on the intestinal microbiota and consequently the risks of side effect and resistance development during therapy. Specific aims for this study are to determine (1) the composition of intestinal microbiota and prevalence of resistant bacteria and resistance genes prior to and up to 1 year after antibiotic treatment, and (2) the relative effects on the microbiota after treatment with three antibiotics used for lower respiratory tract infections; phenoximethylpenicillin, amoxicillin and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, or no treatment (control). A total of 120 healthy volunteers will be recruited to the study. They are randomised to 5 days' treatment with phenoximethylpenicillin, amoxicillin or amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, or to no antibiotic treatment. Subjects submit faecal samples at eight different time-points; at the start of the study (before treatment), immediately, one week and 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after completion of the treatment. The samples will be delivered to Scilifelab for metagenomic sequencing to detect antibiotic resistant genes and analysis of the intestinal microbiota and to the Microbiology ward for analysis with phenotypic methods (culturomics) to detect resistant genes and resistant bacteria.