Status:

TERMINATED

Cotrifazid Safety and Efficacy Against Malaria

Lead Sponsor:

Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Collaborating Sponsors:

Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research

Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute

Conditions:

Clinical Malaria

Eligibility:

All Genders

6+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study was to assess the safety and efficacy of Cotrifazid to treat uncomplicated resistant malaria and to compare the outcome with mefloquine or quinine+sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (...

Detailed Description

Design: Open-label, block-randomised, comparative, multicentric trial. Setting: Four primary care health facilities, two in urban and two in rural areas of Madang and East Sepik Province, Papua New Gu...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • All subjects \> 6 months of age who presented at the centres and who were diagnosed with malaria (history of fever, OptiMAL® test positive, no other major symptom) and who had already been treated for malaria in the 28 days before, could be included in the study, if the subject or legal guardian (for children) gave informed consent and if the clinician in charge would have given the standard treatment for resistant malaria independent of the study -

Exclusion

  • A subject was not to be included if the clinician preferred to use quinine for whatever reason, if the patient had one of the symptoms or signs of complicated or severe malaria (i.e. history of recent convulsion, any neurological sign or impairment of consciousness, heavy vomiting, haemoglobinuria, respiratory distress, bleeding, circulatory collapse, shock, jaundice, haemoglobin \< 5 g/dl), had contra-indications for mefloquine (history of psychiatric disorder, epilepsy), or was pregnant.
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Key Trial Info

Start Date :

April 1 2000

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

End Date :

January 1 2003

Estimated Enrollment :

330 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00322907

Start Date

April 1 2000

End Date

January 1 2003

Last Update

May 8 2006

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Health centers

Madang and Maprik, Madang and East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea