Active clinical trials for "Infections"

The telavancin observational use registry (TOUR) will collect data to support study of the efficacy, safety, and pattern of use of telavancin in hospital-based inpatients and in outpatients being treated in infusion centers who are receiving clinician directed telavancin therapy.

The purpose of this "before-after" prospective multicenter study is to assess the impact of six Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) on Doctor Patient Communication scale (DPC) and adherence scale for common acute illnesses in emergency ward.

Determine the effect of Vancomycin Powder added to the surgical wound at closure on surgical infection rates.

The purpose of this study is to determine the incidence and risk factors related to Infection in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Emergency departments (ED) are becoming increasingly over-crowded, with patients facing prolonged waiting times. Therefore, a safe and rapid assessment that identifies patients with low severity that could be treated as outpatients is essential for improving the workflow within the ED. The rationale of this IDEAL study is to provide guidance to safely decrease the number of hospital admissions through identification of low risk patients with the biomarker MR-proADM. This will be tested in a pilot study first.

Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections caused by Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, or hookworm, affect approximately 1.5 millions individuals primarily in tropical and subtropical regions. STHs infections have been associated with delay in growth and development in children. The prevalence in Indonesia varied from 45% to 65%, but in poor sanitation areas the prevalence can increased to 80%. World Health Organization currently recommends mass treatment with benzimidazoles and health hygiene education to control the disease. In this study we evaluated the effectiveness of single and four-monthly health hygiene education to STH reinfection rates among school-aged children in Mandailing Natal district, North Sumatera province, Indonesia.

This is a research study that aims to determine if antibiotic bladder instillations (placing an antibiotic directly into the bladder) over several sessions at the office is a good option to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections, in comparison with oral suppression therapy (taking daily antibiotics in the form of pills by mouth). Oral antibiotic suppression therapy is currently the most common treatment route for recurrent urinary tract infections in post-menopausal women. The bladder antibiotic instillation may overcome the disadvantages of oral suppression therapy such as antibiotic resistance, certain side effects, and recurrence of infections after finishing the treatment course.

Since Dec 2019, over 70000 novel coronavirus infection pneumonia (NCIP) patients were confirmed. 2019 novel coronavirus (2019 nCoV) is a RNA virus, which spread mainly from person-to-person contact. Most of the symptoms are non-specific, including fever, fatigue, dry cough. Sever NCIP patients may have shortness of breath and dyspnea, and progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). The mortality is reported to be around 2.3%. Thus, early detection and early treatment is very important to the improvement of NCIP patients' prognosis. At present, NCIP RNA detection of pharyngeal swab specimen by RT-PCR is recommended. However, due to the universal susceptibility to 2019 nCoV in general population and limited number of NCIP RNA detection kits available, to identify an efficient screening strategy is urgently needed. This study aim to develop and validate the diagnostic accuracy and screening efficiency of a new NCIP screening strategy, which can benefit the disease prevention and control.

The purpose of this study is to see whether chlorhexidine is superior to povidine-iodine vaginal antisepsis at reducing bacteria colony counts in pregnant women by comparing three groups: vaginal washing with chlorhexidine-alcohol, vaginal washing with povidine-iodine, and vaginal washing with saline alone.

The motivation for this study was produced from our preliminary data, which showed that during the first 96 hours of life a full-term neonate will actively reduce the overall serum iron concentration of their blood and the transferrin saturation decreases rapidly from 45% in cord blood to ~20% by six hours post-delivery. The Investigators hypothesise that this active sequestration of iron, which results in hypoferremia, is done in an effort to limit susceptibility to infection, a process referred to as nutritional immunity. Currently, little is known about iron regulation and iron homeostasis during the first week of life and even less is known about the comparisons of nutritional immunity between full term, preterm and low birth weight neonates. Additionally, limited research has been conducted on the impact of these processes on bacterial pathogens. In an effort to study the neonatal nutritional immunity and its role in neonatal susceptibility to infection, The investigator will conduct an observational study in full-term, preterm and low birth weight vaginally-delivered neonates born at Serrekunda General Hospital, The Gambia. The investigators will fully characterise and quantify nutritional immunity during the early neonatal period and the investogators will assess how this impacts bacterial growth. Study sensitisation will occur at the antenatal clinic, during the mother's second trimester of pregnancy. Mothers will be consented and enrolled at delivery. Blood samples will be collected once from the umbilical cord and at serial time points from the neonates over the first week of life.