Active clinical trials for "Staphylococcal Infections"

Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that lives commonly in the anterior nostrils, is seen in about 30% of healthcare workers. Applying mupirocin ointment, a prescription, to the nostrils twice daily for 5 days is the current standard of care for treatment to clear this bacteria. This research study is designed to determine the rate of clearance of this bacteria in healthcare workers who are carriers when using triple antibiotic ointment instead of mupirocin ointment.

Patients admitted into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) have an intravenous (IV) catheter (small plastic tube) placed in their vein. Very occasionally (4 times out of 100) the insertion of an intravenous catheter may cause an infection in the blood. It has been shown that the removal of the catheter and the insertion of a new one at a new site helps to get rid of this infection. Sometimes, antibiotics are also given. Vancomycin is the antibiotic given intravenously (into the vein) to treat these catheter-related infections. At Vancouver General Hospital, some physicians may not give any vancomycin at all whereas others may treat with intravenous (IV) vancomycin for one to fourteen days. Since there are a lack of data to support the length of IV vancomycin therapy, the investigators would like to find out if two days of IV vancomycin are as good as seven days. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine if two days of IV vancomycin are as good as seven days for the treatment of catheter-related infections in the blood.

The purpose of this study is to determine how monocyte HLA-DR and other markers of immune function change with time in patients with and without prior immune dysfunction who survive sepsis from Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. We hypothesize that patients with prior immune dysfunction will have greater reductions in HLA-DR and other markers of immune function after an episode of sepsis than people who do not have prior immune dysfunction.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of pre-surgical patients who are MRSA carriers. From an evidence-based practice perspective, findings from this study can be considered in the evaluation of the hospital SOP mandating pre-surgical MRSA screening requirements for patients with scheduled surgeries. The central hypothesis to be addressed in this study is whether the MRSA colonization and subsequent post-operative infection are the equivalent in these populations.

This study evaluates safety and tolerability of endolysin-derived LSVT-1701 (tonabacase) as an add-on to standard of care (SOC) antibiotic therapy for the treatment of patients with complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB), including left- and right-sided infective endocarditis (IE).

The purpose of this study is to conduct a randomized clinical trial to compare an antibiotic strategy based on a novel diagnostic test, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to usual care, in critically ill adults with pneumonia suspected to be caused by methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The investigators hypothesize that when automated PCR is used to guide antibiotic therapy, antibiotic exposure will be reduced in critically ill subjects with pneumonia.

This study evaluates the feasibility of targeting more frequent gown and glove use for specific high risk moments of care in specific nursing home residents in order to prevent Staphylococcus aureus (SA) acquisition and infection.

Before this study, there will be an open-label, dose-escalation pilot study with a total of 30 participants with 10 per dosage group. The aim of the pilot study is to explore the preliminary safety of an experimental recombinant staphylococcus aureus vaccine. This is a single center, double-blind, placebo control, dose-escalation phase 1 clinical trial. This study will determine the safety and side-effect profile, and immunogenicity of an experimental recombinant staphylococcus aureus vaccine. The study will be carried out following a dose-escalation method from the low dosage to the high dosage, i.e. the higher dosage vaccine could only be administrated after the first seven-day safety of the lower dosage vaccine is confirmed after safety observation.

This is a Phase 1 and Phase 2 study of a single vaccination with one of three dose levels of a 4-antigen investigational vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus (SA4Ag) and a single dose level of a 3-antigen Staphylococcus aureus vaccine (SA3Ag). The main goal of the study is to determine how safe and well tolerated the vaccine is as well as to describe the immune response elicited by the vaccine in healthy adults aged 65 to <86 years. In addition, the study aims to assess the effect of the Staphylococcus aureus vaccine on the presence of the Staphylococcus aureus within the nose, throat and perineal skin of healthy adults aged 65 to <86 years.

This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study is a first-in-human Phase 1 study using two dose levels of an investigational vaccine directed against S. aureus and Candida. The study is designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the investigational vaccine, NDV-3