Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 1:41 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 1:41 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00669994
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Non-pregnant, non-lactating female outpatients between the ages of 18 - 44 years (inclusive)
* Patients with at least two of the following clinical signs and symptoms of an uUTI:
* Dysuria
* Frequency
* Urgency
* Suprapubic pain
* Patients with onset of symptoms \< 72 hours prior to study entry
* Patients with one positive pre-treatment clean-catch midstream urine culture at enrollment in the study, defined as \> 10000 CFU/mL (study drug treatment is permitted prior to the availability of urine culture results)
* Positive leukocyte esterase (LE) (1+ or greater) utilizing a urine dipstick method of analysis
* Patients willing to give written informed consent
* Cultures must be performed on pre-treatment clean-catch midstream urine (MSU) specimens
Exclusion Criteria:
* Males
* Women who are pregnant, nursing, or not using two medically accepted, effective methods of birth control
* Patients with known or suspected hypersensitivity to quinolones
* Patients unable to take oral medication for any reason
* Patients with an asymptomatic bacteriuria
* Patients with complicated UTI, defined as: a clinical syndrome characterized by the development of systemic and local signs and symptoms of fever (\> 38.3°C/101°F orally), chills, malaise, flank pain, back pain, or costovertebral angle (CVA) pain or tenderness
* Symptoms as outlined in the inclusion criteria occurring in the presence of a functional or anatomical abnormality of the urinary tract or in the presence of urinary catheterization
* Patients with symptoms of a UTI within the 4 weeks prior to the present episode
* Patients with the onset of symptoms \>72 hours prior to study entry
* Patients with three or more episodes of any UTI in the past 12 months
* Patients with evidence of factors predisposing to the development of UTIs, including calculi, stricture, primary renal disease (e.g. polycystic renal disease), or neurogenic bladder
* Patients who received systemic antimicrobial therapy within 48 hours prior to entry
* Patients with a neutrophil count \< 1000/mm3, CD4 \< 200/mm3 or other conditions associated with significant depression in host defense; HIV testing is not mandatory
* Patients requiring concomitant systemic antibacterial therapy with agents not specified in this protocol
* Patients with a previous history of tendinopathy associated with fluoroquinolones
* Patients diagnosed with a rapidly fatal underlying disease (death expected within six months)
* Patients requiring concomitant use of theophylline
* Patients previously enrolled in this clinical study
* Patients taking an investigational drug in the last 30 days
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
FEMALE
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
44 Years
Study:
NCT00669994
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00669994