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Tulane University
Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose diagnostic challenges in low- and middle-income countries with high rates of TB disease, due to the well-described impact of paucibacillary disease in children, and current TB culture and polymerase-chain reaction tests are of limited…
Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS
…s were reported in 2020, of which 1 million occurred in the pediatric population. However, epidemiological data available on tuberculosis (TB) in pediatric age are extremely limited due to diagnostic challenges in this patient category. Furthermore, children are almost never incl…
Manresana de Micobacteriologia, SL
…oble-blind, masked, compared with placebo clinical trial in pediatric population in contact with tuberculosis with or without tuberculosis infection. This trial aims to study the effect of the probiotic Nyaditum resae® at the level of specific Treg memory cells eight weeks after …
Francesca Montagnani, PhD, MD
…in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB - active or latent) in pediatric subjects (0 and 17 year)s recently exposed to infection (indicated as "contacts") or with clinical suspicion of active TB, and to compare the results obtained with those of the TuberculinSkin Test (TST; gold st…
Per Bjorkman, MD, PhD
… informed about symptoms and signs that may indicate active pediatric TB. Study infant caretakers are instructed to contact the study site EPI clinic directly if the infants develop such symptoms for unscheduled study visits (in order to assess incident active TB during follow-up…
Eva Maria Guix-Comellas, Professor
…in the outpatient tuberculosis (TB) Unit of a tertiary-care pediatric center in Catalonia (Northeast Spain), which is a referral center for pediatric TB (Hospital Sant Joan de Déu) in the Southern Barcelona Health Care Region (Regió Sanitària Barcelona Sud) (1,346,000 inhabitants…
Holly Rawizza, MD, MPH
…g two-way PK of short-course LTBI treatment in a vulnerable pediatric population. This study is a prospective, single-arm, open-label, intensive and sparse pharmacokinetic (PK) and safety study to evaluate steady-state dolutegravir (DTG) and rifapentine (RPT) concentrations amon…
Gonzalo G Alvarez, MD
…ent for LTBI.(1) These findings were also replicated in the pediatric population through a pediatric cohort (n=905 eligible participants) nested within the multi-centered international randomized controlled trial with children between ages 2-17 treated with 3HP compared to the IN…
Hospital Mutua de Terrassa
… years after arrival in the host country. In addition, at a pediatric level, most cases are produced in immigrant children and the children of immigrants. This persistence of a greater incidence in the immigrant population might, in part, be explained by the increase in exposure …
Jyoti S. Mathad, MD, MSc
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pharmacokinetics (PK), tolerability, and safety of once-weekly doses of rifapentine (RPT) and isoniazid (INH) in HIV-1-infected and HIV-1-uninfected pregnant and postpartum women with latent tuberculosis (TB). TB is a major cause of …
Michele L Pearson, MD, Sara J Whitehead, MD
Study Design: Stratified, matched, cluster-randomized, controlled trial Unit of Randomization: Healthcare facility Study Duration: 3 years; prevalence of latent Tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in healthcare workers (HCWs) will be at measured at baseline, and LTBI incidence will b…
nagla h. fargaly, professor
identify the prevalence of latent tuberculosis (according to new guideline ;NICE tuberculosis) among these high risk groups of children and notify ministry of health TB is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It typically affects the lungs (pu…
Anneke Hesseling, MD, Mark Cotton, MD, Avy Violari, MD
Hypotheses: Rifapentine (given as water-dispersible monolayer and/or fixed dose combination with isoniazid) dosing in HIV-infected and uninfected children ≤ 12 years of age with latent TB infection (LTBI) or with exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) will requi…