Clinical Trials
Below are current clinical trials.
269 studies in Infectious Diseases Research (all studies, either open or closed).
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Rochester, Minn.
The purpose of this study is to investigate disease causing and other organisms which athletes may be exposed to while participating in the Summer Olympic Games. The study will also investigate the organism and metabolism environment of stool, blood analysis and presence of abnormal cell structures in Olympic athletes in comparison with other elite athletes.
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Rochester, Minn.
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of RBX7455 (an oral microbiota based drug) for the treatment of recurrent clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in subjects who have had at least one recurrence after a primary episode (i.e., at least two episodes) and have completed at least two rounds of standard-of-care oral antibiotic therapy. Study subjects will have their diarrhea resolved, i.e., would be having less than 3 watery bowel movements at the time of study enrollment for 48 hours or more.
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Rochester, Minn.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate treatment of BK polyomavirus with the use of Brincidofovir.
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Rochester, Minn., Jacksonville, Fla.
The purpose of this study is to assess the experience of low income pregnant women at an inner-city health system with seeking and receiving care.
Significant disparities in health care and birth outcomes are seen in the US during normal times. During COVID-19, limited access to health care resources, social distancing and stay at home orders, and shortages of food and other necessities may exacerbate these disparities.
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Rochester, Minn.
The purpose of this study is to compare a standard steroid dosing algorithm to a novel biomarker-tailored steroid dosing algorithm for patients receiving corticosteroids for community acquired pneumonia. Patients with severe community acquired pneumonia may benefit from adjunctive corticosteroid therapy. The optimal patient selection, dosing and duration of steroids is unknown.
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Rochester, Minn.
The purpose of this study is to test (in 2 stages) the safety/tolerability, pharmacokinetics (how the body handles study drug) and pharmacodynamics (effects on the immune system and the virus) of the study drug ABBV-181 in HIV-1 infected participants undergoing antiretroviral therapy (ART) interruption.
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Rochester, Minn.
The purpose of this study is to explore lay understandings toward participating in and perceptions of consent to biospecimen research and valuation of genetics in SARS-COV-2 infection, testing, immunity, and vaccine development, to explore professional attitudes toward and perception of barriers and facilitators for implementating genetic technology to facilitate understanding of SARS-COV-2 infection and immunity, improvement and scale-up of testing, and vaccine development, and to identify ethical, social, and inter-professional aspects of microbial genetic technology implementation in population health surveillance, clinical test development, and vaccine research.We hypothesize that engagement with individuals whom directly experience and/or are impacted by the increasing use of SARS-Cov-2 genetic technology, including COVID-19 Pandemic Response Biobank contributors and interdisciplinary expert teams will help identify ethical and social issues in adopting and implementing emerging technology.
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Rochester, Minn.
The purpose of this study is to develop algorithms that will enable earlier identification and testing triggers for COVID-19 in otherwise asymptomatic patients, and to identify baseline characteristics from patients that ultimately test positive for COVID-19 that may predict clinical trajectory during the evolution of disease.
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Rochester, Minn.
The purpose of this study is to estimate the success, recurrence, and complications over the 90 day follow up period for the treatment of C. difficile infection in adult solid organ or stem cell transplant patients.
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Rochester, Minn.
The primary goal of this study will be to assess whether stool collected and frozen from anonymous screened unrelated donors can be as effective as stool freshly collected from recipient's parents when used in Fecal Microbial Transplant for the eradication of recurrent Clostridium difficile infections in children. In the current protocols, which are more than 90% effective, each child who is receiving a fecal transplant has to provide their own donor stool, usually from a parent or close relative. This requires considerable screening costs for each case and is logistically complicated as the donor must be present and must stool just prior to the transplant. The investigators hope to show that a small number of healthy donors can provide stool samples which can be frozen and banked and then thawed for use in numerous patients. The primary goal is to show that Clostridium difficile will be eradicated as effectively (Greater than 90% success) when using the stool from the frozen donors.
The study will also evaluate the inflammatory response and intestinal microbiome in young children aged 1-3 years with Clostridium difficile infections to better predict which ones will respond to fecal transplantation and which ones have incidental infections. For this question the investigators will gather stool samples to check for lactoferrin, calprotectin, and alpha1antitrypsin, and 16s ribosomal RNA analysis in children before and after the fecal transplants. The goal is to see if there is an intestinal microbiome that predisposes some children to getting sick from Clostridium difficile versus just having it incidentally.