Patients With Tuberculosis, Mycobacteriosis or Latent Tuberculosis

NCT ID: NCT06764576

Last Updated: 2025-01-08

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

13000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-12-19

Study Completion Date

2026-12-31

Brief Summary

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In the last 30 years, tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged in industrialised countries as a public health, with a decrease in incidence among the resident population and an increase in the burden of immigrants. Therefore, it becomes a priority to implement an effective TB control that relies on both rapid and reliable identification of active infections, with a adequate treatment and surveillance of resistance, but also on the identification of latent tuberculosis infections (ITBL) in populations at higher risk of progression to the active disease, representing a source of infection for the community.

Detailed Description

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The study is non-pharmacological and monocentric. Data from patients with clinical/radiological suspicion of mycobacteriosis or tuberculosis will be considered for which they have been received at the OU of Microbiology of the Polyclinic S.Orsola-Malpighi biological samples for mycobacteria research and/or blood samples for immunological investigations for latent tubercular infection in the period January 2012-May 2021 (retrospective part of the study); Data from patients suspected of mycobacteriosis, TB or ITBL from June 2021 to December 2026 (prospective part of the study, duration: 6 years, possibly renewable) will also be considered. The objectives of the study are: 1) Analysis of epidemiological, demographic and clinical aspects of patients with TB, mycobacteriosis non-tubercular or ITBL in the period January 2012-December 2026. 2) Assessment of diagnostic accuracy of the most frequently used methods for Microbiological diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) or non-tubercular mycobacteriosis and immunological methods for the diagnosis of latent tubercular infection (ITBL). 3) Analysis of the microbiological characteristics (phenotypic and molecular) of MTB and NTM strains. 4) Evaluation of the clinical outcome of patients with ITBL/TB/NTM in treatment and follow-up in the post-treatment period.

Conditions

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Mycobacterial Infection Tuberculosis (TB)

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

OTHER

Study Groups

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Tuberculosis or mycobacteriosis Microbiologically confirmed cases

Retrospective phase from 1 January 2012 to 31 May 2021

No interventions assigned to this group

Latent tuberculosis infection cases

Retrospective phase, patients followed by infectious diseases clinics from 2017 to May 2021

No interventions assigned to this group

Patients with suspected tuberculosis, non-tubercular mycobacteriosis or tubercular infection

Prospective phase from 1 June 2021 to 31 December 2026

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* age of 18 years or more,
* clinical/radiological suspicion of TB or non-tubercular mycobacteriosis or ITBL for which sent to the Microbiology laboratory at least one biological sample for the mycobacteria and/or a blood sample for the IGRA test;
* Obtaining informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

* None
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Paola Dal Monte, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna

Locations

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IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna

Bologna, , Italy

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Italy

Central Contacts

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Paola Dal Monte, MD

Role: CONTACT

0390512145293

Facility Contacts

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Paola Dal Monte, MD

Role: primary

+390512145293

References

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Haworth CS, Banks J, Capstick T, Fisher AJ, Gorsuch T, Laurenson IF, Leitch A, Loebinger MR, Milburn HJ, Nightingale M, Ormerod P, Shingadia D, Smith D, Whitehead N, Wilson R, Floto RA. British Thoracic Society guidelines for the management of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD). Thorax. 2017 Nov;72(Suppl 2):ii1-ii64. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210927. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29054853 (View on PubMed)

Nahid P, Dorman SE, Alipanah N, Barry PM, Brozek JL, Cattamanchi A, Chaisson LH, Chaisson RE, Daley CL, Grzemska M, Higashi JM, Ho CS, Hopewell PC, Keshavjee SA, Lienhardt C, Menzies R, Merrifield C, Narita M, O'Brien R, Peloquin CA, Raftery A, Saukkonen J, Schaaf HS, Sotgiu G, Starke JR, Migliori GB, Vernon A. Official American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America Clinical Practice Guidelines: Treatment of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Oct 1;63(7):e147-e195. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciw376. Epub 2016 Aug 10.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Petrucci R, Lombardi G, Corsini I, Bacchi Reggiani ML, Visciotti F, Bernardi F, Landini MP, Cazzato S, Dal Monte P. Quantiferon-TB Gold In-Tube Improves Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Children. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2017 Jan;36(1):44-49. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001350.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Barcellini L, Borroni E, Brown J, Brunetti E, Codecasa L, Cugnata F, Dal Monte P, Di Serio C, Goletti D, Lombardi G, Lipman M, Rancoita PM, Tadolini M, Cirillo DM. First independent evaluation of QuantiFERON-TB Plus performance. Eur Respir J. 2016 May;47(5):1587-90. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02033-2015. Epub 2016 Feb 11. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29198911 (View on PubMed)

Lombardi G, Di Gregori V, Girometti N, Tadolini M, Bisognin F, Dal Monte P. Diagnosis of smear-negative tuberculosis is greatly improved by Xpert MTB/RIF. PLoS One. 2017 Apr 21;12(4):e0176186. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176186. eCollection 2017.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 28430807 (View on PubMed)

Internal Clinical Guidelines Team (UK). Tuberculosis: Prevention, Diagnosis, Management and Service Organisation. London: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK); 2016 Jan. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK338750/

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26820019 (View on PubMed)

Jensen PA, Lambert LA, Iademarco MF, Ridzon R; CDC. Guidelines for preventing the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in health-care settings, 2005. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2005 Dec 30;54(RR-17):1-141.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16382216 (View on PubMed)

Aliberti S, Codecasa LR, Gori A, Sotgiu G, Spotti M, Di Biagio A, Calcagno A, Nardini S, Assael BM, Tortoli E, Besozzi G, Ferrarese M, Matteelli A, Girardi E, De Lorenzo S, Seia M, Gramegna A, Del Prato B, Terranova L, Oriano M, Sverzellati N, Mirsaeidi M, Chalmers JD, Haworth CS, Loebinger MR, Aksamit T, Winthrop K, Ringshausen FC, Previdi G, Blasi F; IRENE Network. The Italian registry of pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacteria - IRENE: the study protocol. Multidiscip Respir Med. 2018 Aug 9;13(Suppl 1):33. doi: 10.1186/s40248-018-0141-8. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 30151192 (View on PubMed)

Fattorini L, Mustazzolu A, Borroni E, Piccaro G, Giannoni F, Cirillo DM; Italian Multicentre Study on Resistance to Antituberculosis Drugs (SMIRA) Group. Tuberculosis in migrants from 106 countries to Italy, 2008-2014. Eur Respir J. 2016 Apr;47(4):1273-6. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01844-2015. Epub 2016 Feb 4. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26846829 (View on PubMed)

Lombardi G, Dal Monte P, Denicolo A, Tadolini M, Martelli G, Bacchi Reggiani ML, Viale P, Landini MP. Trend of microbiologically-confirmed tuberculosis in a low-incidence setting with high immigration rates. BMC Public Health. 2014 Apr 10;14:340. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-340.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24721236 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

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https://assr.regione.emilia-romagna.it/pubblicazioni/rapporti-documenti/epidemiologia-della-tubercolosi-in-emilia-romagna-2010-2011-1

Agenzia Sanitaria e Sociale Regionale della Regione Emilia-Romagna. Epidemiologia della tubercolosi in Emilia-Romagna 2010-11.

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/255052/1/9789241550000-eng.pdf?ua=1

World Health Organization. Guidelines for the treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis and patient care (2017 update)

Other Identifiers

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Micro-TB

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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