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aging results of the 2-month NC-002 Phase IIb trial, 1 the<br />

STAND trial was launched in February 2015. This is a Phase<br />

III trial of the safety and efficacy of Pa(100 mg)MZ for 4<br />

months, Pa(200 mg)MZ for 4 months and Pa(200 mg)<br />

MZ for 6 months in patients with drug-susceptible TB;<br />

and of Pa(200 mg)MZ for 6 months in patients with drugresistant<br />

TB. In late 2015, enrolment was temporarily suspended<br />

due to three deaths related to high liver toxicity.<br />

Subsequently, the TB Alliance has been working with regulatory<br />

authorities and the trial’s data safety and monitoring<br />

committee to determine whether to restart enrolment, and<br />

if so, when to do so.<br />

A Phase IIb trial (NC-005) to test all-oral combination<br />

regimens started in October 2014. The regimens being<br />

tested are bedaquiline (at two different doses), pretomanid<br />

and pyrazinamide for patients with drug-susceptible TB,<br />

and the same drugs in combination with moxifloxacin for<br />

patients with MDR-TB. Enrolment was completed towards<br />

the end of 2015, and results are expected in late 2016.<br />

The NiX-TB trial is being implemented by the TB Alliance<br />

in South Africa. It is investigating the safety and efficacy<br />

of a 6-month combination of bedaquiline, pretomanid<br />

and linezolid in patients with extensively drug-resistant TB<br />

(XDR-TB). The primary end-point is the incidence of bacteriologic<br />

failure (relapse or clinical failure) 6 months after<br />

completion of treatment, with long-term follow-up for<br />

24 months after the end of treatment. Alongside this trial,<br />

the efficacy of escalating doses of linezolid in patients with<br />

drug-susceptible TB over a period of 2 weeks is also being<br />

investigated. Results will inform adjustments to the dosing<br />

of linezolid in the NiX-TB trial as well as other regimens that<br />

include linezolid.<br />

The endTB and TB-PRACTECAL trials are scheduled<br />

to start around the end of 2016. The former is a Phase III<br />

trial funded by UNITAID, and implemented by Partners in<br />

Health and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). It will compare<br />

several regimens for treatment of MDR-TB or XDR-<br />

TB with the current WHO standard of care. The regimens<br />

being tested contain bedaquiline or delamanid (or both),<br />

moxifloxacin or levofloxacin, and pyrazinamide plus linezolid<br />

or clofazimine (or both), in various combinations. The<br />

TB-PRACTECAL trial is a Phase II/III adaptive trial to evaluate<br />

the safety and efficacy of 6-month regimens that contain<br />

bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid, with or without<br />

moxifloxacin or clofazimine, for the treatment of adults<br />

with MDR-TB or XDR-TB. The trial is funded by MSF and<br />

will be conducted in Belarus, Uzbekistan, and potentially in<br />

countries in southern Africa.<br />

The NeXT study is an open label trial of a 6–9 month<br />

injection-free regimen containing bedaquiline, ethionamide<br />

or high-dose isoniazid, linezolid, levofloxacin, and<br />

pyrazinamide, compared with the WHO-recommended<br />

1<br />

Dawson R, Diacon AH, Everitt D, van Niekerk C, Donald PR, Burger DA<br />

et al. Efficiency and safety of the combination of moxifloxacin,<br />

pretomanid (PA-824), and pyrazinamide during the first 8 weeks of<br />

antituberculosis treatment: a Phase 2b, open-label, partly randomised<br />

trial in patients with drug-susceptible or drug-resistant pulmonary<br />

tuberculosis. Lancet. 2015;385(9979):1738–1747.<br />

12-month shorter regimen for MDR-TB treatment. Recruitment<br />

started in South Africa in 2016.<br />

8.2.4 Treatment of latent TB infection<br />

Several studies evaluating shorter regimens for LTBI are<br />

being implemented, particularly for prevention of LTBI<br />

in people living with HIV. ACTG A5279 is evaluating the<br />

safety and effectiveness of ultra-short-course rifapentine<br />

or isoniazid (or both) for the prevention of active TB<br />

in HIV-positive people with LTBI. Rifapentine (at a dosage<br />

based on weight) in combination with 300 mg of isoniazid<br />

for 1 month is being compared with 300 mg of isoniazid for<br />

9 months. Results are expected in the last quarter of 2017.<br />

The “Weekly High dose Isoniazid and rifapentine (P)<br />

Periodic Prophylaxis for TB” trial, known as WHIP3 TB, is<br />

due to start by the end of 2016. It will evaluate a 3-month<br />

regimen of high dose rifapentine plus isoniazid for people<br />

living with HIV, administered either as a single round or<br />

given annually. It will be implemented in South Africa, Mozambique<br />

and Ethiopia, in two parts. Part A will compare<br />

a single round of weekly high dose rifapentine plus isoniazid<br />

for three months (3HP) to six months of daily isoniazid<br />

(6H); Part B will compare periodic 3HP (p3HP) to a single<br />

round of 3HP.<br />

Two trials to investigate drugs or regimens for the prevention<br />

of TB in contacts of MDR-TB patients are being<br />

implemented or are planned. The V-QUIN MDR study is<br />

assessing 6 months of daily levofloxacin for household<br />

contacts of patients with MDR-TB. It is being conducted in<br />

Viet Nam and recruitment started in March 2016. The TB-<br />

CHAMP study is a multicentre trial to evaluate the efficacy<br />

of levofloxacin in children aged 0–5 years who are household<br />

contacts of MDR-TB cases. It is due to start in South<br />

Africa in October 2016.<br />

8.3 New vaccines to prevent TB<br />

Both the slow decline in TB incidence globally and the<br />

persistent threat of MDR-TB highlight the critical need for<br />

new TB vaccines that are more effective than the Bacille-<br />

Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine in preventing TB. The<br />

status of the pipeline for new vaccines in August 2016 is<br />

shown in Fig. 8.3. The pipeline includes recombinant BCGs,<br />

whole-cell derived vaccines, recombinant viral-vectored<br />

platforms, protein and adjuvant combinations, and mycobacterial<br />

extracts. These vaccines aim either to prevent<br />

infection (pre-exposure) or to prevent primary progression<br />

to disease or reactivation of LTBI (post-exposure). Further<br />

details are provided below.<br />

8.3.1 Phase II and Phase III clinical trials<br />

There are currently eight vaccines in Phase II or Phase III<br />

trials.<br />

M72/AS01E<br />

M72/AS01E is made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and is a recombinant<br />

fusion protein of the M. tuberculosis antigens<br />

128 :: GLOBAL <strong>TUBERCULOSIS</strong> REPORT 2016

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