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Status unknownNCT03478033RRHTUpdated Apr 24, 2018

Rifampicin vs Rifabutin in HIV/AIDS Patients Combined With Tuberculosis

An interventional study of Rifampicin and Rifabutin in Tuberculosis, Pulmonary and AIDS, sponsored by Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-04-24.

Sponsored by Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Apr 2018), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.

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Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
230
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 28 studies in Tuberculosis, Pulmonary with a site in China — 12 open to participants now, 14 under way, 6 of them phase 3. Tuberculosis, Pulmonary · China.

Planned enrollment
14th of 21
230 · median 280
Started
2018
with 1 other
No phase
4 of 28
none open now
Registered
8th of 28
by date

Among the 28 studies in Tuberculosis, Pulmonary with a site in China, this one is the 14th largest by planned enrollment of the 21 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 2 that started in 2018, is one of 4 with no phase, and was the 8th registered.

Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

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Open to participants now

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Who these studies take

Of the 46 Tuberculosis, Pulmonary studies recruiting now, 22 (48%) set no upper age limit and 20 (43%) stop at 75 or younger; 11 take children under 18; 7 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years to 65 Years · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

To compared the efficacy and safety of rifampicin and rifabutin which included in the standard treatment of anti-tuberculosis in HIV/AIDs patients combined with pulmonary tuberculosis, a multi-center, prospective cohort will be established. Antiviral efficacy and drug drug interaction will be investigated in order to provide optimized treatment for HIV/AIDs with tuberculosis.

Read the detailed description

Two hundreds and thirty participants will be randomly assigned to receive an anti--tuberculosis treatment include rifampicin or rifabutin for two months of intensive therapy. Isoniazid and rifampicin (or rifabutin) will be continued to use for four months of consolidation therapy. A total of followed up period will be 12 months.

The antiretroviral therapy(ART) include:

Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300mg/d +Lamivudine 300mg/d+ Efavirenz 600mg/d; or Zidovudine 300mg bid +Lamivudine 300mg/d +Efavirenz 600mg/d.

ART will be started after 2 weeks of anti-tuberculosis.

The follow-up visits include 2th, 4th, 6th, 8th, 12th,16th, 20th, 24th, 32th, 36th, 40th, 44th and 48th week. sputum smear, sputum culture, chest X-ray, CD4 Lymphocyte counts,HIV viral load and adverse event will be tested and recorded.

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Conditions studied

  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
  • AIDS

Keywords

  • Tuberculosis
  • AIDS
  • Rifampicin
  • Rifabutin
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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

  1. Age: 18-65 years old;
  2. No limited to gender;
  3. If anti--1 positive samples are detected by an initial test based on the ELISA method, they should be confirmed by western blot;
  4. The patients who are diagnosed with pulmonary TB (mycobacterium tuberculosis of sputum smear or culture was positive) but had never be treated;
  5. Sign form voluntarily, and guarantee to attend follow-up visits;
  6. Do not have plan to remove from the current experimental site during the trial process;
  7. The patients do not receive any antiretroviral treatment before;
  8. The overall situation of the patient should not affect the assessment and completion of the trial.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients with acute infection;
  2. During the screening period,patients with combined opportunistic infections and instability (National /AIDS treatment guidelines) except for tuberculosis, or combined ;
  3. During the screening period,hemachrome \< 6 g/dl, leukocyte \< 2000 /µl, neutrophils \< 1000 /µl, count \< 75000 /µl, blood amylase is greater than two times the , Scr is greater than1.5 times the upper limit of normal, /ALT/AKP is greater than two times the upper limit of normal, is greater than two times the upper limit of normal, serum CK is greater than two times the upper limit of normal;
  4. Now suffering from acute or chronic pancreatitis;
  5. Now suffering from peripheral neuritis;
  6. Pregnant and lactating women;
  7. Patients with severe mental and neurological diseases;
  8. Drug users;
  9. Patients with history of heavy drinking and cannot be terminated;
  10. Serious gastrointestinal ulcers;
  11. Atherosclerosis affects the arteries in the heart, brain or kidneys;
  12. Non-Chinese nationality;
  13. Now suffering from myopathy;
  14. Patients with previously treated tuberculosis.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(7)

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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.

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.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
230 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Rifampicin group

    Rifampicin group: Intensive treatment(4 types of anti-TB medicines)for 2 months, then isoniazid and rifampicin for 4 months of consolidation therapy. isoniazid: 10-15mg/kg rifampicin: 10-20mg/kg pyrazinamide: 30-40mg/kg thambutol: 0.75(W\<50kg);1.0 g/d(W≥50kg)

    Drug: Rifampicin

  • Experimental
    Rifabutin group

    Rifabutin group: Intensive treatment(4 types anti-TB medicines)for 2 months,then isoniazid and rifabutin for 4 months of consolidation therapy. isoniazid: 10-15mg/kg rifabutin: 0.45g/d(W\<50kg); 0.6g/d( W≥50kg) pyrazinamide: 30-40mg/kg thambutol: 0.75(W\<50kg);1.0 g/d(W≥50kg)

    Drug: Rifabutin

Interventions

  • Rifampicin capsules, 150mg

    Also known as: Rifampicin/INH/EMB/PZA

  • Rifabutin capsules, 150mg

    Also known as: Rifabutin/INH/EMB/PZA

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The rate of sputum negative conversion

    The rate of the patients whose mycobacterium tuberculosis cannot be detected in sputum smear or bacteria culture.

    Time frame: 2~24 weeks

  2. Case fatality rate

    The number of deaths during follow-up caused by HIV/AIDS and TB / the number of patients with HIV/AIDs and TB enrolled in this study \* 100%.

    Time frame: 12 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Treatment completion status

    The rate of patients who complete the whole anti-tuberculous treatment.

    Time frame: 12 months

  2. The percentage of HIV viral load less than the detection limit

    The percentage of HIV viral load less than the detection limit

    Time frame: 6 months and 12 months

  3. AE

    The number and severity of adverse event.

    Time frame: 12 months

  4. Time of sputum negative conversion

    The time of sputum negative conversion.

    Time frame: 2~24 weeks

  5. Chest CT scans improvement

    Chest CT showed tuberculosis lesion absorption

    Time frame: 2~24 weeks

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center
    Shanghai, Shanghai 201508, China
    Recruiting
    • Yingzhong Shen, PhD,MD · Contact027465@163.com · 86-021-37990333
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Apr 2018 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2020, 25 months after the start.

Of 42 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Tuberculosis, Pulmonary, half reached primary completion within 17 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 29. This study's planned 25 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 42 studies reached it within 17 months; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 29.

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

Registered
Mar 20, 2018
First posted
Mar 27, 2018
StartActual
Apr 15, 2018
Primary completionEst.
Jun 1, 2020
CompletionEst.
Dec 31, 2020
Last update
Apr 24, 2018
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 Apr 24, 2018, 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
NCT03478033
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center
Collaborators
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Longtan hospital, The Fourth People's Hospital of Nanning, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Yunnan Provincial Infectious Disease Hospital, Zhejiang University, Chongqing Public Health Medical Center
Responsible party
Hongzhou Lu (vice director, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 27, 2018
Start date
Apr 15, 2018
Primary completion
Jun 1, 2020 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2020 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 24, 2018

Study contacts

Hongzhou Lu, PhD,MD
Contact
luhongzhou@fudan.edu.cn
86-021-37990333 ext. 3222

Oversight

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