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NCT number NCT05169255
Other study ID # 121456
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase Phase 3
First received
Last updated
Start date December 7, 2012
Est. completion date April 22, 2016

Study information

Verified date December 2021
Source University of California, San Diego
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Antibiotics are a mainstay of life-saving interventions used frequently in medical practice to combat infections. These medications not only target the pathogenic bacteria for which they are prescribed but also function against commensal bacterial communities that inhabit the gut, skin, and oropharynx. The role that these native bacterial communities play in normal host function, such as in nutrition and host immunity, is only beginning to be explored, as are the changes in the communities and their function as a result of various alterations of antibiotic use. Short courses of antibiotics have been shown to affect the diversity of native bacterial communities, and to affect the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes present. For example, use of clindamycin in human subjects for 7 days has been demonstrated to result in persistent clindamycin resistance for months or years. The impact of prolonged antibiotic therapy on the host microbiome including both those organisms present and the diversity of antibiotic genes has not been studied, and we have very little understanding of the longitudinal effects of antimicrobial therapy on the genetic repertoire present in human microbial communities. In this study, we will examine changes in the microbiota as well as frequency of antibacterial resistance genes harbored in skin, saliva, and colonic microbiomes longitudinally in subjects on prolonged antimicrobial therapy, as well as household members of the person on antibiotic therapy. Previously well patients with minimal prior antibiotic exposure will be enrolled upon diagnosis of an infection requiring long-term antibiotic therapy, such as osteomyelitis or prosthetic joint infection, prior to starting antibiotic therapy. We will examine the microbiota of the skin, saliva, and gut prior to antibiotics as well as the frequency of antibiotic resistance genes harbored within these microbial communities. We will compare microbial communities and antibiotic resistance gene frequencies before, during and after prolonged course of antibiotics in patients on antibiotics. We will also look for alterations that occur among microbiomes or antibiotic resistance genes among household members of people on antibiotics.


Description:

Commensal flora are thought to play important roles in maintaining human health. Bacterial communities and the antibiotic resistance genes harbored within them are likely altered by selective pressure imposed by antibiotic use in clinical settings. Perturbations to the endogenous microbial communities as a result of antibiotic use may have a significant impact on the microbiome and the antibiotic resistance genes carried within. We aim to study how microbial communities are altered by prolonged antibiotic therapy using metagenomics techniques. In addition to measuring the diversity of bacterial genotypes present, we plan to characterize the repertoire of antibiotic resistance genes in human subjects exposed to prolonged courses of antibiotics. We also will measure the effect of environment on the antibiotic resistance repertoire of human microbial communities by assessing antibiotic genes present in subjects that reside in the same household compared to other subjects. Aim 1: To improve our understanding of the effects of prolonged antibiotic courses on native bacterial communities of human skin, mouth, and colon during and after therapeutic courses of antibiotics. We will look at alterations in bacterial diversity within these communities in quantity as well as quality (how classes of bacteria are altered) using metagenomics. Aim 2: To improve our understanding of effects of prolonged antibiotic use on the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in the human microbiome over time. We will follow presence and diversity and quantity of antibiotic resistance genes present in commensal bacterial communities longitudinally before, during, and following prolonged antibiotic courses. Aim 3: To assess whether the bacterial communities present in members of the same household are changed as a result of environmental influences rather than direct antibiotic administration.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 60
Est. completion date April 22, 2016
Est. primary completion date April 22, 2016
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 18 Years to 75 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Age 18-75 - Capacity to give consent, provide samples, and follow-up at routine clinic appointments Exclusion Criteria: - Antibiotic use (outside of 72 hour period prior to diagnosis or peri-operative short course) within the 3 months prior to enrollment - Unable to provide consent or samples - immunocompromised conditions such as HIV/AIDS, SLE, organ or bone marrow transplant recipient, on immunosuppressants for autoimmune disease, genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis that may result in substantial alteration in colonized community. - inability to provide 3mL of saliva without stimulation - critical illness

Study Design


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Intervention

Drug:
Antibiotic administration
Individuals received either azithromycin or amoxicillin for 3 or 7 days

Locations

Country Name City State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University of California, San Diego

References & Publications (2)

Abeles SR, Jones MB, Santiago-Rodriguez TM, Ly M, Klitgord N, Yooseph S, Nelson KE, Pride DT. Microbial diversity in individuals and their household contacts following typical antibiotic courses. Microbiome. 2016 Jul 30;4(1):39. doi: 10.1186/s40168-016-01 — View Citation

Ly M, Jones MB, Abeles SR, Santiago-Rodriguez TM, Gao J, Chan IC, Ghose C, Pride DT. Transmission of viruses via our microbiomes. Microbiome. 2016 Dec 2;4(1):64. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Microbiome Individuals received 3 or 7 days of antibiotics and were followed for 6 months 6 months
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