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CompletedNCT03350295Updated Dec 12, 2019

Study Will Evaluate the Relative Bioavailability, Safety, and Tolerability of Single Doses of Nifurtimox 30 mg Tablets Exhibiting Different in Vitro Dissolution Characteristics, and to Evaluate the Relative Bioavailability of Nifurtimox 30 mg and 120 mg

A Phase 1 interventional study of Nifurtimox (Lampit, BAYA2502) in Chagas Disease, sponsored by Bayer. Completed at 1 site in Argentina. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 45 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-12-12.

Sponsored by Bayer · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
48
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 45 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 26 studies in Chagas Disease with a site in Argentina — 3 open to participants now, 4 under way, 2 of them phase 3. Chagas Disease · Argentina.

Enrollment
11th of 17
48 · median 87
Started
2018
with 2 others
Phase 1
5 of 26
none open now
Registered
15th of 26
by date
Lead sponsor
7 of 26
Bayer

Among the 26 studies in Chagas Disease with a site in Argentina, this one is the 11th largest by enrollment of the 17 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 3 that started in 2018, is one of 5 in phase 1, and was the 15th registered.

Chagas Disease

73 studies on the registry are indexed under Chagas Disease; 5 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 48 is below the median of 87 across 49 interventional studies indexed under Chagas Disease.

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Open to participants now

3 of the 26 studies in Chagas Disease with a site in Argentina are open now, in 12 countries. Each count lists the studies.

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Who these studies take

Of the 3 Chagas Disease studies recruiting now, 1 (33%) set no upper age limit and 2 (67%) stop at 75 or younger; 0 take children under 18; 0 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years to 45 Years · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

Study to assess the relative Bioavailability To assess the relative bioavailability of three formulations of nifurtimox 30 mg tablets exhibiting different in vitro dissolution profiles To assess the pharmacokinetics (PK) of nifurtimox To investigate the safety and tolerability of nifurtimox.

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Primary objective is to assess the relative bioavailability of three formulations of nifurtimox 30 mg tablets exhibiting different in vitro dissolution profiles (slow, medium, and fast, whereby "medium" represents the drug product currently used in clinical Phase 3 studies) under fed conditions in adult male and female patients with Chagas' disease.

A secondary objective of the study is to assess the relative bioavailability of nifurtimox after a single oral dose of 30 mg and 120 mg To assess the pharmacokinetics (PK) of nifurtimox To investigate the safety and tolerability of nifurtimox..

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Conditions studied

  • Chagas Disease

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Keywords

  • Relative bioavailability
  • In vitro dissolution
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 45 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  • Women and men of must agree to use adequate when sexually active. This applies for the time period between signing of the form and 12 weeks after the last administration of study drug. The definition of adequate contraception will be based on the judgment of the investigator and on local requirements. Acceptable methods of contraception include, but are not limited to: (i) condoms (male or female) with or without a spermicidal agent; (ii) diaphragm or cervical cap with spermicide; (iii) intra-uterine device; (iv) hormone-based contraception. Subjects must agree to utilize two reliable and acceptable methods of contraception simultaneously.
  • Women of with confirmed last menstrual period by anamnesis and negative serum pregnancy test (beta-human chorionic gonadotropin [βhCG]) at screening and negative urine pregnancy test (βhCG) at pre-dose of each treatment.
  • Women of non-childbearing potential, such as surgically sterile women with either written documentation of surgical sterility or negative serum pregnancy test (βhCG) at screening and negative urine pregnancy test (βhCG) at pre-dose of each treatment.
  • Male subjects who agree not to act as sperm donors for 12 weeks after last administration of study drug.
  • Age: 18 to 45 years (inclusive) at screening.
  • (BMI): ≥18 and \<29.9 kg/m².
  • Written informed consent must be provided before any study-specific tests or procedures are performed.
  • Male/female patient diagnosed with chronic Chagas' disease:
  • Previous diagnosis of acute or chronic Chagas' disease by a health clinic prior to screening for the study. The diagnosis of chronic Chagas' disease may be made by clinical findings, supported by antibody titers if available. If there is a known history of acute disease, it is preferable to have documentation of parasites on the blood smear, if available.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria

  • Incompletely cured pre-existing diseases (except chronic Chagas' disease without active GI condition) for which it can be assumed that the absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and effects of the study drugs will not be normal.
  • Acute Chagas' disease. (During the acute phase, the parasite on a blood smear may be seen under a microscope. Different antibodies are present, depending on the course of the disease).
  • Known to the study drug (active substance or of the preparations)
  • Unstable or uncontrolled medical condition such as hypertension or diabetes, decompensated heart failure, GI conditions that would interfere with the absorption of the study drug (e.g. GI ulceration, peptic ulceration, GI bleeding, gastroesophageal reflux, or other GI disease affecting gastroesophageal junction), conditions that could potentially have an impact on drug metabolism or elimination (renal, hepatic such as known hepatic or biliary abnormalities), or any active infections in the opinion of the investigator within 4 weeks before the screening visit, e.g. clinically relevant history or presence of significant respiratory (e.g. interstitial lung disease), hematological, lymphatic, neurological, cardiovascular, psychiatric, musculoskeletal, genitourinary, immunological, metabolic (e.g. diabetes), and dermatological or connective tissue disease.
  • Use of systemic or topical medicines or substances which oppose the study objectives (including clinical treatment with nifurtimox and benznidazole) or which might influence them within 4 weeks before the first study drug administration, e.g. an drug, any drug altering GI motility and/or gastric pH (e.g. antacids, anticholinergic, para-sympatholytics), any drug known to induce liver enzymes (e.g. dexamethasone, barbiturates, St. John's Wort [hypericum perforatum]), any drug known to inhibit liver enzymes (e.g. ketoconazole, macrolides).
  • Clinically relevant findings in the such as a second- or third-degree atrioventricular block, prolongation of the QRS complex over 120 msec or of the over 450 msec using Bazett's formula (QTcB). (Clinically stable subjects with Chagas'-related heart disease and pacemaker in place for >1 year and evaluated by a cardiologist ≤6 months before the first dose of study drug will not be excluded.)
  • Systolic blood pressure \<100 or >140 mmHg (after resting in supine position for a minimum of 3 minutes).
  • Diastolic blood pressure \<50 or >90 mmHg (after resting in supine position for a minimum of 3 minutes).
  • Findings that would exclude the subject in the investigator's judgment, e.g. enlarged liver, irregular heartbeat, undiagnosed acute illness, and melanoma.
  • Positive pregnancy test.
  • Positive results for virus surface antigen (HBsAg), virus antibodies (anti-HCV), or antibodies (anti-HIV 1+2).
  • Positive urine drug screening..
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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Reproductive potential

Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.

Criteria about it usually ask for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

ECG (electrocardiogram)

A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Crossover assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
48 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    GRP1 - Assess relative bioavailability(3-way cross-over)

    GROUP 1 (Treatments A, B, C) All 3 treatments in Group 1 consist of a dose of 120 mg nifurtimox (4 x 30 mg tablets). Participants received the 3 treatments in one of six treatment sequences under fed condition. Treatment A, dose administration with fast in vitro dissolution characteristics Treatment B, dose administration with medium in vitro dissolution characteristics Treatment C, dose administration with slow in vitro dissolution characteristics

    Drug: Nifurtimox (Lampit, BAYA2502)

  • Experimental
    GRP2 - Assess relative bioavailability (2-way cross-over)

    GROUP 2 (Treatments D and E) Participants received the 2 treatments in one of two treatment sequences under fed condition. Treatment D, a single dose 30 mg nifurtimox dose with medium in vitro dissolution characteristics Treatment E, a single dose of 120 mg nifurtimox

    Drug: Nifurtimox (Lampit, BAYA2502)

Interventions

  • Oral Intake of 4 x 30 mg nifurtimox tablets for treatment A-C; Oral Intake of 1 x 30 mg nifurtimox tablets for treatment D Oral intake of 1 x 120 mg nifurtimox tablet for treatment E

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. AUC(0-tlast) of nifurtimox

    AUC(0-tlast):Area under the drug-concentration vs. time curve of nifurtimox from time 0 to the last data point

    Time frame: 0, 15, 30, 45 min, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 6, 8,12,15 hour

  2. Cmax of nifurtimox

    Cmax: Maximum observed drug concentration in measured matrix after single dose administration

    Time frame: 0, 15, 30, 45 min, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 6, 8,12,15 hour

  3. AUC of nifurtimox

    AUC: Area under the concentration versus time curve from zero to infinity after single (first) dose

    Time frame: 0, 15, 30, 45 min, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 6, 8,12,15 hour

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of participants with adverse events

    Time frame: up to 8 weeks

  2. AUC divided by dose: AUC/D

    Time frame: 0, 15, 30, 45 min, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 6, 8,12,15 hour

  3. AUC(0-tlast) divided by dose: AUC(0-tlast)/D

    Time frame: 0, 15, 30, 45 min, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 6, 8,12,15 hour

  4. Cmax divided by dose: Cmax/D

    Time frame: 0, 15, 30, 45 min, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 6, 8,12,15 hour

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Study locations

1 site
  • FP Clinical Pharma
    Buenos Aires, Ciudad Auton. De Buenos Aires C1425BAB, Argentina
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References and documents

Publications

  • Stass H, Just S, Weimann B, Ince I, Willmann S, Feleder E, Freitas C, Yerino G, Munster U. Clinical investigation of the biopharmaceutical characteristics of nifurtimox tablets - Implications for quality control and application. Eur J Pharm Sci. 2021 Nov 1;166:105940. doi: 10.1016/j.ejps.2021.105940. Epub 2021 Jul 12. PubMed 34265407 ↗
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Jun 2018 to primary completion in Sep 2018, 3 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 9, 2017
First posted
Nov 22, 2017
StartActual
Jun 14, 2018
Primary completionActual
Sep 18, 2018
CompletionActual
Dec 14, 2018
Last update
Dec 12, 2019
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 12, 2019, 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
NCT03350295
Lead sponsor
Bayer
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 22, 2017
Start date
Jun 14, 2018
Primary completion
Sep 18, 2018
Completion
Dec 14, 2018
Last update
Dec 12, 2019

Study contacts

Bayer Study Director
study director · Bayer

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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