Optimizing the Dose of Tafenoquine for the Radical Cure of Plasmodium Vivax Malaria in Southeast Asia

Who is this study for? Patients with plasmodium vivax malaria in Southeast Asia
What treatments are being studied? Tafenoquine
Status: Recruiting
Location: See all (5) locations...
Intervention Type: Drug
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Phase 4
SUMMARY

Tafenoquine was recently approved by regulatory authorities in the USA and Australia. Tafenoquine is an alternative radical curative treatment to primaquine acting against the dormant liver stage of Plasmodium vivax (the hypnozoite). Tafenoquine (an 8-aminoquinoline) has the substantial advantage of single dosing as compared to a 14-day course of primaquine to achieve radical cure. The recommended tafenoquine dose is 300 mg, which was shown to be significantly worse in radical curative efficacy to a total primaquine dose of 3.5 mg/kg in Southeast Asia. The cure rate of tafenoquine 300 mg in Southeast Asian study sites was only 74%. The comparator 3.5 mg/kg total primaquine dose is the standard and most commonly used dose globally, but in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific, higher doses of primaquine are needed for radical cure. This study aims to determine the optimal dose of tafenoquine in Southeast Asia.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 2
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Patients with symptomatic P. vivax mono-infection as diagnosed by microscopy

• Fever or history of fever in the previous 7 days

• Quantitative G6PD activity ≥70% of the population median

• Weight \>10 kg and ≥2 years old

• Ability to understand the study instructions and provide written informed consent.

• Willing to be followed for 4 months

Locations
Other Locations
Cambodia
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Cambodia
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Siem Reap
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao Oxford Mahosot Hospital Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU)
RECRUITING
Vientiane
Thailand
Mahidol Vivax Research Unit (MVRU)
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Bangkok
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU)
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Bangkok
Viet Nam
Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU)
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Bình Phước
Contact Information
Primary
Cindy Chu, MD, PhD
cindy@tropmedres.ac
+856 (0) 21 250 752
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-07-22
Estimated Completion Date: 2028-02-07
Participants
Target number of participants: 700
Treatments
Active_comparator: Tafenoquine standard dose (TQ-current)
Arm 1~* \>10 kg to ≤20 kg 100 mg~* \>20 kg kg ≤35 kg 200 mg~* \>35 kg 300 mg~Tafenoquine will be given as 100 mg coated tablets. Tablets will be given, and dosing will be based on weight bands.
Active_comparator: Tafenoquine 50% higher dose (TQ-higher)
Arm 2~* \>10 kg to ≤20 kg 150 mg~* \>20 kg kg ≤35 kg 300 mg~* \>35 kg 450 mg~Tafenoquine will be given as 100 mg coated tablets. Whole tablets will be given, and dosing will be based on weight bands.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: University of Oxford

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov