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Antonino Catanzaro, MD
The goal of this study is to evaluate time to diagnosis for three assays (line probe, pyrosequencing, and Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility Assay \[MODS\]) to detect resistance to first and second-line anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) str…
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Switzerland
…ver, the inherent design of probe- or array-based molecular diagnostics limits their coverage to a limited number of specific mutations included in the initial design-locked assay, and prevents them from integrating new mutations and new drug resistance prediction without going b…
Adam Penn-Nicholson
Robust evidence on the clinical diagnostic accuracy and operational characteristics of the Bioneer Accupower Q-RFIA PCR kit on IRON qPCR is required to comprehensively evaluate validity of the Bioneer RFIA assay to support both global and national policy decision-making. The rap…
Beijing Hospital
Background: Drug resistant tuberculosis is a serious public health problem that threatens the health of human life and the development of society and economy. At present, the diagnosis of drug-resistant tuberculosis mainly depends on traditional drug susceptibility test. But it …
Keertan Dheda, MD/PhD
Resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs is a continually growing problem. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) is resistance to at least rifampicin and isoniazid, and extensively drug-resistant TB is additional resistance to a fluoroquinolone and a second injectable line drug. …
Keertan Dheda, MD PhD
…lling the global burden of TB. A number of promising new TB diagnostics have shown initial promise but there remains an urgent need to assess their impact when used at the point-of-treatment in primary care level. In 2009, Cepheid released the Xpert® MTB/RIF Assay, which is the …
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Switzerland
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a life-threatening disease partly due to increasing incidence of multidrug and extensively drug-resistant TB. Diagnostic based on culture and conventional drug susceptibility testing using media take several weeks leading to prolonged periods of ineffect…
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
Drug resistant tuberculosis is a growing problem world wide. The current methods for diagnosis are time consuming and may delay diagnosis and treatment for many weeks. In this study the investigators wish to take sputum samples from patients to see if the investigators can valida…
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Switzerland
FIND and partners intend to address the need for a multi- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) diagnostic solution for patients in settings with a high burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) though the development, evaluation and introduction of an Xpert …
Keertan Dheda, MBChB
This study aims to evaluate the impact of a new injection-free six-to-nine month treatment regimen of linezolid, bedaquiline, levofloxacin, pyrazinamide (PZA) and ethionamide/high dose isoniazid (INH) compared to the conventional empiric injection-based regimen. The secondary aim…
Clifton E Barry, Ph.D.
Background: \- In spite of well-researched treatments and therapies, 5 to 10 percent of tuberculosis (TB) patients who have initially successful TB treatments will relapse, usually within a year after completion of therapy. This percentage is even greater for patients who are in…
Eric R Houpt, MD
This is protocol is generated in response to the exploratory R21 from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) for US-Russia collaborative research in HIV/tuberculosis (TB). Given the exploratory focus of the protocol and…
Charles Horsburgh, MD, Payam Nahid, MD
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is tuberculosis (TB) that is resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most important anti-TB drugs. It occurs in 3.6% of newly diagnosed TB patients in the world and 17% of patients who have been previously treated. In 2017…
Tufts University
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death globally. India has the largest TB epidemic, accounting for one-quarter of cases and one-third of TB deaths worldwide. Nonadherence to medications is a central challenge in TB care leading to increased death, disease recu…
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 …
Wenhong Zhang, PHD
The INSPIRE-TB study is a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority open-label trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of seven 9-month oral regimens compared to a 9-month standard of care (SOC) regimen in RR-TB participants susceptible to fluoroquinolones…