View clinical trials related to Respiratory Tract Infections.
Filter by:The overarching goal of this project is to determine whether mind-body practices such as meditation or exercise can reduce the public health burden of acute respiratory infection. A major secondary goal is to determine whether mindfulness meditation or moderately strenuous exercise can enhance immune processes such as antibody response to influenza vaccination (flu shots). Finally, we want to investigate the influence of stress, optimism, anxiety and positive and negative emotion on immunity and resistance to respiratory infection.
Adult patients hospitalized with influenza have higher viral loads and more severe illnesses. Thus more aggressive treatment approaches (e.g. higher dose oseltamivir) have been suggested to treat patients suffering from severe influenza infection. The investigators plan to investigate the impact of higher-dose oseltamivir (150 mg b.d.) treatment on viral clearance and clinical recovery in adult patients hospitalized for severe influenza. Such information may lead to optimization of the management strategy used for these patients.
Acute respiratory infection (ARI) constitutes a leading cause of morbidity, hospitalization and mortality worldwide. The most common etiologic agents of ARI's, especially in children, are viruses. The study objective is to determine the viral and bacterial etiologies of ARIs in patients with lower respiratory tract infection in South East Asia. This is a laboratory based surveillance study, in which the archival specimens from hospitalized patients will be tested for respiratory pathogens other than influenza viruses Standard descriptive statistics will be used to present the findings
The purpose of this study was to determine whether reduced exposure to indoor air pollution would reduce ALRI incidence in children <18 months of age. Households were randomized to receive a chimney stove (intervention group) or continue using an open fire for cooking and heating (control group).
This single-center, randomized, double-blind and controlled study aims to examine the effect of a fermented dairy product containing the probiotic Lactobacillus casei DN-114 001 (Actimel® = tested product) on the incidence of respiratory and gastro-intestinal common infectious diseases (cumulated number of infections during the intervention period: primary criteria), and on immune functions in healthy shift workers. Volunteers received either 200g/day of tested product (N=500) or control product (N=500) for 3-months, followed by a 1-month follow-up.
This study is a randomized, investigator blind, subject blind, sponsor-open, placebo controlled, multiple dose escalating, sequential, parallel cohort study of PF-04287881. Subjects will undergo screening procedures within 28 days prior to dosing. At least 1 day after the Screening visit, eligible subjects who meet the entry criteria will be admitted to the Clinical Research Unit (CRU) and confined in the unit until discharge on Day 15. Approximately 60 healthy volunteers (20 volunteers of Japanese origin for Cohorts 5 and 6), 18 to 55 years of age, males and females (women of non childbearing potential only) will be enrolled and randomized in a 4:1 ratio to treatment with either PF-04287881 or placebo within each cohort. Each cohort will have a 10 day dosing period and each will consist of 10 subjects (8 active and 2 placebo). In each cohort, each subject will receive a single daily oral dose of either placebo or PF-04287881 under fasted state for 10 days.
This phase I single center open labeled study is planned to assess the safety and tolerability of bevacizumab for treating patients with bilateral Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (RRP). Approximately 20 patients will receive bevacizumab directly injected into the vocal folds. Patients who enroll in the protocol will be injected with bevacizumab in one vocal fold that represents the more diseased of the two folds. A sham injection with saline will be administered to the other vocal fold as the control. This therapy will be administered once every 6 ± 1 week for 6 months, with the same vocal fold selected for the initial treatment always getting the drug injection. The investigator will also treat lesions by laser photoangiolysis of both vocal folds using the 532 nm potassium-titanyl-phosphate (KTP) laser.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether Socheongryong-tang (SCRT) and Yeongyopaedok-san (YPS) are effective in the treatment of upper respiratory tract infection.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of regular consumption of probiotic milk in preventing illnesses in Finnish children attending day care centres, and possible cost-benefits that could be associated with fewer illnesses.
Preventive treatment with azithromycin reduces the prevalence fo Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome after lung transplantation.