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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness and safety of the regimen including high dose rifampicin for individualized duration (3 months after Culture Conversion) for the treatment of drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis.
To investigate the incidence of etiologically confirmed or clinically diagnosed active tuberculosis in close contacts of MDR-TB patients.
This study will be investigating the effect of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) treatment on glucose tolerance and low-grade inflammation. Almost a century ago, researchers proposed that diabetes (DM) was associated with increased risk of Tuberculosis infection (TB). A more recent systematic review concluded that DM increases the relative risk for TB 3.1 times. Reversely, TB may affect the glycaemic control; TB is in many cases a chronic infection characterised by long term low-grade inflammation and weight loss, and persons with TB are known to be at risk of hyperglycaemia and DM at time of diagnosis. A latent infection with the m.tuberculosis bacteria is "silent" without symptoms. 1,7 billion have LTBI on a global scale. Event though the infected person does not experience symptoms, increased background inflammation has been shown in LTBI patients in previous studies. We also know that an increase in inflammatory markers precedes clinical development of DM, and that sub-clinical inflammation contributes to insulin resistance. We hypothesise that LTBI contributes to dysregulated glucose metabolism due to increased low-grade inflammation, and that treatment will reduce low-grade inflammation and improve glucose tolerance.
This study compares blood levels of tuberculosis medications between diabetic patients and non-diabetic patients. There is some research that suggests these medications are at lower levels in diabetic patients with tuberculosis, and this could adversely affect the outcome of their infection. Diabetic patients are at higher risk of dying or having a severe episode of tuberculosis therefore it is important that their care is optimised as far as possible. To answer the research question all participants in the study will have an extra blood sample drawn at the same time as their routine blood tests which are used to monitor their tuberculosis treatment. Some participants will have additional blood samples taken at different times to give a more accurate picture of the medication levels in their bloodstream. The study will be conducted in the tuberculosis clinics at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and will include adult patients with and without diabetes who have recently been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Some other information about their routine medications, weight and height, and severity of diabetes will also be collected, to see if these affect the medication levels in the bloodstream as well.
Ethiopia is one of the high burden Tuberculosis countries and Tuberculosis is still the leading cause of mortality due to communicable diseases in the country. Nutritional status is one of the predictors of TB treatment outcomes. Thus, the current practices need integration of nutritional intervention in the DOT using Mobile health intervention. However, to investigator's knowledge, there is no sufficient evidence on the effect SMS text Messaging Mobile Health intervention on nutritional status and TB treatment outcomes in Ethiopia.
This study aims to find an optimized initial regimen for pulmonary tuberculosis(PTB), evaluating the efficacy, safety and acceptability of isoniazid, rifampicin and moxifloxacin(HRM) for the intensive phase of initial therapy of PTB, compared with the standard initial regimen.
The objective of the investigator's study is to detect the characteristics, pattern and outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated at Assiut University Hospital by collecting their demographic, clinical, laboratory and radiological data.
identify the prevalence of latent tuberculosis (according to new guideline ;NICE tuberculosis) among these high risk groups of children and notify ministry of health
This is a Phase I, open-label, single dose, sequential group study to compare the safety and pharmacokinetics of pretomanid in the following groups of subjects: 1) subjects with severe renal impairment including those with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) not needing dialysis, and subjects with mild or moderate renal impairment, designated as Groups 2, 3, and 4, respectively; and 2) subjects with normal renal function matched to the above renal impairment groups, designated as Groups 1A, 1B, and 1C, respectively. The study will be conducted following a reduced Pharmacokinetic (PK) study design in Part A and Part B. Part A will enroll subjects from Group 1A (i.e., 6 healthy matched controls) and Group 2 (i.e., 6 subjects with severe renal impairment and ESRD, not on dialysis). A decision will be made after the PK of pretomanid and safety of subjects enrolled in Part A have been reviewed. If Part A demonstrated different pretomanid exposures at least a 50-100% increase in Area under the Curve (AUC) in Group 2 (severe renal impairments and ESRD, not on dialysis) relative to the exposures in Group 1A (matched subjects with normal renal function), then the reduced PK study will extend to the full PK study to enroll subjects into Part B (i.e., to investigate mild, and moderate renal impairment) and all enrollment will be initiated concurrently in Part B groups (1B, 1C, 3 and 4). If no difference in PK and safety is observed in Part A, then no further study (Part B) is recommended The approximate patient involvement will be 3 months. The primary objective is to evaluate the PK profiles of pretomanid in plasma and urine after a single oral dose of 200 mg in subjects with renal impairment compared to matched healthy controls.
Tuberculosis (TB) has been one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide from a single infectious agent, ranking above HIV/AIDS. Management and eradication of this disease is being hindered by the emergence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug resistant TB (XDR-TB). Globally, there were estimated 10.4 million cases of TB and 490,000 cases of MDR-TB in 2016. China accounts for around 8.6% (0.895/10.4 million) of the global TB burden, ranking third in the top 3 countries (India, Indonesia, China) with the highest number of TB cases and ranking first with the largest number of MDR/ Rifampin-Resistant (RR)-TB cases. The treatment success rate for MDR-TB using the 18-24-month conventional World Health Organization (WHO) regimen was estimated to be about 54% worldwide and 41% for China in 2016, which remains unacceptably low. The poor MDR-TB treatment success rates suggest that current drug regimens are suboptimal. In addition, they are costly with a high pill burden, as many drugs, with significant potential for adverse events, are given for a long duration. These factors also inhibit good treatment compliance with further negative impact on treatment outcomes. According to previous studies, treatment outcomes of MDR-TB could be affected by drug resistance of pivotal drugs in MDR-TB regimen, such as fluoroquinolones, second-line injectable agents and pyrazinamide. The available drug-resistance information could help physicians decide the proper regimens for MDR-TB patients, which may prevent the useless prescription and evitable adverse. Therefore, the individualized regimen based on the resistance profile of the bacteria and patients' drug tolerance should be aimed for high-quality treatment for MDR-TB in the future. A precision individualized treatment approach based on the rapid molecular drug susceptibility tests of second line drugs may assist clinicians in making more suitable regimen and improve the treatment outcome of MDR-TB. Also, precision regimen offers the opportunity to improve treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis through reduced toxicity while reducing the risk of resistance amplification and further transmission at a population level. The purpose of this research is to assess the feasibility and effects of individualized regimen that is guided by rapid molecular drug susceptibility tests of key second-line drugs through next generation sequencing. Meanwhile, the study will evaluate a short course regimens of drugs among "simple MDR-TB" patients who are proven to be sensitive to fluoroquinolones ,injectable second-line drugs and pyrazinamide.