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Trial reportThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2014

A phase one safety study of Lactobacillus reuteri conducted in the Peruvian Amazon: Observations from the field.

Richard A Oberhelman, Margaret N Kosek, Pablo Peñataro-Yori, Maribel Paredes-Olórtegui, Eamonn Connolly

Abstract readClinical Trial, Phase IRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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2 · The registry

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Richard A OberhelmanTulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Asociación Benéfica Prisma, Unidad de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Iquitos, Peru; Infant Bacterial Therapeutics AB, Gamla Brogatan 11, 111 20 Stockholm, Sweden.
Margaret N Kosek
Pablo Peñataro-Yori
Maribel Paredes-Olórtegui
Eamonn Connolly

Funding

Probiotics in Pediatric Diarrhea in Peru_SupplementU01AT002733 · NCCIH · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI OBERHELMAN, RICHARD A · 2009 to 2012
$1.6M
Probiotics in Pediatric Diarrhea in PeruR01AT002733 · NCCIH · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI OBERHELMAN, RICHARD A · 2007 to 2008
$561k
NCCIH NIH HHS 5U01AT002733NCCIH NIH HHS R01 AT002733NCCIH NIH HHS U01 AT002733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical research on probiotics presents challenging issues for researchers, regulators, and funding agencies, and these issues become more complex when United States federally funded research is conducted outside the United States. Here, we describe the design and results of a Phase I safety study of Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 conducted as a community-based trial under the Food and Drug Administration Investigative New Drug (FDA IND) program in a small town in the Peruvian Amazon. Forty-five healthy adults 18 to 65 years of age were randomized in a 2:1 ratio to receive either Lactobacillus reuteri 10(8) organisms once daily for 5 days or an identical appearing placebo. Results showed no evidence of invasive infection resulting from probiotic administration and no differences between groups. Although we encountered several challenges in conducting an FDA-approved safety trial in this setting, the rigorously collected contextually relevant data will be very valuable to support later Phase II/III studies of L. reuteri for use in similar settings.

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Limosilactobacillus reuteriAdolescentAdultFemaleHealthy VolunteersHumansMaleMiddle AgedPeruProbioticsYoung Adult

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PMID24515943
PMCPMC3973530

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