Active clinical trials for "Infections"

Thousands of healthcare workers have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and contracted COVID-19 despite their best efforts to prevent contamination. No proven vaccine is available to protect healthcare workers against SARS-CoV-2. This study will enroll 470 healthcare professionals dedicated to care for patients with proven SARS-CoV-2 infection. Subjects will be randomized either in the observational (control) group or in the inhaled nitric oxide group. All personnel will observe measures on strict precaution in accordance with WHO and the CDC regulations.

The purpose of the study is to design and execute a prospective, longitudinal, descriptive cohort study in a pragmatic clinical practice for adults with symptoms that may be related to COVID-19.

The efficacy of the current standard triple therapy is at an unacceptably low level. Resistance to antibiotics is suspected to be the major cause of the low efficacy of standard triple therapy. Point mutations in the 23S rRNA gene are known to be the primary mechanism of clarithromycin resistance against H pylori. Recently, a point mutation detection kit using a dual-priming oligonucleotide (DPO)-based multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was introduced and made commercially available. The primary goal of our study was to compare the eradication rates of empirical therapy and tailored therapy. Specifically we examined the eradication rates of 7-d, 14-d empirical therapy with 7-d, 14-d tailored therapy. Our secondary goal was to examine the adverse events of each treatment, cost effectiveness of each treatment methods, and accuracy of DPO-PCR for detecting H. pylori resistance.

This study aims to implement a targeted 4CMenB immunisation program in young people aged 14-19 years in the Northern Territory (NT). As part of the NT program consenting 14-19 year olds will receive 2 doses of the licensed 4CMenB vaccine. An oropharyngeal swab will be collected on the same day as the first dose of the vaccine and 12 months later to assess carriage of Neisseria meningitidis. The first swab will assess baseline carriage prevalence among 14-19 year olds in the NT. The swab taken 12 months later will provide data on the change in carriage that may occur after implementation of the immunisation program. Emerging evidence suggests that the 4CMenB vaccine may be protective against gonorrhea. Therefore, vaccine effect (impact and effectiveness) against both invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) and gonorrhea in the NT will be assessed using data from the above study comparing notifications between vaccinated and unvaccinated as well as comparing pre and post implementation periods.

The purpose of this phase III study is to evaluate the efficacy between treatments (UB-421 Arm vs. Placebo Arm) by measuring the proportion of subjects with reduction in HIV-1 RNA viral load.

Participants will undergo daily gentamicin bladder instillations to determine if its use will reduce the rate of symptomatic urinary tract infections (UTIs) as well as the use of oral and intravenous antibiotics in adults with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) who have recurrent UTIs. Participants are randomized into one of three groups: 1) Gentamicin and saline instillation 2) Saline only instillation 3) Standard of care, no instillation.

Fecal microbial transplantation is to transplant functional microbiota from the feces of healthy people into the gastrointestinal tract of patients, reconstruct new intestinal microbiota, and realize the treatment of intestinal and extra-intestinal diseases. Compared with ordinary commercial probiotics, FMT is more consistent with the composition of the intestinal microecological structure and can recover intestinal flora to the maximum extent and faster. FMT increases intestinal bacteria production function and helps to restore the systemic immune response so that sepsis pathogens are removed. The aim of this trial was to investigate the clinical effect of FMT in the treatment of patients with severe infections.

The SGLT2 inhibitors have changed the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in recent years, especially in patients with cardiovascular or renal disease. However, the association between SGLT2 inhibitors and urinary tract infection (UTI) risk is controversial. Moreover, it is not known whether asymptomatic bacteriuria or urinalysis abnormality at the initiation of SGLT2 inhibitors are risk factors for UTI in women. There is not enough data to recommend or not to recommend for performing urinalysis or urine culture test before initiation of SGLT2 inhibitors. The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of asymptomatic bacteriuria or urinalysis abnormality at the initiation of SGLT2 inhibitors on UTI risk in a prospective cohort of women with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most complication after a surgical operation and their incidence reaches 20% worldwide. SSIs have been associated to significant morbidity and mortality, high ICU admission rates, increased length of hospital stay, high readmission rates and raised cost. However, there is no registry for SSIs in Greece so far. In addition, it has been considered that almost half of SSIs could be prevented. Therefore, several prevention strategies have been suggested by international health organizations, such as WHO and NICE, that seem to be effective. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of 10 prevention bundles on the rate of SSIs, as well their consequences on several financial parameters of the Greek healthcare system.

The clinical management of H. pylori infection depends essentially on two factors, prevalence and local resistance. In Germany, only limited data from rather small cohorts currently exist regarding both factors. Knowledge of the current prevalence (accounting for socioeconomic factors and age) is important for the selection of suitable detection methods, as this influences the positive and negative predictive value of the respective diagnostic methods. Current data on antibiotic resistance are essential for efficient therapy. In this clinical study, we will collect data on the frequency and severity of H. pylori infections and then, after endoscopic examination, on antibiotic resistance. Knowledge of the resistance situation is necessary for the selection of suitable therapeutic regimens. Furthermore, molecular methods for resistance detection are to be compared with conventional microbiological methods in order to be able to detect resistance more quickly. Furthermore, we aim to identify specific parameters for early detection of patients at particularly high risk of gastric cancer or with precancerous lesions due to infection. The aim is to identify carcinogenesis-relevant factors such as gastric microbiome signatures that will make it possible to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from prophylactic eradication therapy in terms of risk stratification.