Active clinical trials for "Communicable Diseases"

Otitis media is more common in young children and it is estimated that 75% of all children experience at least one episode before the age of three. Otitis media is one of the common pediatric diagnoses and recurrent episodes account for the most commonly performed surgical procedure. Despite this a high degree of inaccuracy exists in diagnosis of this condition which depends on subjective assessment of the ear drum via direct visualization using an otoscope. Researcher can use Diffuse optical spectroscopy and diffuse optical imaging for the analysis of ear drum and the middle ear.

The purpose of this epidemiologic study is to estimate the prevalence and incidence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in at-risk, exposed, affected populations. The study will also estimate the risk of SARS-CoV-2 exposure in target population.

The quality of life of carriers detected infected or colonized by emerging highly resistant bacteria (BHRe) following the implementation of specific hygiene measures during the discovery of the microorganism has been little studied. To date, there have been no studies to determine the quality of life (QoL) in France of patients with hospitalized HBHRD.

Inpatients will be prospectively have nares screened and MRSA strains collected. All clinical MRSA strains of patients will also be prospectively collected. A sensitive strain discrimination test of spa typing will be used to determine if the strains are related. Hypotheses are Strain colonization durations vary and may be very short in days to weeks. Colonizing strains rarely infect 3) Both 1 and 2 may be affected by the patient's co-morbidity.

Expanded access may be provided for cefiderocol for qualified patients who have limited treatment options and are not eligible for a clinical trial.

Arbekacin for the use of infection caused by multidrug-resistant organisms

Subjects have a type of blood cell cancer, other blood disease or a genetic disease for which they received a stem cell transplant. After transplant while the immune system grows back the subjects have an infection with one or more of three viruses - Epstein Barr virus (EBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV) or adenovirus - that has persisted or come back despite standard therapy. Adenovirus is a virus that causes symptoms of a common cold normally but can cause serious life-threatening infections in patients who have weak immune systems. It usually affects the lungs and can cause a very serious pneumonia, but it can also affect the gut, the liver, the pancreas and the eyes. CMV is a virus that can also cause serious infections in patients with suppressed immune systems. It usually affects the lungs and can cause a very serious pneumonia, but it can also affect the intestinal tract, the liver and the eyes. Approximately 2/3 of normal people harbor this virus in their body. In healthy people CMV rarely causes any problems because the immune system can keep it under control. If the subject and/or the subject's donor are positive for CMV, s/he is at risk of developing CMV disease while his/her immune system is weak post transplant. EBV is the virus that causes glandular fever or kissing disease. It is also normally controlled by a healthy immune system, but when the immune system is weak, it can cause fevers, enlarged lymph nodes and sometimes develop into a type of cancer called lymphoma. This treatment with specially trained T cells (called CTLs) has had activity against these viruses when the cells are made from the transplant donor. However, as it takes 2-3 months to make the cells, that approach is not practical when the subject already has an infection. We want to find out if we can use CTLs which have already been made from another donor that match the subject and his/her donor as closely as possible and if the CTLs will last in the body and have activity against these viruses. In a recent study these cells were given to 50 patients with viral infections post transplant and over 70% had a complete or partial response. The purpose of this study is to make CTL lines leftover from that previous study available to patients with viral infections that have not responded to standard treatments. These virus-specific CTLs are an investigational product not approved by the FDA.

The Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) product PRIM-DJ2727 is prepared from human stool from a healthy, screened donor. Requestors will contact the study team about the product (PRIM-DJ2727) by email, visit, or phone call. A screening list for donors will be provided to make sure that the list fits the requestor's requirements. A basic fee will be requested to recover the cost of making the product. After an agreement is made, a contract will be signed between the 2 parties. A week before the treatment, requestors will contact the study team for possible FMT product delivery. Delivery method will be confirmed for delivery by personnel (within 10 minutes driving distance) or by using FedEx services. Each delivered product will have an approved delivery form signed and dated by both the person who prepared the delivery and the person who received the package.

The primary objective of this study is to provide expanded access of remdesivir (RDV) for the treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) infection.

An Expanded Access Program for UROMUNE® for patients suffering from recurrent/chronic urinary tract infections of diverse etiology. This is for individuals for whom antibiotic therapy has failed, but of consideration in all cases, taking into account antibiotic-induced adverse reactions and increasing antibiotic resistance.