Active clinical trials for "Urinary Tract Infections"

To collect clinical response data with the use of ertapenem in approved indications.

After spinal cord injury, patients have frequent urinary tract infections (UVI). Vitamin C is usually prescribed to prevent such infection, but the efficacy of the treatment is poorly documented. In the study, patients will be randomised either to receive vitamin C daily, or not, for one year, and clinical episodes of UVI will be registered. The null hypothesis is that vitamin C will not reduce the number of UVI episodes by 30%.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of intravenous CXA 101 and comparator in complicated urinary tract infection

The purpose of the study is to compare the safety and effectiveness of oral levofloxacin (an antibiotic) with that of oral lomefloxacin in the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections in adults.

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common infection in patients with SCI and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in this population. The bladder of patients with SCI, especially those who have indwelling catheters, is often colonized by bacteria that may or may not cause symptoms of UTI. Bacteria that do not cause symptoms are usually considered benign colonizers and are often left untreated because they may afford some protection against symptomatic infection with more harmful bacteria. We applied the concept of using benign bacteria to prevent symptomatic infection, so-called bacterial interference, by deliberately colonizing the bladder of patients with SCI with a non-pathogenic prototype of Escherichia coli (strain 83972). The preliminary results of our VA-funded study that compared the rates of symptomatic UTI in patients with SCI while colonized with E. coli 83972 vs. historical rates of symptomatic UTI prior to study enrollment indicated that deliberate colonization of the bladder of patients with SCI with E. coli 83972 is safe and very promising as to its ability to prevent symptomatic UTI. However, before this innovative approach of bacterial interference can be successfully applied in the population of patients with SCI, it is essential to: (A) confirm the ultimate efficacy of bacterial interference by conducting a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial (objective #1); and (B) enhance the practicality of applying this innovative approach in SCI patients by delineating the bacterial and host factors that can promote successful colonization with E. coli 83972 (objectives #2-3).

The number of care home residents is increasing and urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common amongst this group. Accurate diagnosis of UTI is important because not treating an infection may lead to serious consequences including death. However, giving antibiotic treatment when there isn't an infection causes side effects and antibiotic resistance, making future infections harder to treat. Unfortunately, there are several challenges that mean that it is difficult to diagnose UTI accurately in care home residents. Firstly, UTIs don't always cause clear symptoms for people who live in care homes. They sometimes just cause symptoms like confusion which can have lots of different possible causes. Secondly, it may be hard for people living with dementia to say how they are feeling or to easily provide a urine sample. Thirdly, many people who live in care homes have bacteria present in their urine even when they are well, but this not harmful and does not need treatment. Finally, urine tests that are currently available do not give accurate or quick results. We have thought about some new ways that might help show us if someone in a care home really has a UTI but we don't know yet whether these will work. Our ideas include 1) Working out which symptoms or signs mean a UTI is more likely 2) Detecting new markers of infection in urine samples and 3) Trying out new bedside tests that give rapid results. For this study we plan to recruit 100 care home residents who will be followed up over 6 months. All 100 participants will provide information and a urine sample at the beginning of the study. 25 of these participants will also provide repeated weekly samples for 4 weeks to look at any changes in the urine over time. Additional information and urine samples will be collected if a participant develops a possible UTI during the study and any treatments will be recorded. Our findings will be used to develop a funding application for a larger study aiming to improve the diagnosis of UTI in care home residents.

This randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study investigated the efficacy and safety of the herbal medicinal product containing a combination of extracts of restharrow root (Ononidis radix), Java tea (Orthosiphonis folium) and goldenrod herb (Solidaginis herba) in women with acute lower uUTI.

This is a randomized controlled trial to determine if there is a difference between chlorhexidine gluconate and povidone iodine vaginal preparations for urogynecological surgery post operative infections.

prulifloxacin is not inferior to levofloxacin hydrochloride in treating acute uncomplicated lower urinary tract infection in chinese

The primary objective of this pilot study is to demonstrate the feasibility of recruiting eligible patients for the purposes of assessing the temporal aspects and rates of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI), based on the agreed-upon case definition so that the numbers needed for a pivotal study can be better estimated.