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Filter by:Background: When a person is exposed to something that causes an infection, the body sends a type of cell called CD8 T cells to attack it. Those cells are also found in breast milk. Nursing mothers pass these cells to their child, which helps the child fight infections, too. Researchers want to learn more about how CD8 cells work to keep people healthy. Objective: To learn more about how the human body fights off infections. Eligibility: People age 18 years and older who either have an infection, are suspected to have an infection, or recently got a vaccine. The household contacts of these people and people who have not been recently exposed to any infection are also needed. Design: Participants will be screened with a medical and health history and physical exam. They may have blood tests. The first study visit can be the same day as screening. It can be up to 3 months later. For those visits, screening tests will be repeated. At the first visit, participants will have blood collected from an arm vein. Participants who are breastfeeding may provide a small sample of breast milk. They may collect it at home or bring a pumping device to NIH to collect it. NIH can also provide a breast pump. Participants may be contacted for up to 1 year after the first visit to give samples of blood and/or breast milk. Up to 4 additional visits, which will each take about 1 hour, may be scheduled. A personal physician or local lab can collect blood from participants and ship it to NIH. Breast milk cannot be shipped.
In tuberculosis patients, salivary concentrations will be compared to plasma/serum concentrations of several anti-tuberculosis drugs. If salivary concentrations correctly represent blood concentrations, this non-invasive sampling of saliva could be used for TDM of the tested drugs.
GSK3036656 is being developed by GSK for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). This is the FTIH study for GSK3036656 to evaluate the safety, tolerability and PK of single ascending and repeat oral doses of GSK3036656 in healthy adult subjects. The results of this study are intended to be used to identify appropriate and well-tolerated doses of GSK3036656 to be used in further studies. A food effect assessment will also be undertaken to investigate the influence of food on the PK of GSK3036656. The study will be conducted in two parts: Part A (single dose) and Part B (repeat dose). Up to two cohorts will be included in Part A. 9 healthy adult subjects will be included in each cohort. Each cohort will participate in up to 4 treatment (dosing) periods including a food effect treatment period. During each treatment period, GSK3036656 will be administered to 6 subjects and placebo will be administered to 3 subjects. The starting dose in Part A will be 5 milligrams (mg), and the maximum dose will be 1500 mg. The two cohorts in Part A will be dosed sequentially (i.e., dosing in Cohort 2 starts after dosing in Cohort 1 is completed). Initially, there will be a 14 day wash out period for individual subjects between each dose level. Study progression to Part B from Part A will be based on an acceptable safety, tolerability and PK profile in Part A. Part B will comprise up to 4 cohorts (Cohorts 3, 4, 5, and 6) each containing 10 (8 active: 2 placebo) healthy adult subjects to examine the safety, tolerability and PK of a repeated daily dose of GSK3036656 over a period of up to 14 days. Appropriate doses and dose regimens for Part B will be selected based on available safety, tolerability and PK data from Part A and/or any preceding repeat dose cohorts from Part B. Dividing the total daily dose into 2 or 3 smaller doses may be done in both Part A and Part B. Up to 18 subjects will be enrolled into Part A and up to 40 subjects will be enrolled into Part B. The total duration of the study for each subject recruited into Part A and Part B will be approximately 12 weeks and 8 weeks, respectively.
To assess implementation of a nurse-led, symptom-based screening program in local, decentralized clinics for tuberculosis (TB) screening of child contacts less than 5 years old who were exposed to tuberculosis in the home. This will allow nurses in decentralized clinics to either start IPT for those asymptomatic patients and refer symptomatic patients for evaluation of TB disease and possible antituberculous therapy (ATT).
Consenting adults presenting with signs and symptoms compatible with pulmonary tuberculosis will be interviewed for demographic and medical information, and then will be asked to provide 3-4 expectorated sputum specimens. In the study laboratory, sputa will be tested using conventional and investigational diagnostic tests for tuberculosis and rifampin resistance.
This study investigates whether recent migrants to the United Kingdom are more likely to complete treatment for Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) if they are treated in the community (by General Practitioners/Family Doctors and pharmacists) than in a hospital TB clinic.
The principal objective is to evaluate a cure rate and number of adverse events of with confirmed multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patient treated with a 9months regimen.
1. The primary objective is to improve the sensitivity of novel immunodiagnostic tests for detection of TB disease in children. 2. The secondary objective is to determine biomarkers that discriminate children with TB infection and disease.
The investigators' overall objective is to assess the effectiveness, implementation and costs of a streamlined TB diagnostic evaluation strategy based around rapid, onsite molecular testing. The intervention strategy was developed based on theory-informed assessment of barriers to TB diagnostic evaluation at community health centers in Uganda and a process of engagement with local stakeholders. It includes: 1) Point-of-care molecular testing using GeneXpert as a replacement for sputum smear microscopy; 2) Re-structuring of clinic-level procedures to facilitate same-day TB diagnosis and treatment; and 3) Quarterly feedback of TB evaluation metrics to health center staff. The investigators' central hypothesis is that the intervention strategy will have high uptake and increase the number of patients diagnosed with and treated for active pulmonary TB. To test this hypothesis, the investigators will conduct a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial at community health centers that provide TB microscopy services in Uganda in partnership with the National TB Program (NTP). The investigators utilize an effectiveness-implementation hybrid design in which, concurrent with the clinical trial, the investigators will conduct nested mixed methods, health economic and modeling studies to assess 1) whether the intervention strategy modifies targeted barriers to TB diagnostic evaluation; 2) fidelity of implementation of the intervention components (i.e, the degree to which intervention components were implemented as intended vs. adapted across sites); and 3) cost-effectiveness and public health impact.
Early diagnosis can contribute to good treatment outcomes and isolate infection control.