Active clinical trials for "Infections"

This study evaluates the efficacy of prophylaxis with oral vancomycin for preventing recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) in patients who have experienced at least one CDI episode in the last 180 days and are receiving antibiotics for a non CDI condition. Participants will be randomized to receive either placebo or oral vancomycin in addition to their prescribed antibiotic therapy.

Central venous catheter (CVC) infection is a common complication in pediatric patients, resulting in prolonged length of stay in hospital, requiring antibiotics, invasive procedures and increase morbidity and mortality. Given the repercussion of this complication, measures that minimize its should be stimulated. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of intraluminal alcoholization (ethanol lock therapy) on prevention of infection of short-term central venous catheters in pediatric patients.

This study will determine the influence of doxycycline treatment against Wolbachia/M. perstans on immunity against concomitant mycobacterial infections in healthy M. perstans infected individuals. In this regard, the investigators will perform a community-based randomized controlled trial (Phase 2a) in Asante Akim North District. A cohort of 200 participants who are contacts of patients with Tuberculosis or Buruli ulcer, of both sexes with no clinical condition requiring long-term medication but connected with Mansonella perstans will be investigated for the effect of doxycycline on microfilaria, the immune response and development of mycobacterial disease.

A newly 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine was developed with promising safety and immunogenicity demonstrated in the phase III trial in China. A large scale, double blind, randomized, PNEUMOVAX 23 (Merck & Co., Inc.) controlled phase 3 clinical trial was conducted.

Patients enrolled on this study will have received a stem cell transplant. After a transplant, while the immune system grows back the patient is at risk for infection. Some viruses can stay in the body for life, and if the immune system is weakened (like after a transplant), they can cause life-threatening infections. BK virus (BKV) is a virus that can cause serious life-threatening infections in patients who have weak immune systems. It affects the urinary tract, and can cause frequent urination, blood in the urine, and severe pain. Investigators want to see if they can use a kind of white blood cell called T cells to treat BKV infections that occur after a transplant. Investigators have observed in other studies that treatment with specially trained T cells has been successful when the cells are made from the transplant donor. However as it takes 1-2 months to make the cells, that approach is not practical when a patient already has an infection. Investigators have now generated BKV-specific T cells from the blood of healthy donors and created a bank of these cells. Investigators have previously successfully used frozen virus-specific T cell lines generated from healthy donors to treat virus infections after bone marrow transplant, and have now improved the production method and customized the bank of lines to specifically and exclusively target BKV. In this study, investigators want to find out if the banked BKV-specific T cells derived from healthy donors are safe and can help to treat BK virus infection. The BKV-specific T cells (Viralym-B) are an investigational product not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

This study is intended to determine the efficacy, safety and tolerability of topical application of E-101 Solution directly into the surgical incisional wound in the prevention of infection of superficial and deep surgical incisional wounds. E-101 Solution is an enzyme-based antiseptic that is being developed for direct application to a surgical incision.

SPLIT-THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT TAKE AND MICROBIOLOGICAL EVALUATION IN BURNED PATIENTS INTRODUCTION: Infection is cause of increased morbidity and mortality in burn patients, and its control is a major challenge also for skin graft integration. Wound and soft tissue infection rates are higher than microbiological diagnosis rates. PURPOSE: To evaluate partial skin graft integration in relation to microbiological analysis of wounds in burn patients. METHODS: This project will be a transversal, prospective, analytical, controlled study in humans, conducted in a single center, at Burn Care Unit of Department of Plastic Surgery at Federal University of São Paulo from October, 2010 to October, 2011. Data will be collected to characterize demographic and clinical aspects. Data analysis will be performed using Student's t-test and Friedman analysis of variance.

Phase I, open-label study to evaluate the pharmacokinetics, tolerability and short-term safety of ciprofloxacin in neonates with suspected (or proven) Gram Negative infection. Objectives: To evaluate the multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of ciprofloxacin in neonates and young infants (24 - 52 weeks postmenstrual age) with suspected or proven Gram Negative infection. To evaluate the tolerability and describe short-term safety of ciprofloxacin in neonates and young infants with suspected (or proven) Gram Negative infection. To describe the clinical outcomes of neonates treated with ciprofloxacin

The study is designed to establish the best dose to safely infect healthy individuals with Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites (PfSPZ) via intravenous (IV) injection.

HYPOTHESES: That infants receiving PHiD-CV10 as a booster at 12 months of age, compared to controls having no PHiD-CV10 booster (i.e. standard PCV13), will have higher HiD antibody levels, lower carriage of NTHi, and less tympanic membrane perforation at 18 and 36 months of age. That infants receiving PCV13 as a booster at 12 months of age, compared to controls having no PCV13 (i.e. PHiD-CV10 booster) will have higher antibody levels to serotypes 3, 6A and 19A, less carriage of these serotypes, and less tympanic membrane perforation at 18 and 36 months of age.