NCT04568967Completed
TB-CAPT EXULTANT - HIV
Expanding Xpert Ultra Testing for TB Diagnosis Among HIV-positive Patients Admitted to Hospital in Africa
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 4 Apr 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The overall aim of this study is to assess the potential of an expanded TB testing strategy to increase the number of HIV-positive patients with microbiologically diagnosed TB who are started on treatment in adult wards of sub-Saharan Africa.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1172 (actual)
- First submitted
- 23 Sept 2020
- Start date
- 5 Sept 2022
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Switzerland
- Diseases
- Tuberculosis, HIV
- NCT number
- NCT04568967
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 1172
- From 5 Sept 2022 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2024
- 4 sites in 2 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Currently receiving anti-TB therapy or having received anti TB therapy in the last 6 months prior to enrolment
- Receiving preventive TB treatment in the preceding 6 months
Other illness
- Patients admitted for traumatic reasons, acute abdomen, delivery (maternal conditions), or for planned/scheduled surgery.
Other
- Unable to provide informed consent (if no authorized relatives are in the position to provide the consent)
- Living outside the catchment area of the participating hospital(s)
- with plans to migrate outside the catchment area within 2 months after recruitment.
- Referred from other hospital.
Who the study is looking for
- Adults (18 years old and above)
- Confirmed HIV infection by serology (including both antiretroviral (ART)- naïve and experienced)
- Admitted to the hospital (adult medical wards) at the time of enrolment.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (4)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça-Fundação Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Manhiça | Mozambique | Unknown status |
| Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Maputo | Mozambique | Unknown status |
| Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bagamoyo | Tanzania | Unknown status |
| National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mbeya | Tanzania | Unknown status |
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