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Register: RPCEC
Last refreshed on: 29 April 2013
Main ID:  RPCEC00000095
Date of registration: 21/04/2010
Primary sponsor: Central Military Hospital "Carlos J. Finlay"
Public title: Mebendazole compared with secnidazole-adult giardiasis-Phase III
Scientific title: Efficacy and safety of mebendazole compared with secnidazole in the treatment of adult giardiasis: a randomised clinical trial
Date of first enrolment: 04/05/2006
Target sample size: 110
Recruitment status: Closed
URL:  http://registroclinico.sld.cu/trials/RPCEC00000095-En
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomization: Randomized Controlled Trial Blinding: Open. Placebo: Active Assignment: Parallel Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Cuba
Contacts
Name: Pedro  Almirall Carbonell
Address:  Calle D entre Zapata y 29 (Vedado) Plaza. 10400 Havana city Cuba
Telephone: 53 7 8326550
Email: almicar@infomed.sld.cu
Affiliation:  Faculty of Medical Sciences "Comandante Manuel Fajardo"
Name: Pedro  Almirall Carbonell
Address:  Calle D entre Zapata y 29 (Vedado) Plaza. 10400 Havana city Cuba
Telephone: 53 7 8326550
Email: almicar@infomed.sld.cu
Affiliation:  Faculty of Medical Sciences "Comandante Manuel Fajardo"
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Informed-consent form signed. Patients with 18 years and older.
Exclusion criteria: Patients who had previously received any antiparasitic drug within 1 month before entering the study. Have known about any hypersensitivity to any of the drugs in use. Have any immunodeficiency disease. Have any hepatic disease. Have any renal disease. Have any cardiovascular disease. Have any haematological disease. Have used other drugs joined to the drugs in use. Women were pregnant or lactation.

Age minimum: 18 years
Age maximum: None
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Giardiasis
Intervention(s)
Group I (Experimental): Mebendazole 200 mg by oral route three times during three days, (64 patients). Group II (Control): Secnidazole 2g by oral route in a single dose, a single day, (62 patients).
Primary Outcome(s)
Parasitological answer (Cured: If no Giardia cysts or trophozoites be found in any of the three post-treatment faecal simples, Not cured: Other case (microscopical examination as direct wet mount and Ritchie concentration. Measuring time: 3, 5 and 7 days after treatment completion. Clinical answer (Without clinical manifestations, with a relieve of the clinical manifestations, with the same clinical manifestations). Measuring time: 12 days after treatment completion.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Adverse Events (description of the events). Measuring time: 3 days after treatment completion. Intensity of AE (Slight, moderate or severe, taking into account the grade of disfunction produced by the event). Measuring time: 3 days after treatment completion.
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Central Military Hospital "Carlos J. Finlay"
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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