Active clinical trials for "Tuberculosis"

This study will assess the safety and immunogenicity of a GSK Biologicals' candidate TB vaccine administered at 0, 1 months to healthy adults living in a TB-endemic region. The Protocol Posting has been updated in order to comply with the FDA Amendment Act, Sep 2007.

This is a doble-blind, masked, compared with placebo clinical trial in pediatric population in contact with tuberculosis with or without tuberculosis infection. This trial aims to study the effect of the probiotic Nyaditum resae® at the level of specific Treg memory cells eight weeks after the first administration, and the global tolerability of the treatment. Nyaditum resae® is a preparation in the form of capsules containing heat-killed environmental mycobacteria Mycobacterium manresensis. The overall objective of the study is the effect of Nyaditum resae® on immunity, which could reduce the risk of developing active tuberculosis.

To achieve TB control, innovative case finding interventions are needed that will reach the broader affected population including those that do not access the health facilities. Systematic community case finding with highly sensitive screening and diagnostic tools are needed. At the facility level, the index of suspicion for TB by health care workers needs to be raised to ensure that all those that need TB screening are appropriately screened.

The purpose of this study is to use a cluster randomized trial to compare the effectiveness of linking the Quantiferon-gold in-tube test (QGIT) with routine CD4 testing to the routine use of the tuberculin skin test (TST), the current standard of care for diagnosing latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in South Africa. The investigators hypothesize that QGIT clinics will identify LTBI and initiate isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) in a higher proportion of patients and in a significantly faster timeframe. The cost-effectiveness of linking QGIT with routine CD4 compared to routine TST will also be evaluated, and the process of implementation of QGIT into the routine cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) blood draw will be evaluated using a mixed method approach to identify steps that can be modified for future scale-up of the intervention.

The available live tuberculosis vaccine Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) provides incomplete protection against pulmonary tuberculosis. For unknown reasons, a BCG revaccination or "booster", while not toxic, does not provide much additional protection. AERAS-402 presents tuberculosis antigens in the setting of a new, live, replication deficient adenovirus vaccine that may increase T cell immunity and thus protection from tuberculosis. Since BCG-vaccinated individuals are the population for which AERAS-402 might be indicated, AERAS-402 will be administered to individuals in Kenya who have already been vaccinated with BCG.

Choose healthy subjects and patients with TB, distribute them into different dose groups according to the recombinant EC allergen dose from low to high average. Conducting clinical trials of TB-PPD or placebo as controlled arms intradermal injection. Do specific interferon gamma detection before the skin test，after the test 72h±2h and 144h±2h. Evaluate the safety of the recombinant EC allergy , and provide the appropriate dose range for phase IIb clinical trials.

This trial will investigate the administration of two new tuberculosis vaccines, called AERAS-402 and MVA85A. The purpose of this trial is to assess what happens when both of these vaccines are given one after the other. The trial will assess the safety of both vaccines and also their ability to stimulate an immune response within the body. It is hoped that when these two vaccines are given in sequence, the combined immune response is even better than when each vaccine is used individually.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the protective efficacy of two doses of GSK Biologicals' candidate TB vaccine against pulmonary TB, as compared to placebo. The efficacy will be evaluated in adults living in TB endemic countries and aged 18 - 50 years because pulmonary TB occurs frequently in these countries and age range. In addition, the safety and immunogenicity of the candidate tuberculosis vaccine will be evaluated in a subset of volunteers.

Mycobacterium Vaccae for Injection (Trade Name "Vaccae") is a kind of bio-products developed by Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical Co.,Ltd.,and got "The New Drug Certificate "in 1999. Vaccae has been approved for adjuvant therapy of tuberculosis(TB), and is also the only recommended drug in TB immunotherapy by WHO. It was approved for production and sale by Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical Co.,Ltd. in 2001, and got favourable comment in therapy of tuberculosis. The purpose of this study is to add new indications for Vaccae, mainly to prevent Tuberculosis for high risk groups of Tuberculosis Infection . In December 2012, China Food and Drug Administration approved of the plan "Phase III Clinical Study of Efficacy and Safety of Mycobacterium Vaccae to Prevent Tuberculosis in high risk groups of Tuberculosis Infection". In the test, 10,000 cases whose skin tests of PPD are strongly positive are enrolled. Using random, double-blind, and placebo-controlled methods, the study is carried out to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Vaccae in preventing Tuberculosis. Meanwhile, in this test, TB incidence and degree of pathological changes of experimental group are lower than that of control group, and no drug-related SAEs are reported in treatment groups.

This Phase I study will be conducted as a randomized, double-blind, dose-escalation study in five groups of healthy adult male and female subjects who are BCG-vaccinated, HIV-negative, and have no evidence of tuberculosis infection. Since BCG-vaccinated individuals are the target population for which AERAS 404 might be indicated, AERAS 404 will be administered to individuals already vaccinated with BCG