Active clinical trials for "Tuberculosis, Pulmonary"

Tuberculosis is the current leading cause of death due to an identifiable infectious agent worldwide. The current standard regimen for tuberculosis requires a patient to take drug combination (isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide) for six to eight month periods. The purpose of this study is to compare tuberculosis treatment therapy between the current standard regimen and PRS derived combinatorial regimen. PRS derived regimen may potentially allow for a shorter course of treatment, which may reduce problems associated with adherence, toxicity, and development of drug resistance.

The purpose of this study is to determine the mycobactericidal activity of combinations of bedaquiline (J), moxifloxacin (M), PA-824 (Pa) and pyrazinamide (Z) regimens during 8 weeks of treatment.

This trial will evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), and efficacy of multiple oral doses of OPC-167832 in subjects with uncomplicated, smear-positive, drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).

In this trial, the investigators are assessing whether giving an increased dose of rifampicin to patients receiving the standard treatment for tuberculosis is safe and, when given for 4 months only, will also result in greater and faster killing of the tubercle bacillus in the lungs and result in relapse rates similar to those found in the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended standard 6 month regimen.

The overall goal of this exploratory proof-of-concept study is to determine whether, in participants with pulmonary tuberculosis caused by M. tuberculosis (MTB) with or without rifampin resistance-conferring rpoB-gene mutations, the combination of meropenem and amoxicillin/clavulanate with rifampin has greater early bactericidal activity (EBA) than the combination of meropenem and amoxicillin/clavulanate without rifampin. Funding Source- FDA OOPD.

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of single and multiple doses of TBA-7371 in healthy subjects

This study will evaluate the effect of adding metronidazole to standard second-line therapy for tuberculosis in patients who have multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) of the lungs. It will evaluate the safety and tolerability of metronidazole in combination with antituberculosis agents. Metronidazole is a drug widely used to treat bacterial and parasitic infections occurring in environments with very little oxygen such as the human colon. Nine million new cases of sputum-positive tuberculosis are diagnosed worldwide each year. Patients ages 20 and older who have symptoms of TB, who have been treated for tuberculosis but whose disease is multi-drug resistant, and who are not pregnant or breast feeding may be eligible for this study. They will be recruited in the National Masan Tuberculosis Hospital (NMTH), Masan, Republic of Korea. Patients will undergo the following tests and procedures: Collection of sputum for counting of bacteria. Drawing of blood for routine blood chemistry analysis; for measuring levels of metronidazole; TB lipid analysis; and for testing levels of T-cells, which are part of an immune response. Two targeted positron emission tomography (PET) scans, each with a computed tomography (CT) scan, and five high-resolution CT scans. Patients will receive either an 8-week course of standard second-line agents plus placebo (sugar pill) or an 8-week course of standard agents plus metronidazole. The subjects, doctors and researchers will not know which patients are taking the metronidazole until after the first 2 years of the trial. A total of 60 patients will be assigned to two cohorts of 30 patients each. After 8 weeks, all patients will return to the standard of care chemotherapy, according to normal procedures at NMTH. Side effects of metronidazole commonly reported are vaginal discharge, symptoms of Candida cervicitis and vaginitis, headache, nausea and vomiting, and dizziness. Peripheral neuropathy, an abnormal condition of the nerves, may also be a side effect. The precise incidence of neuropathy is unknown but is usually related to the duration of metronidazole use. It can almost always be reversed when the drug is discontinued. Serious side effects, though rare, may include leukopenia and thrombocytopenia (disorders in the blood), seizures and other central nervous system problems, and hepatitis. This study may or may not have a direct benefit for participants. However, it is possible that patients' drug-resistant disease may be more effectively treated as a result of metronidazole. The study may help identify new methods for measuring drug effectiveness during TB studies.

The purpose of this study is to elucidate whether the individualized medicine based on NAT2 gene polymorphism could improve the safety, efficacy and economical benefits of multi-drug therapy for the pulmonary tuberculosis with isoniazid.

The purpose of the study is to study the efficacy and safety of Mycobacterium in treating patients with lung tuberculosis . Mycobacterium is a strain of bacterium which is used as a vaccine and an adjuvant drug against leprosy. This agent has also been found to be effective in the treatment of lung tuberculosis in a limited number of patients. The researchers are conducting this study in the World Health Organization (WHO) category-II of lung tuberculosis patients to see the efficacy and also to see any change in immunological parameters.

To evaluate the methodology for rapidly determining the early bactericidal activity (EBA), tolerance, and pharmacokinetics of isoniazid and levofloxacin in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Traditionally, in trials for treatment of TB, a new drug is administered in combination with two or more other antituberculous agents of known effectiveness over a long period of time. In this setting, it is difficult to determine the effect of any single drug or dose level. Development of new agents for the treatment of TB may be accelerated by a methodology in which a new agent could be evaluated for activity by administering it as a single agent over a short time period. This study utilizes a method to measure the amount of bacteria present each day in the lungs.