Rapid Characterization of Paucibacillary TB Along Tex/Mex Border
Completed
Conditions studied: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
In brief
This study will test a method of detecting tuberculosis-causing bacteria that are resistant to current medication treatments. Blood samples will be collected from patients from 3 sites and 3 mainly Hispanic populations in Texas, Mexico, and Colombia. Up to 780 males and females, ages 18-85 years, will participate. The study population will consist of 390 people with any of 3 forms of tuberculosis (TB) and 390 people who are either healthy or with a disease initially thought to be one of these 3 forms of TB but then ruled out. Volunteers will only be contacted, invited to participate and interviewed at the beginning of their evaluation for possible TB.The study team will follow up with the health department to determine if the volunteer was indeed diagnosed with TB, and with the laboratory to determine the results of TB tests at diagnosis and during the course of treatment.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00421798
- Run by
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
- People needed
- 780
- Starts
- 2007-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2009-05-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2009-07-09
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- For Cases and Controls:
- Informed consent obtained and signed
- Older than 18 years of age, up to 85 years of age
- Unique to Cases:
- Suspicion of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis, lymphatic tuberculosis or pleural tuberculosis
- Unique to Controls:
- Initial suspicion of tuberculosis (as described under cases) but diagnosis eventually ruled out through further testing
- Patient with another pathology where specimen similar to that collected for the cases is also obtained, and leftover material is available for this study; example- lymph node biopsy from a patient with cancer
You may not qualify if…
- Patient having received more than 14 days of anti-mycobacterial treatment
- Less than 18 years old
- Prisoner or jail inmate
Where it is running
- The University of Texas at Brownsville — Brownsville, Texas, United States
- Corporacion para Investigaciones Biologicas de Medellin — Medellín, Colombia
- Jurisdicción Sanitaria III Matamoros — Matamoros, Mexico
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