The purpose of this study is to determine if nicotinamide in combination with bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid, is safe and effective in treating drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
165
Group 1 (Approximately 55 participants), Combination of NAM 1500 mg twice daily (BID) with bedaquiline (200 mg once daily \[QD\]), pretomanid (200 mg QD), and linezolid (600 mg QD), 56 days
Group 2 (Approximately 55 participants): Combination of NAM 2500 mg BID with bedaquiline (200 mg QD), pretomanid (200 mg QD), and linezolid (600 mg QD), 56 days
Group 3 (active control; approximately 55 participants): Combination of bedaquiline (200 mg QD), pretomanid (200 mg QD), and linezolid (600 mg QD), 56 days
Wits RHI - Shandukani Research
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
The Aurum Institute Clinical Research Site - Pretoria
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
TASK Clinical Research Centre
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Centre of Tuberculosis Research Innovation
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Bactericidal Activity
Proportion of participants with sputum culture conversion SCC to negative for Mtb in MGIT liquid culture by Week 8 (Day 56, End of Treatment \[EOTx\]), defined as two consecutive Mtb-negative culture results, collected at least 1 day apart (i.e., not collected on the same day), occurring by Week 9 (Day 64) with no subsequent Mtb-positive cultures through Week 9 (Day 64)
Time frame: From randomization through Day 64 (EOT)
Safety: SAEs
Proportion of participants with this event
Time frame: From randomization through Day 64 (EOT)
Safety: TEAEs
Proportion of participants with this event
Time frame: From randomization through Day 64 (EOT)
Safety: AESIs
Proportion of participants with this event
Time frame: From randomization through Day 64 (EOT)
Safety: TEAEs leading to treatment discontinuation
Proportion of participants with this event
Time frame: From randomization through Day 64 (EOT)
Safety: TEAEs leading to NAM dose reduction
Proportion of participants with this event
Time frame: From randomization through Day 64 (EOT)
Bactericidal Activity
Time to Sputum culture conversion to negative of Mtb in MGIT sputum culture.
Time frame: Randomization through Day 64 (EOT)
Bactericidal activity
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Group 1 (Approximately 55 participants), Combination of NAM 2500 mg twice daily (BID) with bedaquiline (200 mg once daily \[QD\]), pretomanid (200 mg QD), and linezolid (600 mg QD), 56 days
Proportion of participants with Mtb-negative MGIT sputum culture(s) at Week 4 (Day 29) and Week 8 (Day 56, EOTx), where confirmation of negative sputum culture at subsequent study timepoint is not required.
Time frame: Randomization through Day 56 (EOTx)
Evaluate the PK of NAM when administered with BPaL in Group 1 and 2
Concentrations of NAM and its primary metabolite by measuring specific PK parameters at Day 1 and Day 14 (see protocol).
Time frame: Day 1 and Day 14