New Strategies for Assessment of the Persistence of Viable Bacilli in

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Current diagnostic tools such as interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) and purified protein derivative (PPD) can not distinguish patients with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and persistence of live mycobacteria. This inability to rule out living mycobacteria in patients investigated for LTBI leads to unnecessary and potentially harmful treatment regimes all around the globe. The goal of this observational study is to identify candidate biomarkers for viable bacilli in latent tuberculosis in order to decrease the use of unnecessary and ineffective antibiotic treatment.

Clinical Trial Description

Tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading cause of death due to a single infectious agent, with the main burden in resource-limited settings and in vulnerable populations. It is estimated that approximately 25% of the global population is infected with TB. LTBI is a condition where the mycobacteria rests within the body instead of creating active disease. About half of the active TB cases develop within 2 years of exposure and the other half reactivates as distant as several decades post exposure. Persistence of viable bacilli is a prerequisite for the reactivation of TB. Through sampling of peripheral blood the investigators will investigate how selected cytokines, enzyme activity and gene expression changes during course of treatment, 4-6 months, and during follow up, 1 year. These patterns will be compared to the patterns of patients with: latent TB without treatment, active TB with treatment as well as healthy controls. Samples will be drawn at 0, 1, 6 and 12 months, after treatment initialization when applicable. Healthy controls will only be sampled once. Most of the analysis will be performed on TB-antigen stimulated blood. The investigators hypothesize that there is a substantial fraction of latent TB patients who do not harbor live mycobacteria and that this is reflected in study outcome measures when given treatment. Furthermore, the investigators hypothesize that this fraction of latent TB patients will resemble healthy controls in terms of outcome measures whereas their counterpart, latent TB patients harboring living bacteria, will not. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT05621343
Study type	Observational [Patient Registry]
Source	Region Skane
Contact	Petter Holmberg, PhD student
Phone	+4640333108
Email	petter.holmberg@med.lu.se
Status	Recruiting
Phase
Start date	December 21, 2021
Completion date	December 2024

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New Strategies for Assessment of the Persistence of Viable Bacilli in Latent and Active Tuberculosis — TB-LIVE

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