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Filter by:The objective of the study is to compare outcomes from three different strategies for the management of household (HH) contacts of individuals with newly diagnosed microbiologically confirmed active pulmonary TB. The study is a cluster randomized trial with three arms of equal size. The first eligible member of the HH who provides signed informed consent to participate will be randomized to one of the three strategies. The three different study arms are as follows: 1. Standard care (control arm): Participants will receive symptom screening and tuberculin skin testing (TST). If symptom screen positive and/or TST positive, they undergo chest x-rays (CXR). If CXR abnormal, they undergo microbiological investigation. If CXR normal or if microbiological investigation negative, TST positive receive latent TB infection (LTBI) treatment. If microbiological investigation is positive, they will be offered treatment for active TB. For children under 5 years of age in Brazil, sputum induction will be performed for bacteriological investigation 2. GeneXpert (GX): Participants follow an algorithm similar to the standard care, however participants with positive symptom screen and/or positive TST will receive GX (i.e., GX replaces CXR in standard care algorithm). GX positive are considered to have active TB. TST positive and GX negative receive LTBI treatment. If an individual is not able to provide sputum, they will undergo a CXR. 3. CXR for all/NoTST: Participants will receive symptom screening and CXR. No TST will be performed. If CXR abnormal or symptom positive, they undergo microbiological investigation. If the CXR is normal, and/or microbiological investigations negative - they receive LTBI treatment as per national guidelines. If microbiological investigation is positive they will be offered treatment for active TB. The study population includes HIV uninfected persons aged 5-50 years who are HH contacts of individuals with newly diagnosed microbiologically confirmed active pulmonary TB. The planned number of household contacts to recruit is about 1434 in total, or about 455 for each of the three arms. The study will take place in Benin and Brazil. The primary study outcome is, of those eligible for LTBI therapy, the proportion starting therapy within 3 months of the index TB patient starting active TB treatment. Secondary outcomes measured in each study arm include societal costs, prevalence of microbiologically confirmed and clinically diagnosed active TB, prevalence of TB infection, Incidence of adverse events, proportion who complete LTBI therapy, sensitivity and specificity of Chest Xray reading in each study side, and prevalence of active TB diagnosed using CXR in participants who cannot produce a sputum sample. Details of the statistical analysis plan for each primary and secondary outcome are provided below. Applicable for Brazil only: To evaluate the applicability and performance of material for bacteriological investigation obtained from induced sputum in children under 5 years of age. Study participants will be recruited over 18 months. Participants will be followed until LTBI treatment is completed.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of the 1-month regimen of three times weekly rifapentine plus isoniazid in improving fertility outcome in recurrent implantation failure (RIF) patients with latent genital tuberculosis (LGTB), compared to no treatment and non-LGTB patients.
About 2 billion people worldwide are infected with tuberculosis (TB). Ninety percent of those people have latent TB infection (LTBI). Risk factors like malnutrition, diabetes mellitus (DM), and helminth infection can affect the development of active TB. Researchers want to study LTBI individuals with these issues to see how they may contribute to a person s higher risk for developing active TB. This study will take place in Chennai, India. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of malnutrition, DM, and helminth infections in people with LTBI. Eligibility: People age 14 65 with or without LTBI. Design: Participants will be screened with a medical history and physical exam focused on symptoms of active TB. Those who have TB symptoms will not take part in the study. Those who do not have TB symptoms will have a physical exam with vital signs, height, and weight. They will give blood and stool samples. Participants will be assigned to 1 of 6 groups. They will repeat some of the screening tests. They will give urine samples. Some groups will have a chest X-ray. Some groups will have an ultrasound of the abdomen. Participants will complete a survey about their history of smoking and drug and alcohol use. Participants will have data collected about their nutritional status and body composition. Their skinfold thickness, ratio of waist/hip circumference, and grip strength will be measured. Participants with DM, malnutrition, or helminth infection will be given standard of care or referred for follow-up treatment. Participation will last up to 6 months. ...
This qualitative study is designed to elicit the perspectives of relevant stakeholders to adapt a community-based TB/HIV intervention aimed on providing home-based TB prevention treatment (TPT) initiation for child TB contacts, to design its implementation strategy and, post intervention, to assess lessons learned for future scale up. Participants will include policy makers and health system managers, nurse and physician providers, community health team members, and child caregivers of TB-exposed children. Stakeholders will be asked to participate in two interviews, one prior to the cluster randomized trial assessing this intervention and one after the cluster randomized trial. Trained interviewers will conduct 1-hour semi-structured in-depth interviews that will be audio-recorded, translated and transcribed for thematic analysis using a priori and emergent domains of interest. Free-listing, ranking exercises and cultural consensus will be used to identify context-specific intervention adaptations and implementation strategies.
This study evaluates the effectiveness of locally implantation of mesenchymal stem cell on vertebral bone defects due to infection of mycobacterium tuberculosis. there are controlled participants who receives placebo and patients who receives implantation of MSc
A Phase 1, Partially Blind, Placebo Controlled, Randomized, Combined Single Ascending Dose with a Food Effect Cohort (Part 1) and Multiple Ascending Dose Study (Part 2) Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of TBAJ-876 in Healthy Adult Subjects
The purpose of this research is to find out if a single dose of pre-travel vaccination with BCG can lessen tuberculosis (TB) infection by producing an immune response when given to adults traveling to countries with a high burden of TB. BCG will be compared with a placebo (an inactive vaccine). BCG (Japan) is used globally but is not approved for use in the United States, therefore it is considered experimental. Participants choosing to take part in this research study, will be randomly assigned (this is like a coin flip) to BCG or placebo. 2000 eligible volunteers will be enrolled.
This study evaluate the effect of latent infection of tuberculosis on the pregnancy outcome of IVF-ET in infertile patients with radiographic lesions suggesting old healed tuberculosis
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.
The trial is designed as a phase III, double-blind, multicenter, randomized, single administration, active-controlled, parallel-group design with two groups of newborn infants receiving either VPM1002 or BCG SII (1:1 allocation) to assess the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of VPM1002 against Mtb infection.