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Filter by:People with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) often take several medicines to control HIV. Dolutegravir and darunavir boosted with cobicistat are HIV medicines that people may take. They may also need to take medicines for an infection called latent tuberculosis (TB). Researchers think a once-weekly treatment for latent TB would be easier for people with HIV to take. This once weekly treatment consists of two drugs: rifapentine and isoniazid. However, they need to see how TB drugs and HIV drugs interact. Objective: To learn how anti-HIV and anti-TB drugs affect each other so that people taking these drugs together can be treated safely. Eligibility: Healthy adults ages 18 65. Design: Participants will be screened with a medical history and physical exam. They will have vital signs taken and give a blood sample. Women will have a pregnancy test. Participants cannot take any other medicines during the study, including vitamins. Only occasional, infrequent use of acetaminophen (Tylenol , max 2000 mg/day), ibuprofen (Motrin or Advil ), naproxen (Aleve ), loperamide (Imodium ), and/or antihistamines (such as Benadryl , Zyrtec , Claritin , etc.) will be allowed. Participants will be assigned to one of three groups. Each group will take a different study drug, once or twice a day, for 19 23 days. At the baseline study visit, they will get a supply of the study drug tablets and instructions for taking them. Participants will keep a medicine diary to serve as a memory aid for taking medicine and reporting any side effects that they may experience. Participants will have 8 or 9 study visits over about 40 days. The number of visits depends on which group the person is assigned to. All visits will take place at the NIH Clinical Center. Participants will fast before study visits. The baseline visit will last about 2 3 hours. There will be 3-4 long visits that will last for about 12 hours. The other 4-5 visits will last about 1 hour. During all study visits, screening procedures will be repeated. During long visits, an intravenous (IV) line will be inserted into an arm vein with a needle. It will be used to take blood.
The purpose of this pilot study is to determine whether regularly scheduled medication reminder text messages (SMS) are effective in increasing latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) treatment completion.
To compare the positivity rate of the investigational assay to the currently approved QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube assay.
The three-month short-course treatment with isoniazid [H] and rifapentine [P] (3HP) recently recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could dramatically increase the number of persons starting and completing treatment for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), but TB providers nationwide are hamstrung by the requirement that 3HP only be administered by directly observed therapy (DOT) in which patients are watched taking each medication dose in-person. We developed a novel mHealth application that allows patients to make and send videos of each medication dose ingested that are watched by healthcare providers via a HIPAA-compliant website to remotely monitor LTBI treatment adherence (Video DOT [VDOT]). This study will determine whether monitoring patients with VDOT achieves higher treatment completion rates and greater patient acceptability at lower cost than clinic-based in-person DOT.
This is a doble-blind, masked, compared with placebo clinical trial in pediatric population in contact with tuberculosis with or without tuberculosis infection. This trial aims to study the effect of the probiotic Nyaditum resae® at the level of specific Treg memory cells eight weeks after the first administration, and the global tolerability of the treatment. Nyaditum resae® is a preparation in the form of capsules containing heat-killed environmental mycobacteria Mycobacterium manresensis. The overall objective of the study is the effect of Nyaditum resae® on immunity, which could reduce the risk of developing active tuberculosis.
This study will assess the next generation of blood tests for latent TB infection, which may be able to indicate how treatment is working as well as in diagnosis infection.
To evaluate CT abnormalities in the lung parenchyma in close contacts at high risk for developing multidrug- or extensively drug-resistant Tb by using a follow-up ultralow dose CT scan.
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether vitamin D supplementation reduces risk of acquiring latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in school age children in Mongolia. The investigators hypothesize that (1) vitamin D supplementation will reduce risk of acquisition of LTBI, (2) vitamin D supplementation will safely reduce risk of developing active TB and improve other secondary efficacy outcomes, and (3) children with the lowest vitamin D status at baseline will gain most from the intervention.
The purpose of this study is to use a cluster randomized trial to compare the effectiveness of linking the Quantiferon-gold in-tube test (QGIT) with routine CD4 testing to the routine use of the tuberculin skin test (TST), the current standard of care for diagnosing latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in South Africa. The investigators hypothesize that QGIT clinics will identify LTBI and initiate isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) in a higher proportion of patients and in a significantly faster timeframe. The cost-effectiveness of linking QGIT with routine CD4 compared to routine TST will also be evaluated, and the process of implementation of QGIT into the routine cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) blood draw will be evaluated using a mixed method approach to identify steps that can be modified for future scale-up of the intervention.
The investigators propose the development of a range of nasal spray challenge models to study the way the nose can respond to different types of nasal challenge that elicit different forms of inflammation. The investigators will carry out nasal challenge with bacterial and viral components and allergens. In this way the nasal upper respiratory tract mucosa is challenged with stimuli of the immune system, causing various types of inflammation. Samples will be taken by blotting the nostril surface and by scraping off tiny surface samples. The nose will be sprayed with a substance that is a single part of a bacteria or virus, or with an allergen. The material delivered by nasal spray is of high purity and is sterile, containing no live bacteria or viruses. The nasal spray substance contains molecular patterns that are recognised as foreign by the immune system, and at the right dose should stimulate the immune system, causing mild nasal inflammation. The study employs noninvasive methods of sampling using absorptive strips. These strips look and feel like tissue paper, and are applied to each nostril for a period of 1 min. A few pinhead-sized tissue samples are taken from inside the nose, using a small disposable sterile plastic probe that has a tiny scoop on its end. In the nasal lining fluid and tissue samples, measurement will taken of a range of molecules and cells that protect against infections and help the immune response. By spraying the nose with a challenge agent in this manner, the nasal immune response can be assessed, which can help us better understand how the human immune system cells and molecules respond to bacteria and viruses. In the future, this may allow the testing of new drugs and vaccines, by seeing if they decrease or stop the inflammation after the nasal challenge.