Efficacy and Safety of Isoniazid, Rifampicin and Moxifloxacin for the Intensive Phase of Initial Therapy of PTB

Summary

This study aims to find an optimized initial regimen for pulmonary tuberculosis(PTB), evaluating the efficacy, safety and acceptability of isoniazid, rifampicin and moxifloxacin(HRM) for the intensive phase of initial therapy of PTB, compared with the standard initial regimen.

Timeline

Start

2020-03-01

Primary completion

2023-02-01

Completion

2024-02-01

Publications

• Background Tiberi S, du Plessis N, Walzl G, Vjecha MJ, Rao M, Ntoumi F, Mfinanga S, Kapata N, Mwaba P, McHugh TD, Ippolito G, Migliori GB, Maeurer MJ, Zumla A. Tuberculosis: progress and advances in development of new drugs, treatment regimens, and host-directed therapies. Lancet Infect Dis. 2018 Jul;18(7):e183-e198. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30110-5. Epub 2018 Mar 23.
• Background Lange C, Chesov D, Heyckendorf J, Leung CC, Udwadia Z, Dheda K. Drug-resistant tuberculosis: An update on disease burden, diagnosis and treatment. Respirology. 2018 Jul;23(7):656-673. doi: 10.1111/resp.13304. Epub 2018 Apr 11.
• Background Pasipanodya JG, Gumbo T. A meta-analysis of self-administered vs directly observed therapy effect on microbiologic failure, relapse, and acquired drug resistance in tuberculosis patients. Clin Infect Dis. 2013 Jul;57(1):21-31. doi: 10.1093/cid/cit167. Epub 2013 Mar 13.
• Background Egelund EF, Alsultan A, Peloquin CA. Optimizing the clinical pharmacology of tuberculosis medications. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2015 Oct;98(4):387-93. doi: 10.1002/cpt.180. Epub 2015 Jul 22.
• Background Pienaar E, Sarathy J, Prideaux B, Dietzold J, Dartois V, Kirschner DE, Linderman JJ. Comparing efficacies of moxifloxacin, levofloxacin and gatifloxacin in tuberculosis granulomas using a multi-scale systems pharmacology approach. PLoS Comput Biol. 2017 Aug 17;13(8):e1005650. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005650. eCollection 2017 Aug.
• Background Xu P, Chen H, Xu J, Wu M, Zhu X, Wang F, Chen S, Xu J. Moxifloxacin is an effective and safe candidate agent for tuberculosis treatment: a meta-analysis. Int J Infect Dis. 2017 Jul;60:35-41. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2017.05.003. Epub 2017 May 8.
• Background Gillespie SH, Crook AM, McHugh TD, Mendel CM, Meredith SK, Murray SR, Pappas F, Phillips PP, Nunn AJ; REMoxTB Consortium. Four-month moxifloxacin-based regimens for drug-sensitive tuberculosis. N Engl J Med. 2014 Oct 23;371(17):1577-87. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1407426. Epub 2014 Sep 7.
• Background Chakraborty S, Rhee KY. Tuberculosis Drug Development: History and Evolution of the Mechanism-Based Paradigm. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. 2015 Apr 15;5(8):a021147. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a021147.

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