Clinical trial • Phase II • Infectious Disease
MEPACRINE for Intestinal giardiasis
Phase II trial of MEPACRINE for Intestinal giardiasis.
Overview
- Trial Therapeutic Area
- Infectious Disease
- Trial Disease
- Intestinal giardiasis
- Trial Stage
- Phase II
- Drug Modality
- Small molecule
- Paediatric Trial
- Yes
Key dates
- Initial CTIS Submission Date
- 23-02-2024
- First CTIS Authorization Date
- 05-06-2024
Trial design
Randomised, open-label, metronidazole; 40mg/kg/day every 8h x 10 days. route of administration: oral-controlled Phase II trial in Spain.
- Randomised
- Yes
- Open Label
- Yes
- Comparator
- Metronidazole; 40mg/kg/day every 8h x 10 days. Route of administration: Oral
- Target Sample Size
- 48
Eligibility
Recruits 48 paediatric patients.
- Pregnancy Exclusion
- Pregnant woman.
- Vulnerable Population
- Children aged 1 to 18 years; 'Informed consent/assent.'
Inclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- Children aged 1 to 18 years of age.\n- Diagnosed with intestinal giardiasis.\n- Informed consent/assent.\n- Refractory to first line treatment"}
Exclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- History of allergy or previous positive skin-test reaction to any of the drug compounds included.\n- Liver disease and/or liver enzymes > x3.\n- Pregnant woman.\n- Oral intolerance."}
Endpoints
Primary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- Proportion of participants achieving microbiological eradication of Giardia intestinalis in each study arm.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
Secondary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- Plasma drug concentration at the different time-points (Pharmacokinetic data).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Plasma drug concentration measured at specified time-points (pharmacokinetic sampling)."}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Hair drug concentration at the different time-points (Pharmacokinetic data).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Hair drug concentration measured at specified time-points (pharmacokinetic sampling)."}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Proportion of patients with any adverse event.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Proportion of drug discontinuation due to adverse effects. Tolerability.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Proportion of strains carrying gene mutations related with metronidazole resistance.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Proportion of co-parasitation.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- To generate pharmacokinetic data for the development of a specific pediatric galenic formulation.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- To obtain a cohort of resistant giardia isolates for further genetic characterization and/or cluster study.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- To characterize the cohort of pediatric patients harbouring resistant strains.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
Recruitment
- Planned Sample Size
- 48
- Recruitment Window Months
- 48
- Consent Approach
- Informed consent/assent.
Geography
- Total Number Of Sites
- 5
- Total Number Of Participants
- 48
Spain
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 28-05-2024
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 05-06-2024
- Processing Time Days
- 8
- Number Of Sites
- 5
- Number Of Participants
- 48
Sites
- Site Name
- Sant Joan De Deu Barcelona Hospital
- Department Name
- Infectious Service
- Contact Person Name
- Victoria Fumadó
- Contact Person Email
- victoria.fumado@sjd.es
- Site Name
- Hospital Universitario La Paz
- Department Name
- Hospital Pediatrics Service, Diseases Infectious and Tropical
- Contact Person Name
- Talía Sainz Costa
- Contact Person Email
- tsainzcosta@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Hospital Universitario Regional De Malaga
- Department Name
- Pediatric Infectology
- Contact Person Name
- Begoña Carazo Gallego
- Contact Person Email
- bcarazo002@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon
- Department Name
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatric Service
- Contact Person Name
- Begoña Santiago García
- Contact Person Email
- bsantiagogarcia@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Vall D'hebron Institut De Recerca
- Department Name
- Infectious Pathology and Immunodeficiencies Unit pediatric
- Contact Person Name
- María Espiau Guarner
- Contact Person Email
- mariaespiau@hotmail.com
Sponsor
Primary sponsor
- Full Name
- Fundacion Para La Investigacion Biomedica Del Hospital Universitario La Paz
- Organisation Type
- Patient organisation/association
- Country Of Registered Address
- Spain
Investigational products
- Investigational Product Name
- MEPACRINE 100 MG
- Active Substance
- MEPACRINE
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- Oral
- Route
- Oral
- Starting Dose
- 2 mg/kg every 8 hours for 5 days.
- Dose Levels
- 2 mg/kg every 8 hours for 5 days.
- Frequency
- Every 8 hours
- Investigational Product Name
- MEPACRINE 5 MG CAPSULES
- Active Substance
- MEPACRINE
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- Oral
- Route
- Oral
- Starting Dose
- 2 mg/kg every 8 hours for 5 days.
- Dose Levels
- 2 mg/kg every 8 hours for 5 days.
- Frequency
- Every 8 hours
- Investigational Product Name
- MEPACRINE 25 MG CAPSULES
- Active Substance
- MEPACRINE
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- Oral
- Route
- Oral
- Starting Dose
- 2 mg/kg every 8 hours for 5 days.
- Dose Levels
- 2 mg/kg every 8 hours for 5 days.
- Frequency
- Every 8 hours
- Investigational Product Name
- Metronidazol NORMON 250 mg comprimidos EFG
- Active Substance
- METRONIDAZOLE
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- Oral
- Route
- Oral
- Starting Dose
- 40 mg/kg/day every 8 hours for 10 days.
- Dose Levels
- 40 mg/kg/day every 8 hours for 10 days.
- Frequency
- Every 8 hours
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