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Sushil Kr Kabra, MD
…r of them alone, significantly increased weight gain during Tuberculosis (TB) treatment. There was a substantially larger beneficial effect on survival amongst those who received the combination of Zn and MN compared with those who received either Zn alone or MN alone. These exci…
Cinta Moraleda, MD, PhD
…ate whether empirical treatment against cytomegalovirus and tuberculosis improves survival of HIV-infected infants with severe pneumonia. Pneumonia is the main cause of death in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-infected children. A significant number of undiagnosed or poorly t…
University Paris 7 - Denis Diderot
…te the efficacy of a new screening for infectious diseases: tuberculosis, HIV, HBV and HCV, based on risk factors questionnaires (TB screen for tuberculosis and TROD screen for HIV and hepatitis) amongst a population of legal migrants during their mandatory medical check-up. This…
B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
Background: MDR-TB (Multidrug Resistant tuberculosis) remains a major public health concern, especially in high-burden countries like Nepal. While individual risk factors are known, the cumulative impact of cardiometabolic on MDR-TB is not well understood. Methods and Findings: …
catherine GEINDRE
The presence of M. tuberculosis in non-invasive throat swabs of patients withdrawn for suspected tuberculosis. Hypothesis 10% of patients infected by M. tuberculosis are carrier of M. tuberculosis pharyngeal. Secondary 1. Measure the time to diagnosis of pulmonary TB by compar…
Epicentre
…erformance of NRA, NRA-p and REMA-p for the detection of M. tuberculosis complex from sputum samples from adult pulmonary TB suspects in a high TB and HIV prevalence setting, using LJ and MGIT culture as gold standard. The Secondary objectives are: * To measure the performance …
Shuihua Lu, BBachelor
In this clinical research,48 cases TB (Tuberculosis patients) participants and 48 cases non-TB participants with lung disease who all meet the standard are divided into different groups through a randomized and blind method. Every subject inject intradermally ESAT6-CFP10 and TB-P…
Kelly Dooley, MD, Daniel W Fitzgerald, MD, Ekaterina V Kurbatova, MD, PhD, MPH, Wendy Carr, PhD
…tudy is to determine whether one or two 17-week regimens of tuberculosis treatment bedaquiline (B or BDQ), moxifloxacin (M), pyrazinamide (Z)-- (BMZ) plus either Rifabutin (Rb) or Delamanid (D or DLM) are as effective as a standard six-month regimen for treatment of pulmonary tub…
Siyan Yi, PhD, Alvin Teo, MPH
Tuberculosis (TB) is a highly stigmatized disease, and approximately one-third of the Cambodian population living with TB are undetected. Therefore, it is vital to find these missing cases and promptly link them to care to reduce disease progression and interrupt further transmis…
David SC Hui, MD
Tuberculosis (TB) is an endemic infectious disease in Hong Kong and a global health threat. Tuberculous pleuritis (TBP) is the most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in China. Its presentation is frequently non-specific and the diagnosis is challenging due to its pauciba…
Armed Forces Capital Hospital, Republic of Korea
…uantiFERON-TB Gold in-tube (QFT) in the diagnosis of active tuberculosis in young adults group, highly clinically suspected tuberculosis. Investigators will enroll prospectively all clinically and radiologically suspected tuberculosis patients from 20 to 29 years old who visited…
Richard A. Oberhelman, MD
Tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality among AIDS patients in the developing world. The diagnosis of tuberculosis in HIV infected children is complicated by inefficient and expensive tuberculosis tests and vague diagnostic criteria. This study will evaluate the accuracy and e…
Adrian Martineau, PhD
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a major human pathogen, responsible for an estimated 10.6 million cases of active tuberculosis (TB) and 1.6 million deaths in 2021. Most adult cases of active TB arise from progression of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), whose global preva…
Wenhong Zhang, MD，PhD
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the most important infectious disease in the world. Preventive treatment plays an important role in successful control of TB. The investigators' previous study showed a 3-month weekly rifapentine and isoniazid regimen had a high protective efficacy but a…
Surendra Kumar Sharma
…of oral Zinc administration in new smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Evidence is available suggesting that zinc deficiency rapidly diminishes antibody- and cell-mediated immune responses in both humans and animals and renders the individual susceptible to a variety …
Jeong Ha Mok, Master, Jung Seop Eom, Master
…ed and realtime polymerase chain reaction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis using EBUS-TBNA samples in patients with isolated intrathoracic lymphadenopathy. Although endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has been widely used to perform mediast…
Susan Dorman, MD, Yukari Manabe, MD
…ateral-flow urine lipoarabinomannan (LAM) test in detecting tuberculosis in HIV-infected adults. A secondary study objective is to determine the accuracy, efficiency, costs, and cost-effectiveness of various combinations of Tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic tests, including the novel…
Stellah Mpagama
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health problem, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Approximately 10 million people fall sick with TB, causing up to 2 million deaths, worldwide per year. Considerable progre…
National University Hospital, Singapore
Although tuberculosis is now considered a treatable disease, central nervous system tuberculosis (CNS-TB) when managed with the current standard-of-care (SOC), still has mortality rates ranging from 30-50% even in tertiary hospital centers. At present, the SOC for the management …
Naihui Chu, Ph.D
…egimen (BR) in patients with rifampicin-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis. Approximately 450 participants will be screened over a period of up to 2 weeks and randomized in a 2:1 ratio to receive either Sudapyridine or bedaquiline, in combination with placebo tablets and BR, for 2…
Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center
… rifabutin which included in the standard treatment of anti-tuberculosis in HIV/AIDs patients combined with pulmonary tuberculosis, a multi-center, prospective cohort will be established. Antiviral efficacy and drug drug interaction will be investigated in order to provide optimi…
Antonella Cingolani
Despite being a curable and preventable disease, tuberculosis still represents a major global health problem. It is estimated that 10.8 million people contracted tuberculosis in 2023, with an incidence of 134 per 100,000 inhabitants. In 2023, there were 1.25 million deaths, confi…
Worku Nigussa, MD
Tuberculosis is the 13th cause of death from all causes, infecting roughly the 25% of the world population, and Ethiopia is listed among the 30 high-burden countries both for TB and for HIV/TB. In recent years, the immediate consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic was a large fall i…
Region Skane
Two commonly used treatments for latent tuberculosis infection are either 4 months rifampicin or 6-9 months isoniazid. The invistigators will study the risk of acquisition of rifampicin resistance in commensal Staphylococcus aureus in persons treated with rifampicin versus in per…
Jan-Willem Alffenaar, Professor
…al activity in adult patients with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis. The main question it aims to answer are if cephalexin, in combination with amoxicillin-clavulanate, is effective in the treatment of tuberculosis. Participants with smear-positive tuberculosis will be ran…