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Awarded Trial: 01T-435

Grant ID

01T-435

Illness

Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia

Primary Drug/Intervention

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole

Primary Dosage

400 mg

Secondary Drug Intervention

N/A

Secondary Dosage

N/A

Other Drug/Intervention

N/A

Other Dosage

N/A

Status

Completed

Investigator

Li

Sample Size

1500

Duration of Study Period for Each Subject

18 months

Outcome Measurements

PANSS, BPRS, HAMD, YMRS

Results

Six hundred patients with first episode schizophrenia were screened. Ninety-nine of them were seropositive for toxoplasmosis (16.5%), which was a rate higher than that seen in normal controls (5.5%), affective disorders (11.8%) or ?physical diseases? (6.0%). These 99 patients were randomized to receive Bactrim or placebo in addition to risperidone. The investigators used 50% reduction in total PANSS scores as the final outcome measure. Eighty-five percent of patients in the Bactrim group and 69% of the patients in the placebo group achieved this criterion. This just missed statistical significance (p=0.059).

Publication

N/A

Link

N/A

PI Name

Qiuying Li

Degree

MD

Center

People's Hospital of Wuhan University

Institution

Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University

Address

Jiefang Road # 238

City or Town

Wuchang

State or Province

Wuhan

Zip or Postal Code

430060

Country

China

Email Address

huilingwt@163.net