TRUNCATE-TB: an innovative trial design for drug-sensitive tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Padmasayee Papineni,
Patrick Phillips,
Qingshu Lu,
YB Cheung,
Andrew Nunn,
Nicholas I. Paton
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2016.02.863
Subject(s) - medicine , rifapentine , bedaquiline , clofazimine , tuberculosis , interim analysis , moxifloxacin , clinical trial , intensive care medicine , antibiotics , mycobacterium tuberculosis , pathology , leprosy , microbiology and biotechnology , dermatology , latent tuberculosis , biology
Background: The number of potential regimens of drug treatment for TB is vast, meaning that evaluating each new treatment against a control in separate two-arm trials requires a huge amount of resources. There is, therefore, a need for innovative trial designs that can evaluate drug regimens simultaneously.
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