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Filter by:The National Health Plan 2001-2010 calls for investigation of the feasibility of pneumococcal vaccines for Papau New Guinea. The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Institute of Medical Research, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and the Department of Paediatrics, University of Western Australia will collaborate to examine very closely the safety of neonatal vaccination, particularly with regard to impact on the development of immunity and response to other vaccines given to infants. This study will also provide a unique opportunity for training of PNG and Australian scientists in both countries.
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the immune responses of UK infants after one or two doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine or one or two doses of three different types of meningococcal conjugate vaccine given at either two and three or two and four months of age.
Adding vancomycin to the antibiotic regimen is recommended for the treatment of pneumococcal meningitis in adults. Use of dexamethasone as adjunct therapy has proved to reduce mortality and neurologic sequelae in adult patients with pneumococcal meningitis. However, use of dexamethasone may impair penetration of vancomycin in cerebrospinal fluid. In a purely observational manner, we thought to measure blood and CSF concentrations of vancomycin in adult patients with pneumococcal meningitis, treated with vancomycin, third-generation cephalosporin and dexamethasone.
The primary aim of the study is to show that NeisVac-C does not influence the seroconversion rates induced by hepatitis B (Hep B), inactivated polio (IPV) and acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines in infants.
This study will examine the effectiveness and safety of a combination treatment for cryptococcal meningitis, a fungal infection common in persons with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the developing world. The standard initial treatment includes two medications: amphotericin B for 2 weeks followed by 8 weeks of fluconazole. This study will look at whether study participants recover more quickly and have fewer side effects if they are given both drugs at the same time for 2 weeks followed by 8 weeks of fluconazole as compared to the standard treatment. Participants will be followed for approximately 6 months from the time they are enrolled into the study.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the new meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4) can reduce asymptomatic carriage of meningococcal bacteria, and thus decrease the transmission of these bacteria in the population.
The purpose of this study is to find out how well an experimental drug called DepoCyt works for neoplastic meningitis (cancer that has spread to the tissues around the brain and spinal cord). DepoCyt is a new slow-release form of the cancer drug called ara-C (cytarabine). Cytarabine has been used for many years to treat cancer.
The purpose of this study is to examine the antifungal activity of recombinant interferon-gamma 1b (rIFN-gamma 1b) given with standard antifungal therapy.
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of melphalan in patients with persistent or recurrent neoplastic meningitis.
To evaluate the safety of escalating doses of RMP-7 administered in persons with HIV infection and cryptococcal meningitis and to determine the MTD of the drug. To evaluate the pharmacokinetics, including cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) penetration, of amphotericin B when administered with RMP-7.