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Filter by:This is a single dose study that will evaluate the efficacy and safety of a Fixed Dose Combination Ibuprofen 250 mg/ Acetaminophen 500 mg tablet in healthy male patients with fever. Results for the Fixed Dose Combination product will be compared to the individual components Ibuprofen 250 mg and Acetaminophen 500 mg and also compared to placebo.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of C-reactive protein (CRP) Point-of-care (POC) testing on health care worker prescribing behaviour in patients presenting to primary healthcare centres with an acute fever or recent history of fever. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES To assess the impact of CRP testing on clinical outcomes within the 14 days of follow-up. To assess the correlation between CRP results and clinical outcomes on the day 5 of the enrolment. To estimate the impact of CRP testing on antibiotic consumption after first consultation. To explore the attitudes of health centre staff towards the POC CRP test. To identify the prevalence of key pathogens in febrile patients in these settings. To validate the ability of CRP to discriminate between viral and bacterial pathogens in a subset of patients with a microbiologically confirmed diagnosis.
This study is a multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase I study to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity, tolerability, and immunogenicity of Modified Vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic-Yellow Fever (MVA-BN-YF) in Flavivirus-naive healthy male and non-pregnant female adult subjects. There are six dose groups in this study. Subjects who have never received a licensed or investigational smallpox vaccine will be randomized to Groups 1-5 and vaccine administration and follow-up will be conducted in a double-blinded fashion. Subjects who have previously received two, 1 x 10^8 TCID50 doses of Modified Vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) between 19 and 45 days apart by s ubcutaneous (SC) or intramuscular (IM) routes will be enrolled in Group 6 and will be dosed open-label. Since this is a first in human, phase I study, a sentinel cohort will be utilized. The first two subjects (1st sentinel group) one at each clinical site will be randomized to Group 2 or 3 and vaccinated with MVA-BN-YF with or without Montanide ISA 720 adjuvant (ISA 720). Subjects and study personnel will be blinded as to whether ISA 720 was administered. The primary objectives are the: 1) assessment of the safety, tolerability, and reactogenicity of MVA-BN-YF vaccine administered with or without ISA 720; 2) comparison of the safety, tolerability, and reactogenicity of MVA-BN-YF vaccine administered with or without ISA 720 with Yellow Fever Vaccine (YF-VAX) and MVA-BN.
The aim of the study is to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the Dengue vaccine in a population of special interest, such as HIV-positive adults previously exposed to dengue. Primary Objective: - To describe the safety of each injection of CYD dengue vaccine in HIV-positive adults previously exposed to dengue. Secondary Objectives: - To describe the humoral immune response to each dengue serotype at baseline and after each injection of CYD dengue vaccine in HIV-positive adults previously exposed to dengue. - To detect the CYD dengue vaccinal viremia post-Inj 1 in HIV-positive adults previously exposed to dengue. - To describe changes in CD4 count and HIV RNA viral load after each injection of CYD dengue vaccine in HIV-positive adults previously exposed to dengue. Observational Objective: - To describe the FV (YF, Dengue, Zika) serological status in the study population at baseline.
This randomized clinical trial studies prophylactic colony stimulating factor management in patients with breast, colorectal or non-small cell lung cancer receiving chemotherapy and with risk of developing febrile neutropenia. Patients receiving chemotherapy may develop febrile neutropenia. Febrile neutropenia is a condition that involves fever and a low number of neutrophils (a type of white blood cell) in the blood. Febrile neutropenia increases the risk of infection. Colony stimulating factors are medications sometimes given to patients receiving chemotherapy to prevent febrile neutropenia. Colony stimulating factors are given to patients based on guidelines. Some clinics have an automated system that helps doctors decide when to prescribe them when there is a high risk of developing febrile neutropenia. Gathering information about the use of an automated system to prescribe prophylactic colony stimulating factor may help doctors use colony stimulating factor when it is needed.
Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a clinically important adverse effect of myelosuppressive chemotherapy. If patients present with FN, attention is focussed on well-recognized sites of origin of infection: the airways, urinary tracts, and skin. However, infections can be only documented clinically in about two-third of febrile episodes, whereas a causative microbial pathogen cannot be identified in the majority (>70%) of cases. Pre-treatment oral evaluation aimed to identify and eliminate oral/dental foci is only routinely used in patients at high risk for oral complications (i.e. head and neck cancer patients and stem cell transplantation recipients). However, any patient treated with myelosuppressive chemotherapy, be it for cure or palliation, is at risk of developing infection in and/or originating from the oral cavity. Nevertheless, in these patients dental screening is somewhat randomly employed at the oncologist's discretion. More insight into the pre-treatment oral condition and its potential role in FN is mandatory, particularly considering the growing numbers of older patients retaining their natural dentition and the increase of dental diseases and cancer incidence with age. In addition, oral diseases may aggravate chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis (OM). OM is associated with an inflammatory response, which together with ulcerations providing a portal of entry for bacteria, can result in FN and systemic inflammatory syndrome (SIRS) and/or sepsis. Evidence suggests that microorganisms are involved in the pathobiology of OM, but no longitudinal studies using open-end sequencing are available. Furthermore, comparing bacteria identified in blood cultures in febrile patients with those of the oral cavity will expand the knowledge on the role of the oral cavity as a potential source of bacteremia. The investigators expect that the results will provide a scientific base for subsequent intervention studies on the efficacy of dental screening and elimination of foci, and other interventions aimed at modifying the oral environment before and during chemotherapy.
The IDIS study aims to develop a new rapid diagnostic test for invasive salmonellosis using samples (blood, urine) collected from patients with fever and healthy controls at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) and collaborating centers. The samples are collected after informed consent and/or assent is given by the participant and are stored in a -80 ⁰C freezer after processing (centrifugation and/or aliquoting). Basic information regarding the patient and the samples are coded and stored in a protected Microsoft Access database. The samples will be shipped to Belgium for proteomic analysis. Identification of Salmonella specific proteins in the samples will hopefully support the development of a rapid diagnostic test. Once this test has been developed, the samples will also be used for validation and evaluation of this test.
The purpose of this study is to determine safety and feasibility of adjuvant hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) with mitomycin and cisplatin in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer undergoing standard surgical resection. Patients will be treated with HIPEC using a single dose of mitomycin 15mg/m2 and cisplatin 50mg/m2 at 41-42 C for 90 minutes, during the definitive surgical resection for gastric cancer. HIPEC will be performed after resection but before anastomosis.
Fever is one of the main reasons for outpatient consultations in sub-saharan Africa. Following the introduction of malaria RDTs, clinicians face a high number of malaria-negative patients for whom they do not have a clear diagnosis. Through clinical history and examination, acute fever patients are categorized into: acute respiratory infections, urinary tract infections and other focal infections, diarrheal fevers and undifferentiated fevers. The latter being patients where no focal source of infections can be found during the consultation visit. In this proposal, the investigators focus on these acute undifferentiated fevers in an outpatient clinic. These fevers have the challenge of few point-of-care tests (POCT) available for the clinicians to identify the etiology of fever and guide treatment in resource-limited countries. As a consequence, over-prescription of antibiotics has increased. In order to improve patient outcomes while supporting judicious use of antimicrobials, there is an urgent need to change the management of febrile patients in low-income countries. This can only be achieved by providing evidence-based clinical guidelines for the management of these acute febrile patients. To develop such guidelines, epidemiological data on etiologies of undifferentiated fever need to be generated. The investigators will evaluate pathogen infection (such as dengue, chikungunya and others) in 640 patients ≥ 2 years old with acute undifferentiated fever. To evaluate the existence of aspecific and subclinical infections and co-infections, the investigators will also test a subsample of 200 patients with ARI, UTI, diarrheal fever and malaria. The investigators expect to have as main results: proportions of each syndrome among fever patients, key pathogens associated with undifferentiated fever and their clinical presentation and demographic characteristics.
The aim of the study was to assess the immune response and the safety of different vaccination schedules of CYD dengue vaccine. The primary objectives of the study were: - To demonstrate the non-inferiority of the immune response elicited against each dengue serotype by CYD dengue vaccine given as a 2-dose schedule (Group 2) compared to the immune response elicited by CYD dengue vaccine given as a 3-dose schedule (Group 1), in previously dengue exposed participants 28 days after the last injection. - To demonstrate the non-inferiority of the immune response elicited against each dengue serotype by CYD dengue vaccine given as a 2-dose schedule (Group 2) compared to the immune response elicited by CYD vaccine given as a 3-dose schedule (Group 1) in previously dengue exposed participants, 1 year after the last injection. - To demonstrate the non-inferiority of the immune response elicited against each dengue serotype elicited by a booster dose of CYD dengue vaccine one year or two years after the last injection in the primary series in previously dengue exposed participants, compared to the immune response post dose 3 in Group 1. The secondary objectives of the study were: - To demonstrate the superiority of the immune response elicited by CYD dengue vaccine given as a 2-dose schedule (Group 2) compared to the immune response elicited by CYD dengue vaccine given as a 3-dose schedule (Group 1), in previously dengue exposed participants, 28 days after the last injection. - To demonstrate the superiority of the immune response elicited by CYD dengue vaccine given as a 2-dose schedule (Group 2) compared to the immune response elicited by CYD dengue vaccine given as a 3-dose schedule (Group 1), in previously dengue exposed participants, one year after the last injection. - To describe the neutralizing antibody levels of each dengue serotype at 28 days post-injection 3 to the antibody levels immediately before receiving a booster dose, by baseline dengue serostatus. - To describe the neutralizing antibody levels of each dengue serotype at 28 days post-injection 2 and 28 days post-injection 3 from Group 1 in a primary series schedule by baseline dengue serostatus. - To demonstrate the superiority of the immune response elicited against each dengue serotype 28 days after administration of a booster dose of CYD dengue vaccine, in previously dengue exposed participants, at one year or two years after last injection in the primary series. - To describe the seroconversion rate 28 days post-booster injection in all 3 groups. - To describe all hospitalized virologically confirmed dengue (VCD) cases during the study. - To evaluate the safety profile of CYD after each and any injection during the trial. Safety assessments include solicited reactions within 7 or 14 days after each injection, unsolicited adverse events within 28 days after each injection, and serious adverse events during the study period.