Completed
Clarithromycin/Ethambutol Regimen with Rifabutin or Placebo for MAC Bacteremia in AIDS
What is being tested
Ethambutol hydrochloride
+ Clarithromycin
+ Rifabutin
Drug
Who is being recruted
Blood-Borne Infections+20
+ Urogenital Diseases
+ Genital Diseases
Over 13 Years
+9 Eligibility Criteria
How is the trial designed
Treatment Study
Phase 3
Interventional
Summary
Principal SponsorPharmacia
Last updated: June 24, 2005
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Patients are randomized to receive clarithromycin and ethambutol plus either placebo or rifabutin at one of two doses. Treatment continues indefinitely. AS PER AMENDMENT 04/19/94: Doses of rifabutin have been lowered.
Principal SponsorPharmacia
Last updated: June 24, 2005
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Protocol
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.Design Details
450 patients to be enrolled
Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.Treatment Study
These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.
Eligibility
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.Conditions
Criteria
Any sex
Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.Over 13 Years
Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.Healthy volunteers not allowed
If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.Conditions
Pathology
Blood-Borne InfectionsUrogenital DiseasesGenital DiseasesActinomycetales InfectionsBacterial Infections and MycosesBacterial InfectionsCommunicable DiseasesImmunologic Deficiency SyndromesImmune System DiseasesInfectionsMycobacterium InfectionsMycobacterium Infections, NontuberculousRetroviridae InfectionsRNA Virus InfectionsSexually Transmitted DiseasesSlow Virus DiseasesVirus DiseasesSexually Transmitted Diseases, ViralLentivirus InfectionsGram-Positive Bacterial InfectionsAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeMycobacterium avium-intracellulare InfectionHIV Infections
Criteria
4 inclusion criteria required to participate
Allowed concurrent medication: Isoniazid for TB prophylaxis ONLY
HIV infection
Life expectancy of at least 16 weeks
MAC infection
5 exclusion criteria prevent from participating
Excluded concurrent medication: Antimycobacterial drugs other than the study drugs, carbamazepine, terfenadine, theophylline
Excluded prior medication within 14 days prior to study entry: Carbamazepine, terfenadine, theophylline
Excluded prior medication within 7 days prior to study entry: Rifabutin, rifampin, ethionamide, cycloserine, clofazimine, ethambutol, amikacin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, sparfloxacin, azithromycin, clarithromycin, pyrazinamide
History of hypersensitivity to rifabutin, rifampin, erythromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin, or ethambutol
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Study Centers
These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.This study has 44 locations
Maricopa Med Research Foundation
Phoenix, United StatesBay Harbor Hosp
Harbor City, United StatesCtr for Special Immunology
Irvine, United StatesCompleted44 Study Centers