Prevention of Tuberculosis in Prisons

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if the isoniazid is effective in the prevention of tuberculosis in a prison population, exposed to the high endemicity of the disease.

Timeline

Start

2017-09-04

Primary completion

2019-08-10

Completion

2019-08-10

Outcome

Outcome not reported

Stopped: “Interim analysis showed efficacy less than 2.5%.”

Publications

• Background Banerjee A, Dubnau E, Quemard A, Balasubramanian V, Um KS, Wilson T, Collins D, de Lisle G, Jacobs WR Jr. inhA, a gene encoding a target for isoniazid and ethionamide in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Science. 1994 Jan 14;263(5144):227-30. doi: 10.1126/science.8284673.
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• Background Baussano I, Williams BG, Nunn P, Beggiato M, Fedeli U, Scano F. Tuberculosis incidence in prisons: a systematic review. PLoS Med. 2010 Dec 21;7(12):e1000381. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000381.
• Background BERNSTEIN J, LOTT WA, STEINBERG BA, YALE HL. Chemotherapy of experimental tuberculosis. V. Isonicotinic acid hydrazide (nydrazid) and related compounds. Am Rev Tuberc. 1952 Apr;65(4):357-64. doi: 10.1164/art.1952.65.4.357. No abstract available.
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• Background Brosch R, Gordon SV, Marmiesse M, Brodin P, Buchrieser C, Eiglmeier K, Garnier T, Gutierrez C, Hewinson G, Kremer K, Parsons LM, Pym AS, Samper S, van Soolingen D, Cole ST. A new evolutionary scenario for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Mar 19;99(6):3684-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052548299. Epub 2002 Mar 12.
• Background Carbone Ada S, Paiao DS, Sgarbi RV, Lemos EF, Cazanti RF, Ota MM, Junior AL, Bampi JV, Elias VP, Simionatto S, Motta-Castro AR, Pompilio MA, de Oliveira SM, Ko AI, Andrews JR, Croda J. Active and latent tuberculosis in Brazilian correctional facilities: a cross-sectional study. BMC Infect Dis. 2015 Jan 22;15:24. doi: 10.1186/s12879-015-0764-8.
• Background Comas I, Coscolla M, Luo T, Borrell S, Holt KE, Kato-Maeda M, Parkhill J, Malla B, Berg S, Thwaites G, Yeboah-Manu D, Bothamley G, Mei J, Wei L, Bentley S, Harris SR, Niemann S, Diel R, Aseffa A, Gao Q, Young D, Gagneux S. Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans. Nat Genet. 2013 Oct;45(10):1176-82. doi: 10.1038/ng.2744. Epub 2013 Sep 1.
• Background Dowdy DW, Golub JE, Chaisson RE, Saraceni V. Heterogeneity in tuberculosis transmission and the role of geographic hotspots in propagating epidemics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jun 12;109(24):9557-62. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1203517109. Epub 2012 May 29.
• Background Estevan AO, Oliveira SM, Croda J. Active and latent tuberculosis in prisoners in the Central-West Region of Brazil. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2013 Jul-Aug;46(4):515-8. doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-1441-2013.
• Background Ferreira MM, Ferrazoli L, Palaci M, Salles PS, Medeiros LA, Novoa P, Kiefer CR, Schechtmann M, Kritski AL, Johnson WD, Riley LW, Ferreira Junior OC. Tuberculosis and HIV infection among female inmates in Sao Paulo, Brazil: a prospective cohort study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol. 1996 Oct 1;13(2):177-83. doi: 10.1097/00042560-199610010-00009.
• Background Fournet N, Sanchez A, Massari V, Penna L, Natal S, Biondi E, Larouze B. Development and evaluation of tuberculosis screening scores in Brazilian prisons. Public Health. 2006 Oct;120(10):976-83. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.06.004. Epub 2006 Sep 11.
• Background FOX HH. The chemical approach to the control of tuberculosis. Science. 1952 Aug 8;116(3006):129-34. doi: 10.1126/science.116.3006.129. No abstract available.
• Background Hanson ML, Comstock GW, Haley CE. Community isoniazid prophylaxis program in an underdeveloped area of Alaska. Public Health Rep (1896). 1967 Dec;82(12):1045-56. No abstract available.
• Background Hershkovitz I, Donoghue HD, Minnikin DE, Besra GS, Lee OY, Gernaey AM, Galili E, Eshed V, Greenblatt CL, Lemma E, Bar-Gal GK, Spigelman M. Detection and molecular characterization of 9,000-year-old Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a Neolithic settlement in the Eastern Mediterranean. PLoS One. 2008;3(10):e3426. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003426. Epub 2008 Oct 15.
• Background Kuhleis D, Ribeiro AW, Costa ER, Cafrune PI, Schmid KB, Costa LL, Ribeiro MO, Zaha A, Rossetti ML. Tuberculosis in a southern Brazilian prison. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2012 Nov;107(7):909-15. doi: 10.1590/s0074-02762012000700012.
• Background Lemos EF, Alves AM, Oliveira Gde C, Rodrigues MP, Martins ND, Croda J. Health-service performance of TB treatment for indigenous and non-indigenous populations in Brazil: a cross-sectional study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2014 May 23;14:237. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-237.
• Background MacIntyre CR, Kendig N, Kummer L, Birago S, Graham NM. Impact of tuberculosis control measures and crowding on the incidence of tuberculous infection in Maryland prisons. Clin Infect Dis. 1997 Jun;24(6):1060-7. doi: 10.1086/513632.
• Background Martinson NA, Barnes GL, Moulton LH, Msandiwa R, Hausler H, Ram M, McIntyre JA, Gray GE, Chaisson RE. New regimens to prevent tuberculosis in adults with HIV infection. N Engl J Med. 2011 Jul 7;365(1):11-20. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1005136.
• Background GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators. Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet. 2015 Jan 10;385(9963):117-71. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2. Epub 2014 Dec 18.
• Background Nerlich AG, Haas CJ, Zink A, Szeimies U, Hagedorn HG. Molecular evidence for tuberculosis in an ancient Egyptian mummy. Lancet. 1997 Nov 8;350(9088):1404. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)65185-9. No abstract available.
• Background Nguyen L, Pieters J. Mycobacterial subversion of chemotherapeutic reagents and host defense tactics: challenges in tuberculosis drug development. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol. 2009;49:427-53. doi: 10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-061008-103123.
• Background Nogueira PA, Abrahao RM, Galesi VM. Tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis in prison inmates. Rev Saude Publica. 2012 Feb;46(1):119-27. doi: 10.1590/s0034-89102011005000080. Epub 2011 Dec 13.
• Background Sacchi FP, Praca RM, Tatara MB, Simonsen V, Ferrazoli L, Croda MG, Suffys PN, Ko AI, Andrews JR, Croda J. Prisons as reservoir for community transmission of tuberculosis, Brazil. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Mar;21(3):452-5. doi: 10.3201/eid2103.140896.
• Background Salpeter SR. Fatal isoniazid-induced hepatitis. Its risk during chemoprophylaxis. West J Med. 1993 Nov;159(5):560-4.
• Background Sanchez A, Massari V, Gerhardt G, Espinola AB, Siriwardana M, Camacho LA, Larouze B. X ray screening at entry and systematic screening for the control of tuberculosis in a highly endemic prison. BMC Public Health. 2013 Oct 20;13:983. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-983.
• Background Sharma SK, Sharma A, Kadhiravan T, Tharyan P. Rifamycins (rifampicin, rifabutin and rifapentine) compared to isoniazid for preventing tuberculosis in HIV-negative people at risk of active TB. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013 Jul 5;2013(7):CD007545. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007545.pub2.
• Background Smieja MJ, Marchetti CA, Cook DJ, Smaill FM. Isoniazid for preventing tuberculosis in non-HIV infected persons. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2000;1999(2):CD001363. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001363.
• Background Sreevatsan S, Pan X, Stockbauer KE, Connell ND, Kreiswirth BN, Whittam TS, Musser JM. Restricted structural gene polymorphism in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex indicates evolutionarily recent global dissemination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 Sep 2;94(18):9869-74. doi: 10.1073/pnas.94.18.9869.
• Background Steingart KR, Ng V, Henry M, Hopewell PC, Ramsay A, Cunningham J, Urbanczik R, Perkins MD, Aziz MA, Pai M. Sputum processing methods to improve the sensitivity of smear microscopy for tuberculosis: a systematic review. Lancet Infect Dis. 2006 Oct;6(10):664-74. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(06)70602-8.
• Background Sterling TR, Villarino ME, Borisov AS, Shang N, Gordin F, Bliven-Sizemore E, Hackman J, Hamilton CD, Menzies D, Kerrigan A, Weis SE, Weiner M, Wing D, Conde MB, Bozeman L, Horsburgh CR Jr, Chaisson RE; TB Trials Consortium PREVENT TB Study Team. Three months of rifapentine and isoniazid for latent tuberculosis infection. N Engl J Med. 2011 Dec 8;365(23):2155-66. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1104875.
• Background Temple ME, Nahata MC. Rifapentine: its role in the treatment of tuberculosis. Ann Pharmacother. 1999 Nov;33(11):1203-10. doi: 10.1345/aph.18450.
• Background THOREN M, HINSHAW HC. Therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis with isoniazid alone and in combination with streptomycin and with para-amino-salicylic acid. Stanford Med Bull. 1952 Nov;10(4):316-8. No abstract available.
• Background Urrego J, Ko AI, da Silva Santos Carbone A, Paiao DS, Sgarbi RV, Yeckel CW, Andrews JR, Croda J. The Impact of Ventilation and Early Diagnosis on Tuberculosis Transmission in Brazilian Prisons. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2015 Oct;93(4):739-46. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0166. Epub 2015 Jul 20.
• Background Vieira AA, Ribeiro SA, de Siqueira AM, Galesi VM, dos Santos LA, Golub JE. Prevalence of patients with respiratory symptoms through active case finding and diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis among prisoners and related predictors in a jail in the city of Carapicuiba, Brazil. Rev Bras Epidemiol. 2010 Dec;13(4):641-50. doi: 10.1590/s1415-790x2010000400009.
• Background Zumla A, George A, Sharma V, Herbert RH; Baroness Masham of Ilton; Oxley A, Oliver M. The WHO 2014 global tuberculosis report--further to go. Lancet Glob Health. 2015 Jan;3(1):e10-2. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70361-4. No abstract available.
• Background Al-Darraji HA, Kamarulzaman A, Altice FL. Isoniazid preventive therapy in correctional facilities: a systematic review. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2012 Jul;16(7):871-9. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.11.0447. Epub 2012 Mar 7.
• Background Barrera, L. The basics of clinical bacteriology Tuberculosis (2007): 93-112.
• Background Daniel TM. The history of tuberculosis. Respir Med. 2006 Nov;100(11):1862-70. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2006.08.006. Epub 2006 Sep 1.
• Background Porter JD, McAdam KP. The re-emergence of tuberculosis. Annu Rev Public Health. 1994;15:303-23. doi: 10.1146/annurev.pu.15.050194.001511.
• Background Nunn P, Williams B, Floyd K, Dye C, Elzinga G, Raviglione M. Tuberculosis control in the era of HIV. Nat Rev Immunol. 2005 Oct;5(10):819-26. doi: 10.1038/nri1704.
• Background Schluger NW, Rom WN. The host immune response to tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1998 Mar;157(3 Pt 1):679-91. doi: 10.1164/ajrccm.157.3.9708002. No abstract available.

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