Active clinical trials for "Communicable Diseases"

Babies and children have an increased risk of getting an infection with a bacteria in the bloodstream (sepsis). It is often difficult for the doctor to determine whether a child has an infection of the bloodstream, because the symptoms are often unclear and can also occur in children who are not sick. To determine whether there is an infection, a little blood is currently taken for a blood test (the blood culture) to investigate whether there is a bacteria in the blood. However, it often takes at least 36 hours before the results of this blood culture are available. That is why antibiotics are usually started immediately to treat the possible infection. However, it often turns out that the blood culture is negative after 36 hours, which means that no bacteria have been found in the blood. Usually the antibiotics are then stopped because it turns out that there was no infection at all. There is currently no good test that can predict whether (newborn) children have an infection or not. That is why too many children are currently wrongly receiving antibiotics. These antibiotics can damage the healthy bacteria in the intestines. There are many billions of 'beneficial bacteria' in the intestine. These play an important role in the digestion of food and protect against external infections. Antibiotics aim to kill bacteria that cause inflammation or infection. Unfortunately, antibiotics also kill some of these beneficial bacteria. In addition, unnecessary use of antibiotics contributes to antibiotic resistance. The aim of this research is to investigate whether Molecular Culture, a PCR based test that can identify bacterial pathogens in bodily fluids within 4 hours, has greater accuracy than traditional culturing techniques for bacteria in blood. If proven, this could lead to faster identification or exclusion of sepsis in children.

This study is being conducted to support the clinical development of acalabrutinib in participants who need treatment with proton pump inhibitors while taking acalabrutinib.

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of pidotimod as treatment in participants with recurrent respiratory tract infections.

SAINT-PERU is a triple-blinded, randomized placebo-controlled trial with two parallel arms to evaluate the efficacy of ivermectin in negativizing nasopharyngeal PCR in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The trial is conducted in two national hospitals at Lima-Peru.

In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, identifying low-risk patients who can be safely treated at home and high-risk patients requiring hospitalization or even intensive care is crucial for Emergency Departments. Thanks to a consensus of experts using the Delphi method, we previously defined the HOME-CoV rule. The HOME-CoV rule consists of 8 items precluding home treatment for patients consulting in the Emergency Department (ED) with confirmed or highly suspected mild to moderate COVID-19. It has been validated in a prospective study, patients with a negative rule having a very-low rate of invasive ventilation or death within the 7 days following ED presentation (HOME-CoV study, NCT: 02811237). Using logistic regression, we revised the HOME-CoV rule in order to define a score allowing. The revised HOME-CoV score comprises 7 criteria and, retrospectively assessed in the database of the HOME-CoV study, it exhibits promising performances. A revised HOME-CoV score < 2 had a sensitivity of 0.93 (0.84 to 0.98), a specificity of 0.60 (0.58 to 0.61) and negative predictive value of 1.00 (0.99 to 1.00); and a score > 4 had a sensitivity of 0.41 (0.28 to 0.54), a specificity of 0.93 (0.92 to 0.94) and a positive predictive value of 0.11 (0.07 to 0.16). The present study aims to prospectively validate the revised HOME-CoV score, firstly, in identifying a subgroup of COVID-19 patients with a low risk of evolution to severe COVID-19 and who could be safely treated at home. For this purpose, we will perform an interventional multicentric prospective pragmatic cohort study with implementation of the revised HOME-CoV score to triage COVID-19 patients.

The primary purpose of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of interferon-gamma by subcutaneous injection in complex treatment of patients with co-infection of HIV and pulmonary tuberculosis and to determine the rational of its use.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, adaptive, seamless phase I / II clinical study of the safety and immunogenicity of a recombinant viral vector AAV5-RBD-S vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus infection (COVID-19)

This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of RP7214 in patients with symptomatic mild SARS-CoV-2 infection, having at least one high-risk feature (e.g., age > 60 years, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, chronic lung disease, chronic kidney disease, liver disease, cerebrovascular disease, obesity, cancer) for developing severe Covid-19 illness.

The study aims to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a 2 drugs ART regimen (lamivudine plus dolutegravir) for prevention of mother to child transmission in pregnant women with HIV. 20 pregnant women will be enrolled in this proof of concept protocol. They will be prescribed DTG-3TC (fixed-dose combination), and will be followed up to the end of gestation. Initially, a total of 10 pregnant women will be recruited for the first phase of the study. Once the first phase is successfully completed, 10 additional participants will be included in a second step.

In November 2019, there were a lot of cases of an acute respiratory illness (then named at February 11th as COVID_19) which first case was reported in Wuhan, China,The SARS COV-2 had been spread in a fast way to involve whole world, As it's obvious that Colchicine is a drug that is most commonly and widely used to treat and prevent acute attacks of Gout, other crystal induced arthropathy,colchicine has important role in inhibiting activation of NLRP3 inflammasome these lead to decrease cytokine production , aim of study To evaluate whether colchicine is effective in the treatment of COVID-19 cases. And to measure the effectiveness of colchicine in alleviating and controlling pulmonary and extra pulmonary complications of COVID-19