Active clinical trials for "Latent Tuberculosis"

Hypotheses: Rifapentine (given as water-dispersible monolayer and/or fixed dose combination with isoniazid) dosing in HIV-infected and uninfected children ≤ 12 years of age with latent TB infection (LTBI) or with exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) will require higher mg/kg rifapentine dosing than adults to achieve adult- exposures which are correlated with efficacy in trials of TB prevention. Investigators further hypothesize that rifapentine will be safe and well-tolerated in HIV-infected and uninfected children who require treatment for LTBI.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a novel and scalable intervention that combines Video Directly Observed Therapy (vDOT) and financial incentives to promote completion of treatment for latent tuberculosis. Adult participants who are initiating treatment for latent tuberculosis will be recruited from the Baltimore City Health Department. The primary hypothesis is that the incentive intervention will increase the percentage of participants that complete the treatment for latent tuberculosis above the completion rates of participants receiving usual care.

HIV-infected people have an increased risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB). To reduce the burden of TB among people living with HIV (PLHIV), the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends systematic TB screening followed by 1) confirmatory TB testing for all those who screen positive and 2) TB preventive therapy (TPT) for all TPT-eligible PLHIV who screen negative. The objective of the TB Screening Improves Preventive Therapy Uptake (TB SCRIPT) trial is to determine whether TB screening based on C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, measured using a rapid and low-cost point-of-care (POC) assay, improves TPT uptake and clinical outcomes of PLHIV, relative to symptom-based TB screening.

This five-year study will evaluate two strategies for conducting tuberculosis (TB) active case finding (ACF) and linkage to TB treatment or TB preventive therapy (TPT) in peri-urban Uganda. The two strategies differ in the location where ACF activities are performed: A "facility-based" ACF/TPT strategy will perform ACF, plus linkage to TPT, in the immediate vicinity of a large public health facility and will primarily recruit individuals who are attending the health facility, irrespective of TB suspicion or symptoms. Alternatively, a "hotspot-based" strategy will use routine notification data and local expertise to identify local TB hotspots - defined as the geographic areas though to have the highest burden of undiagnosed TB per estimated population. The same infrastructure (personnel, equipment, supplies, etc.) for ACF/TPT will then be placed in those zones for a period of four months at a time, and the general population will be recruited for screening and linkage to TPT. The two interventions will be compared in a Type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial with a cluster-randomized, multiple-period crossover design. The study will evaluate whether hotspot-focused ACF/TPT results in a greater number of TB patients diagnosed and linked to care, and a greater number of individuals started on preventive therapy, than facility-based ACF/TPT. Secondarily, it will also compare the two interventions in terms of number of people initiated on TPT, and it will compare TB cases detected in regions performing ACF/TPT (either approach) against cases detected in regions that continue to perform the standard of care.

A multicenter, randomized, blind, controlled trial design was used to select 240 tuberculosis (TB) patients, 120 non-tuberculous community population with other lung diseases, and 420 healthy community population without other lung diseases who met the inclusion criteria of this study. Blood supply specific gamma-interferon (T-SPOT) detection was performed first. Then, EC and Purified Protein derivation of tuberculin (TB-PPD) skin tests were performed on both arms, and the recorded results were observed. The first 24 cases of TB patients, the first 12 cases of non-tuberculous community population with other lung diseases, and the first 42 cases of healthy community population without other lung diseases were included in the trial subgroup. Physical examination, blood routine, urine routine, liver and kidney function, and electrocardiogram tests were required before and 7 days after skin test after study number assignment.

The purpose of this research is to find out if a single dose of pre-travel vaccination with BCG can lessen tuberculosis (TB) infection by producing an immune response when given to adults traveling to countries with a high burden of TB. BCG will be compared with a placebo (an inactive vaccine). BCG (Japan) is used globally but is not approved for use in the United States, therefore it is considered experimental. Participants choosing to take part in this research study, will be randomly assigned (this is like a coin flip) to BCG or placebo. 2000 eligible volunteers will be enrolled.

The investigators want to know if ultra-short, effective treatment for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI) could dramatically reduce the global incidence of active TB or not. The investigators hypothesize that short-course (4-week) daily isoniazid/rifapentine (INH/RPT) (1HP) is not inferior to standard -course (12 weeks) INH/RPT weekly regimen (3HP) for the prevention of TB in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals.

This is a prospective, multi-center, open-label, cluster randomized controlled clinical trial conducted in school settings to estimate the non-inferiority effect of 1H3P3 compared with 3HR.

Cohort 1 was a randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial with a planned enrollment of 500 patients. Cohort 2 is a non-randomized, open-label clinical trial with a planned enrollment of approximately 60000 patients. Cohort I was injected with EC and TB-PPD in both arms, and cohort II was injected with EC only

This study used a randomized, open, blank control design. A total of 6800 patients over 15 years old with latent mycobacterium tuberculosis infection who met the inclusion criteria but did not meet the exclusion criteria were randomly assigned to the experimental group and the blank control group in a 1:1 ratio, with 3400 patients in each group. The experimental group was alternately injected with 1 dose of microcard every two weeks (0-2-4-6-8-10 weeks) in the left and right hip muscle deep, with a total of 6 doses. The blank control group was not injected with drugs.