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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00717600
Date of registration: 16/07/2008
Primary sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine
Public title: Bacteriuria Eradication Through Probiotics BERP
Scientific title: Bacteriuria Eradication Through Probiotics
Date of first enrolment: January 2008
Target sample size: 10
Recruitment status: Enrolling by invitation
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00717600
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Eric A Jones, M.D.
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Affiliation:  Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Eligible subjects are girls (age 3 months to 18 years) with spina bifida as a sole
urologic diagnosis

- perform clean intermittent catheterization because of neurogenic bladder.

- Secondary vesicoureteral reflux is permissible.

- Patients with appendicovesicostomies and no other forms of urinary diversion are
permitted.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients will be excluded if they are taking antibiotics

- immunosuppressed, i.e., transplant recipients or children with congenital
immunodeficiencies

- poorly controlled diabetes

- untreated HIV infection

- immunosuppression from corticosteroids

- malnutrition

- pregnancy

- chronic indwelling catheters in the bladder

- any urinary diversion or bladder augmentation.



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: 18 Years
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Bacteriuria
Intervention(s)
Dietary Supplement: Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14 and Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1
Primary Outcome(s)
bacteriuria [Time Frame: 3 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
urinary tract infections [Time Frame: 3 months]
Secondary ID(s)
H-21679
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Chr Hansen A/S
Lawson Health Research Institute
Texas Children's Hospital
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