Clinical trials: Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis
Maternal Probiotic Intervention to Improve Gut Health
This trial will determine if a well-established probiotic, Vivomixx, can modulate maternal microbiota and ameliorate maternal environmental enteropathy which compromises growth in the first 1000 days.
- Trial name
- MPIGH (NCT06196450)
- Testing
- Vivomixx, Microcrystalline maltose
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 76 people
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Stunting, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
Safety, Acceptability, and Feasibility of Enterade®
This is a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled pilot study to determine the safety, acceptability, and feasible pediatric dosage/tolerability of enterade® solution, an amino acid-based oral rehydration solution…
- Trial name
- SAFE (NCT03782272)
- Testing
- Enterade
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- PATH
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
Glucagon-like Peptide 2 (GLP-2) in Undernourished Women Improving From Histology-Confirmed Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED)
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether teduglutide, a medicine that helps the intestine heal, can improve environmental enteric dysfunction in undernourished women aged 18 to 35 years living in urban slums of Dhaka.
- Trial name
- GAME (NCT07537686)
- Testing
- Teduglutide 0.05 dose
- Volunteers
- 55 people
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Stunting, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
The Effect of Bovine Colostrum/ Egg Supplementation in Young Malawian Children
The trial will consist of adding either a supplement of 4.3g egg powder + 5.7g bovine colostrum or a control flour along with a multiple micronutrient powder to the diets of healthy Malawian children 9 months of age.
- Trial name
- NCT03801317
- Testing
- BC/ egg, Control, multiple micronutrient
- Where
- Malawi
- Volunteers
- 278 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Rotavirus Infections, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
SaniVac Trial - Sanitation and Oral Rotavirus Vaccine Performance
This is a controlled cohort study to assess the effect of improved sanitation on oral rotavirus vaccine performance in low-income urban neighbourhoods of Maputo, Mozambique.
- Conditions
- Rotavirus Infections, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, Enteric Infections
- Trial name
- NCT03313128
- Testing
- Sanitation
- Where
- Mozambique
- Volunteers
- 261 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
Maternal Probiotic Intervention to Improve Gut Health - Trial II - Bangladesh
Burden: Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED) is an enteropathic condition characterised by altered gut permeability, infiltration of immune cells and changes in villous architecture and cell differentiation.
- Trial name
- MPIGH-II (NCT06817031)
- Testing
- VE818, Oral Vancomycin
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 144 people
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Malnutrition, Infection
The Bangladesh Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Study
This is a community-based intervention study which will be undertaken at Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Participants will be recruited from two age groups: a child cohort (age 12 to 18 months) and an adult cohort (age 18 to 45…
- Trial name
- BEED (NCT02812615)
- Testing
- Egg, Milk, Albendazole/Pyrantel Pamoate
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 1,575 people
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Stunting, Malnutrition; Protein
Protein Plus: Improving Infant Growth Through Diet and Enteric Health
This cluster-randomized controlled trial is designed to address linear growth faltering in 6-12-mo-old Bangladesh infants through a proof-of-concept package of interventions to a) increase intake of high quality protein and b)…
- Conditions
- Stunting, Malnutrition; Protein, Enteric Pathogens, Campylobacter Infections
- Trial name
- JiVitA-6 (NCT03683667)
- Testing
- Azithromycin Oral Product, Protein Supplement, Isocaloric Supplement
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 5,283 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Moderate Acute Malnutrition, Stunting
Eggs for Gut Health
The goal of this clinical trial is to test egg powder supplementation in children with moderate acute malnutrition in Sierra Leone.
- Conditions
- Moderate Acute Malnutrition, Stunting, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, Severe Acute Malnutrition
- Trial name
- NCT06002438
- Testing
- Whole egg powder, Corn powder, Supercereal Plus
- Where
- 10 sites in Sierra Leone
- Volunteers
- 461 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Malnutrition, Environmental Enteropathy
Intervention and Mechanisms of Alanyl-Glutamine for Inflammation, Nutrition, and Enteropathy
Several host factors underlie the pathogenesis of the reciprocal cycle of childhood diarrhea and undernutrition in developing countries.
- Conditions
- Malnutrition, Environmental Enteropathy, Diarrhea
- Trial name
- IMAGINE (NCT01832636)
- Testing
- Alanyl-Glutamine
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 112 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Birth Outcomes, Stunting
Uganda Birth Cohort Study
The UBC was a USAID-funded longitudinal prospective cohort study of pregnant women (n= 5030) aged 15-49 years from rural North and South-Western regions of Uganda, conducted between 2014 and 2016.
- Conditions
- Birth Outcomes, Stunting, Wasting, Anemia
- Trial name
- UBC (NCT04233944)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 5,044 people
- Sponsor
- Tufts University
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
Probiotic For the Improvement of Environmental Enteropathy in Pregnant Women in Senegal
Stunting in young children refers to attenuated linear growth. In the year 2020, 149.2 million children under the age of 5 were stunted, accounting for 22% of stunting globally.
- Trial name
- PROFE-Sen (NCT05501470)
- Testing
- Probiotic, CapScan®
- Where
- Senegal
- Volunteers
- 76 people
- Sponsor
- Institut Pasteur de Dakar
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED)
Maternal Probiotic Intervention to Improve Gut Health - Trial II - Burkina Faso (MPIGH-II)
Burden: Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED) is an enteropathic condition characterized by altered gut permeability, infiltration of immune cells and changes in villous architecture and cell differentiation.
- Trial name
- MPIGH-II (NCT07134790)
- Testing
- VE818, Oral Vancomycin
- Where
- Burkina Faso
- Volunteers
- 144 people
- Sponsor
- University Ghent
Malnutrition
L-Carnitine Supplementation, Rate of Weight Gain and EED in Children With SAM
Background: Burden: Globally, an estimated 14.3 million under-5 children are severely malnourished. Two-thirds of them live in Asian countries, including Bangladesh.
- Trial name
- NCT05083637
- Testing
- L- carnitine oral solution
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 98 people
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh