Inhaled Lexofloxacin vs Usual Care for Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (LANDCAP 2)

November 4, 2026 updated by: Copenhagen Respiratory Research

Local Antibiotic Delivery for Community Acquired Pneumonia

This trial aims to determine whether treatment with inhaled levofloxacin (an antibiotic) is equal to systemic antibiotic treatment (usual care) for patients admitted to a hospital with community-acquired pneumonia in regards to treatment-effect and safety parameters.

Additionally, this study will assess if treatment with inhaled antibiotics leads to fewer antibiotic side-effects and a more preserved gastro-intestinal microbial environment.

The main question this study aims to answer is:

Does inhaled levofloxacin 240mg twice daily result in comparable days alive and out of hospital at 14 days compared to standard-of-care (usual care) antibiotic treatment for community-acquired pneumonia in admitted patients?

Secondary questions this study aims to answer are:

  1. Does treatment with inhaled levofloxacin reduce proportion of patients with antibiotic side-effects?
  2. Does treatment with inhaled levofloxacin lead to preserved diversity in the gut microbiome?
  3. Is treatment with inhaled levofloxacin comparable with usual care in regards to patient reported outcomes?

The above list is not the complete list of questions this study aims to answer, but serves as highlights.

Study Overview

Status

Status

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Active, not recruiting

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

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Detailed Description

Community-acquired pneumonia is common and potentially fatal. Standard-of-care treatment mainly consists of systemic antibiotics and treatment supporting recovery (e.g. oxygen-therapy, fluid rescucitation, respiratory physiotherapy, sufficient dietary intake etc.). As with all medicinal treatments, antibiotic treatment is hard on the body and can lead to side-effects as well as organ-failure in extreme cases.

Antibiotic treatment naturally promotes antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which result in less effective antibiotic treatment, and ultimately it could potentially lead to antibiotics being rendered useless in treating infections such as pneumonia.

A strategy to reduce the promotion of antimicrobial restistance (AMR) is better targeting of the disease-inducing microbes and several other strategies exists. Physicians and researchers usually categorize the targeting of disease-promoting microbes as either "local"/"topical" or "systemic". No "local" treatment of community-acquired pneumonia has been demonstrated to this day, but "local" treatment is theoretically possible with inhaled antibiotics. This treatment strategy has been hypothesized in the last decade, but no studies have been conducted regarding community-acquired pneumonia.

This study will include 460 patients and be conducted in two stages: Stage A and Stage B, each stage including 230 patients.

Patients are included voluntarilty and with prior written informed consent.

Patients included in stage A will be treated with systemic antibiotics for 24 hours and will then be randomized to further treatment with either inhaled levofloxacin 240mg twice daily or continue the "usual care"-treatment that they were receiving. The duration of intervention is up to 5 days.

At 230 included patients a planned interrim analysis will be conducted by an appointed data safety monitoring board of certified healthcare professionals to assess the further continuation of the trial. If favorable assessment, the trial will commence to Stage B.

Patients included in Stage B will be randomized at admission to either usual standard-of-care treatment for 5 days OR inhaled levofloxacin 240mg twice daily for 5 days.

The trial is open-label, which means that both patients and healthcare professionals will know which treatment arm the patient is receiving.

Study Type

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Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

Enrollment

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460

Phase

Phase

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  • Phase 2
  • Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

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Study Locations

  • Denmark
    • Capital Region
      • Gentofte Municipality, Capital Region, Denmark, 2820
        • Herlev and Gentofte University hospital

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Hospital admission within 24 hours.

  2. Clinical suspicion of community-acquired pneumonia necessitating antibiotic treatment.

    Defined as one or more of the following:

    • Chest X-ray, CT or ultrasound findings consistent with bacterial pneumonia*
    • Symptoms consistent with bacterial pneumonia (such as dyspnea, tachypnea, cough or purulent sputum)

  3. C-reactive protein >50 mg/L OR central body temperature >38.0 °C OR blood leukocytes ≥10.0×109/L (1-3 of these fulfilled).

  4. Age ≥ 18 years.

  5. Able to give informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Suspected septic shock defined as MAP < 65 mmHg on sequential measurements despite adequate volume resuscitation.

  2. Oxygen requirement >4L/min to maintain acceptable peripheral oxygen saturation*.

  3. Significant suspicion of an infection with a focus other than the lungs

  4. Contraindications for fluoroquinolone treatment, including but not limited to:

    • Known allergy to fluoroquinolones or a serious adverse reaction when previously treated with a fluoroquinolone.
    • Medical history of myasthenia gravis.

  5. Reduced kidney function (eGFR < 20 mL/min/1.73 m²).

  6. Suspected aspiration pneumonia, pulmonary abscess, or pleural empyema / complicated parapneumonic effusion.

  7. Suspicion of clinically significant cardiac conduction disorders/arrhythmias or prolonged QTc interval (QTc (f) > 480ms).

  8. Pregnancy**.

Study Plan

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How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Participant Group / Arm

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Active Comparator: Standard-of-care (Control)

Systemic antibiotic treatment
Drug: Standard-of-care / Usual care

Standard-of-care / Usual care deemed of antibiotic treatment for community-acquired pneumonia assessed by the treating physician
Experimental: Inhaled levofloxacin
Drug: Inhaled levofloxacin

Inhaled levofloxacin 240mg twice daily

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
DAOH14
Time Frame: From inclusion to 14 days after

Days alive and out of hospital day 14
From inclusion to 14 days after

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Sponsor

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Copenhagen Respiratory Research

Investigators

Investigators

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  • Study Director: Jens-Ulrik S Jensen, Professor, PhD, Medical Doctor, Copenhagen Respiratory Research

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

Study Start

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October 8, 2026

Primary Completion (Estimated)

Primary Completion

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September 1, 2028

Study Completion (Estimated)

Study Completion

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September 1, 2029

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

First Submitted

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September 21, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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September 21, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

First Posted

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September 25, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

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November 5, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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November 4, 2026

Last Verified

Last Verified

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September 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

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Other Study ID Numbers

Other Study ID Numbers

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  • 2024-511420-13-00
  • 2024-511420-13-00 (Ctis)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

All reasonable requests will be considered for pseudo-anonymized datasharing in accordance with applicable law of datasharing in the state of Denmark.

IPD Sharing Time Frame

At earliest 1 year after Last patients last visit.

IPD Sharing Access Criteria

To be determined

IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type

  • STUDY_PROTOCOL
  • SAP
  • ANALYTIC_CODE

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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