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This study will randomized hematology oncology patients with active diarrhea and a NAAT positive/toxin EIA negative to either 14 days of oral vancomycin capsules or placebo. The study is designed to include 30 patients (15 per arm).

Outcomes will include C. difficile load using qPCR, VRE loads, structural and functional microbiome changes and frequency of bowel movements. All endpoints will be measured at several time points including days 0, 14, 21 and 90.


Clinical Trial Description

The adverse health consequences resulting from antibiotic overtreatment of NAAT(+), toxin(-) patients may be particularly important in transplant recipients. The usual treatment prescribed for CDI at the Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital is oral vancomycin. While this drug has excellent activity against C. difficile and commonly suppresses its growth to non-detection, it does not eradicate carriage and its use results in marked and prolonged disruption of the lower intestinal microbiota. Meanwhile, the degree of lower intestinal microbiota disruption at the time of HSCT engraftment has been demonstrated to be an independent predictor (controlling for other markers of underlying disease) of overall and transplant-related 3-year mortality.14 In addition, recent findings suggest that bone marrow suppressive effects of antibiotics, in this case potentially unnecessary oral vancomycin (which is not appreciably absorbed), may be solely mediated via microbiota disruption. All these data supports the notion that antibiotic treatment of NAAT(+), toxin(-) C. difficile patients might have significant negative repercussions without a clear clinical benefit. ;


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NCT number NCT03030248
Study type Interventional
Source Medical College of Wisconsin
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 2
Start date June 1, 2018
Completion date June 30, 2020

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