Artemisia Annua Infusion for the Treatment of Asymptomatic Plasmodium Falciparum Infection (ART-CT001)
9. september 2026 opdateret af: Centre de Recherche Médicale de Lambaréné
Clinical Assessment of the Safety and Efficacy of Artemisia Annua Infusion Preparation for the Treatment of Asymptomatic Plasmodium Falciparum Infection in Semi-immune Adults in Gabon
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether Artemisia annua dried leaves, used as an infusion, can treat individuals with malaria parasites but no symptoms. The main question it aims to answer is:
Can Artemisia annua infusion be used to treat malaria?
Researchers will compare those receiving Artemisia annua infusion with those receiving an infusion of Centaurii herba (which has no effect on malaria parasites) to see whether all individuals treated with Artemisia annua infusion are cured, which should not be the case for those receiving Centaurii herba infusion.
Participants will
- drink Artemisia annua infusion over seven days (three days at our research centre and four days at their home
- visit the research centre once a week for three weeks after treatment for one month for safety reasons
Studieoversigt
Status
Ikke rekrutterer endnu
Betingelser
Intervention / Behandling
Detaljeret beskrivelse
For safety reasons, participants will be followed up daily for malaria-like symptoms and parasite counts until the end of treatment. Indeed, if they are not free of parasites after seven days of treatment, they will receive rescue treatment, which is the WHO-recommended malaria treatment.
Similarly, if the number of parasites in their blood increases or they develop malaria-like symptoms during treatment, they will receive rescue treatment.
Undersøgelsestype
Interventionel
Tilmelding (Anslået)
20
Fase
- Fase 1
Kontakter og lokationer
Dette afsnit indeholder kontaktoplysninger for dem, der udfører undersøgelsen, og oplysninger om, hvor denne undersøgelse udføres.
Studiekontakt
- Navn: Jean Claude Dejon Agobé, MD
- Telefonnummer: 0024177989191
- E-mail: jcagobe@cermel.org
Studiesteder
-
-
Gabon
-
Lambaréné, Gabon, Gabon, BP: 242
- Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné
-
Kontakt:
- Jean Claude Dejon Agobé, MD, PhD
- Telefonnummer: 0024177989191
- E-mail: jcagobe@cermel.org
-
Kontakt:
- Christian Chassem Lapue, MD
- Telefonnummer: 0024177989191
- E-mail: christian.chassem@cermel.org
-
Ledende efterforsker:
- Jean Claude Dejon Agobé, MD, PhD
-
Underforsker:
- Christian Chassem Lapue, MD
-
-
Deltagelseskriterier
Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.
Berettigelseskriterier
Aldre berettiget til at studere
- Voksen
Tager imod sunde frivillige
Ingen
Beskrivelse
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age: 18 to 45 years
- Absence of fever (body temperature <37.5ºC axillary or <38.0°C oral, rectal or tympanic temperature)
- Asymptomatic P. falciparum infection with parasitemia between 500 and 2,000 asexual P. falciparum parasites per μl of blood
- Have been living in an endemic area for at least 5 years.
- Written informed consent from the participant
- Residence in the vicinity of the study centre
- Willingness to comply with the follow-up schedule
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of fever over the last 72 hours
- Non-Plasmodium falciparum infection
- Intake of any antimalarial drug or antibiotic with antimalarial activity within the previous 28 days and/or after half-life time
- Presence of signs and symptoms related by the medical doctor to malaria
- Known history or evidence of clinically significant medical disorders
- Severe malnutrition
- Haemoglobin concentration <7 g/dL
- Known hypersensitivity and contraindications to any study medication
- Pregnancy or lactation
- Participation in other interventional studies
Studieplan
Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.
Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?
Design detaljer
- Primært formål: Behandling
- Tildeling: Randomiseret
- Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
- Maskning: Ingen (Åben etiket)
Våben og indgreb
Deltagergruppe / Arm |
Intervention / Behandling |
|---|---|
|
Placebo komparator: Kontrolarm
|
The research team will prepare one litre of 'Herba Centaurii' infusion every morning, which will be given to the participants in three splits every 8 hours, under the supervision of the research team for seven consecutive days.
Andre navne:
|
|
Eksperimentel: Artemisia arm
|
Dried Artemisia annua leaves will be used to prepare an infusion by adding 5 mg of dried leaves to 1 litre of boiled water.
The mixture will be left to stand for 15 minutes, then stirred and strained before being administered to the participant.
Participants will receive 1 litre of this infusion (prepared each morning) per day for seven consecutive days.
The research team will administer the daily dose in three splits at 8-hour intervals.
|
Hvad måler undersøgelsen?
Primære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
|---|---|---|
|
Number of participants in whom the parasitaemia was cleared
Tidsramme: On day 7 from the first day of treatment
|
No parasites detected in the thick blood smear (microscopic method)
|
On day 7 from the first day of treatment
|
Sekundære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
|---|---|---|
|
Number of participants cured
Tidsramme: From the last day of treatment (day 7) to the end of the follow-up period on day 28
|
Defined as the absence of Plasmodium infection (including reinfections) following treatment, as determined by microscopy and adjusted by PCR, in the per-protocol and intention-to-treat populations.
|
From the last day of treatment (day 7) to the end of the follow-up period on day 28
|
|
Number of adverse events
Tidsramme: From the first day of treatment (enrolment) to the end of the treatment period on day 7
|
Types, proportions, severity, and causality of adverse events will be recorded as measures of tolerability and safety
|
From the first day of treatment (enrolment) to the end of the treatment period on day 7
|
Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere
Det er her, du vil finde personer og organisationer, der er involveret i denne undersøgelse.
Samarbejdspartnere
Efterforskere
- Studiestol: Steffen Borrmann, Prof., Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Wilhelmstraße 27, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
- Studiestol: Ayôla Akim Adegnika, Prof., Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné
Datoer for undersøgelser
Disse datoer sporer fremskridtene for indsendelser af undersøgelsesrekord og resumeresultater til ClinicalTrials.gov. Studieregistreringer og rapporterede resultater gennemgås af National Library of Medicine (NLM) for at sikre, at de opfylder specifikke kvalitetskontrolstandarder, før de offentliggøres på den offentlige hjemmeside.
Studer store datoer
Studiestart (Anslået)
1. september 2026
Primær færdiggørelse (Anslået)
1. maj 2027
Studieafslutning (Anslået)
1. juni 2027
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først indsendt
9. september 2026
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
9. september 2026
Først opslået (Faktiske)
15. september 2026
Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler
Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)
15. september 2026
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
9. september 2026
Sidst verificeret
1. august 2026
Mere information
Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse
Nøgleord
Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår
Andre undersøgelses-id-numre
- SRC-2024-04
Plan for individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)
Planlægger du at dele individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)?
UBESLUTET
Lægemiddel- og udstyrsoplysninger, undersøgelsesdokumenter
Studerer et amerikansk FDA-reguleret lægemiddelprodukt
Ingen
Studerer et amerikansk FDA-reguleret enhedsprodukt
Ingen
Disse oplysninger blev hentet direkte fra webstedet clinicaltrials.gov uden ændringer. Hvis du har nogen anmodninger om at ændre, fjerne eller opdatere dine undersøgelsesoplysninger, bedes du kontakte register@clinicaltrials.gov. Så snart en ændring er implementeret på clinicaltrials.gov, vil denne også blive opdateret automatisk på vores hjemmeside .