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Study design: A placebo-controlled adaptive multi-center randomized controlled trial.
Study population: High risk HCW with direct patient contacts, defined as physician assistants, respiratory therapists, nurses, physicians or other HCWs working at emergency rooms, ICUs and in locations within
In a 4-week crossover study in 38 patients with COPD, roflumilast 500μg daily significantly reduced sputum absolute neutrophil count, IL-8 and neutrophil elastase compared with placebo treatment. Interestingly, the mechanism of anti-neutrophilic inflammation with roflumilast treatment in patients
meningitis is a notifiable disease in many countries, the exact incidence rate is unknown. In 2013 meningitis resulted in 303,000 deaths - down from 464,000 deaths in 1990. In 2010 it was estimated that meningitis resulted in 420,000 deaths, excluding cryptococcal meningitis.
Bacterial meningitis
Study aim, background, and design
Herpes Zoster (Shingles) is a major cause of pain and expense to the elderly and chronically ill. The incidence is estimated at 3 in 1,000 patients. Zostavax™ is a high dose, live varicella vaccine that has been validated in very large placebo control trials to
Study design This was a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial among children with a presumptive diagnosis of acute migraine in the ED. The study was approved by the institutional IRB and written informed assent and consent were obtained by the patient and a parent respectively,
1. INTRODUCTION AND RATIONALE
The live attenuated Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine protects against extrapulmonary infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and against leprosy [1, 2]. It has been shown that vaccination with BCG also leads to non-specific protective effects: early
Schizophrenia is a chronic, debilitating disorder with life-long consequences on affected individuals and families. Schizophrenia is also associated with impaired cognition or thinking, which persists despite currently available treatments, and is an important determinant of quality of life and
Tissue-invasive helminth parasites infect close to 500 million people worldwide and are associated with strong T helper (Th)2 responses and regulatory networks that downregulate potentially protective Th1 responses. The two common tissue invasive helminth parasites are Wuchereria bancrofti, that
Study Design:
This is a Phase I, randomized study in healthy younger (18-50 years) and older (51-70 years) adults. For each age group, the study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of a prime-boost vaccination regimen against the seasonal influenza virus with an
Some attempts have been made to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of lopinavir using ritonavir as booster by some researchers with dosages of 400/100 and 533/133 mg (the last dosage would be achieved with an additional capsule of lopinavir/ritonavir) but the results were disappointing because AUC was
Over the last 3 years, the McShane group in Oxford have established a clinical trial programme to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of this BCG prime-MVA85A boost vaccination strategy in a series of Phase I studies in the UK.
To date, in Oxford, the safety and immunogenicity of MVA85A (dose
Prime-boost immunization strategies Heterologous prime-boost immunization strategies involve giving two different vaccines, each encoding the same antigen, several weeks apart. Using a DNA prime-recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) boost induces higher levels of antigen specific CD4+ and
BACKGROUND:
Despite significant in vitro data that metronidazole is active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) maintained under anaerobic conditions, the utility of this agent has not been evaluated carefully in human disease due to lack of efficacy in murine models of tuberculosis (TB). Unlike