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Status unknownNCT00216385Updated Sep 22, 2005

A Controlled Trial of a 4-Month Quinolone-Containing Regimen for the Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

A Phase 3 interventional study of Gatifloxacin combined regimen in Tuberculosis, sponsored by Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement. Status unknown at 5 sites in 5 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2005-09-22.

Sponsored by Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Sep 2005), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
2,070
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Tuberculosis is currently treated with a 6-month course regimen. During this time many patients might fail to adhere to treatment and default, increasing the risk of recurrent disease which might be multidrug resistant. A shorter duration of treatment is expected to provide improved patient compliance and at least equal or better clinical outcome. The aim of the trial is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a gatifloxacin-containing regimen of four months duration for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis,

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In order to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the 4-month test gatifloxacin-containing regimen, comparison will be made with a standard 6-month regimen, recommended by WHO. Patients will be treated with one of the two regimens that will be randomly allocated. A total of 2070 patients will ne recruited in the trial and followed-up for a duration of 2 years. The trial is multicentre, and conducted in 5 countries in Africa.

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Conditions studied

  • Tuberculosis

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Keywords

  • Tuberculosis
  • Treatment
  • Quinolone
  • Short course chemotherapy
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In context

Tuberculosis

1,170 studies on the registry are indexed under Tuberculosis; 175 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 2,070 is above the median of 150 across 820 interventional studies indexed under Tuberculosis.

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Lead sponsor

Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement is the lead sponsor of 49 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Male or female patients
  • Aged 18 to 65 years
  • Currently suffering from recently diagnosed microscopically proven pulmonary tuberculosis and providing for inclusion in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with history of tuberculosis treatment within the last 3 years
  • History of diabetes mellitus or non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus requiring treatment
  • Concomitant infection requiring additional anti-infective treatment (especially anti-retroviral therapy)
  • infected patients with WHO stage 3 infection - except those presenting with only the "loss of weight>10% body weight" criterion - and all HIV infected patients at WHO stage 4.
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HIV

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
2,070 participants

Interventions

  • DrugGatifloxacin combined regimen
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Efficacy: Percentage of relapses by 24 months following treatment cure

  2. Safety: Percentage of adverse events

Secondary outcomes

  1. Efficacy: Time to relapse

  2. Efficacy: Percentage of smear and culture conversion at 8 weeks

  3. Efficacy: Percentage of patient cured at the end of treatment

  4. Efficacy: Time to a composite "unsatisfactory" endpoint

  5. Safety outcome: Distribution of type and grading of adverse events

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Study locations

5 of 5 sites recruiting
  • Programme National de Lutte contre la Tuberculose
    Cotonou, Benin
    Recruiting
    • Martin Gninafon, MD · Contactpnt@intnet.bj · + 229 33 15 33
    • Martin Gninafon, MD · Principal investigator
  • Service Pneumo-Phtisiologie, CHU Ignace Deen
    Conakry, Guinea
    Recruiting
  • Kenya Medical Research Institute
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Recruiting
  • Programme National de Lutte contre la Tuberculose
    Dakar, Senegal
    Recruiting
    • Cheikh Seck, MD · Contactcheikbaf@yahoo.fr · + 221 824.90.09
    • Cheikh Seck, MD · Principal investigator
  • Medical Research Council
    Durban, KwaZulu, South Africa
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Pasipanodya JG, Smythe W, Merle CS, Olliaro PL, Deshpande D, Magombedze G, McIlleron H, Gumbo T. Artificial intelligence-derived 3-Way Concentration-dependent Antagonism of Gatifloxacin, Pyrazinamide, and Rifampicin During Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Nov 28;67(suppl_3):S284-S292. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy610. PubMed 30496458 ↗
  • Olliaro PL, Merle C, Mthiyane T, Bah B, Kassa F, Amukoye E, N Diaye A, Perronne C, Lienhardt C, McIlleron H, Fielding K. Effects on the QT Interval of a Gatifloxacin-Containing Regimen versus Standard Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2017 Jun 27;61(7):e01834-16. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01834-16. Print 2017 Jul. PubMed 28438924 ↗
  • Merle CS, Fielding K, Sow OB, Gninafon M, Lo MB, Mthiyane T, Odhiambo J, Amukoye E, Bah B, Kassa F, N'Diaye A, Rustomjee R, de Jong BC, Horton J, Perronne C, Sismanidis C, Lapujade O, Olliaro PL, Lienhardt C; OFLOTUB/Gatifloxacin for Tuberculosis Project. A four-month gatifloxacin-containing regimen for treating tuberculosis. N Engl J Med. 2014 Oct 23;371(17):1588-98. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1315817. Erratum In: N Engl J Med. 2015 Apr 23;372(17):1677. doi: 10.1056/NEJMx150015. PubMed 25337748 ↗
  • Smythe W, Merle CS, Rustomjee R, Gninafon M, Lo MB, Bah-Sow O, Olliaro PL, Lienhardt C, Horton J, Smith P, McIlleron H, Simonsson US. Evaluation of initial and steady-state gatifloxacin pharmacokinetics and dose in pulmonary tuberculosis patients by using monte carlo simulations. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2013 Sep;57(9):4164-71. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00479-13. Epub 2013 Jun 17. PubMed 23774436 ↗
  • Merle CS, Sismanidis C, Sow OB, Gninafon M, Horton J, Lapujade O, Lo MB, Mitchinson DA, Perronne C, Portaels F, Odhiambo J, Olliaro P, Rustomjee R, Lienhardt C, Fielding K. A pivotal registration phase III, multicenter, randomized tuberculosis controlled trial: design issues and lessons learnt from the Gatifloxacin for TB (OFLOTUB) project. Trials. 2012 May 18;13:61. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-61. PubMed 22607233 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 22, 2005, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00216385
Lead sponsor
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
Collaborators
World Health Organization, European Commission
First posted
Sep 22, 2005
Start date
Jan 2005
Completion
Dec 2008
Last update
Sep 22, 2005

Study contacts

Christian Lienhardt, MD
study director · Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
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