Outpatient Registry Trial of Respiratory Tract Infections in Adults

Withdrawn before enrolling · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Pneumonia, Bacterial, Bronchitis, Chronic

In brief

To measure the speed of bacterial eradication from the respiratory tract after administration of azithromycin or telithromycin.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00245453

Run by

CPL Associates

People needed

0

Starts

2005-10-01

Expected to finish

2006-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-07-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adult patients, either males or non-pregnant females, aged 18 to 75 years of age with clinical findings of CAP or AECB who are amenable to serial nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal sampling and having positive Binax-NOW tests indicating infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae
• Patients with a medical history and clinical findings consistent with a respiratory tract infection. A patient with advanced COPD, repeated exacerbations by history, a BINAX-NOW test consistent with S. pneumoniae and/or proven culture positivity for S. pneumoniae may be enrolled
• All patients (CAP or AECB) must produce purulent sputum and be positive on the Urinary BINAX-NOW assay.
• The female patient of child bearing potential must agree to use an accepted method of contraception (i.e., oral or implanted contraceptive with a barrier method, spermicide and barrier methods, or IUD). The patient must agree to continue with the same method throughout the study.

You may not qualify if…

• Baseline sputum cultures known to be negative for S. pneumoniae, or negative urinary BINAX-NOW.
• Patients with a microbiologically documented pathogen known prior to inclusion to be resistant to any of the study medications.
• History of hypersensitivity to macrolides, azalides, ketolide antibiotics or history of serious hypersensitivity reaction to any drug.
• Pre-existing impaired hepatic function or impaired renal function CCL <20ml/min
• Patients who will require on-study treatment with medications known to have contraindicated drug interactions with telithromycin
• Treatment with more than one dose of an antimicrobial prior to entry into the study
• Others as per protocol

Where it is running

• Western Kentucky Pulmonary Clinic — Louisville, Kentucky, United States
• Northshore Research Associates — Slidell, Louisiana, United States

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