Merrick Blair, Prossomariti Désirée, Allen Elizabeth, Bisnauthsing Karen, Kertanegara Michael, Sergaki Chrysi, Le Guennec Adrien D, Delord Marc, Bell Jordana T, Conte Maria R, Moyes David L, Shankar-Hari Manu, Douiri Abdel, Goodman Anna L, Shawcross Debbie L, Goldenberg Simon D
Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, UK; Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, UK.
Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, UK.
J Infect. 2025 Jul;91(1):106504. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2025.106504. Epub 2025 May 16.
OBJECTIVES: The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is a reservoir of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO). Colonisation with MDRO precedes invasive infections, which can be challenging to treat with excess morbidity and mortality compared to antimicrobial-susceptible infections. Currently, there are no effective GIT decolonisation strategies. Whilst faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) has emerged as a potential therapeutic, there remains uncertainty about its feasibility, safety, and efficacy. METHODS: Population: Patients with invasive infection with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL-) or carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) and persistent GIT carriage. INTERVENTION: Three doses of encapsulated lyophilised FMT. COMPARATOR: Matched placebo capsules. OUTCOMES: Primary outcome was participant consent rate as a proportion of those approached to be screened for GIT carriage of ESBL-E/CRE. Secondary outcomes were additional feasibility, safety and tolerability, and efficacy metrics. Exploratory outcomes included stool metagenomic analysis. RESULTS: Of 460 approached individuals, 124 (27%) consented. 53/124 participants (43%) fulfilled all eligibility criteria. 44/53 (83%) of those eligible were randomised and 41/44 (93%) received investigational medicinal product (IMP): 20 FMT and 21 placebo. 39/41 (95%) completed IMP dosing. Abdominal bloating and skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders were more common following FMT, but there were no unanticipated harms. MDRO carriage decreased over time across arms but was lower at all time points in the FMT arm. FMT increased microbiome diversity and microbiome-based health measures. FMT recipients' samples clustered into two groups, with those with more dissimilar community composition to donors more likely to decolonise post-FMT (3/5 vs. 0/12, p = 0.01). Patients that decolonised exhibited a trend towards increased proportional representation of donor-derived strains in their post-FMT samples (p = 0.05) and change in strain dominance within MDRO at the species-level. CONCLUSIONS: Progression to a substantive trial is feasible with modifications to the existing FERARO protocol. FMT was safe, well tolerated, and acceptable to patients colonised with MDRO. Microbiome analysis infers that greater donor-recipient microbiome dissimilarity at baseline and higher rates of donor-derived strain engraftment favour MDRO decolonisation, which in turn maybe facilitated by conspecific strain replacement.
目的:胃肠道(GIT)是多重耐药菌(MDRO)的储存库。MDRO定植先于侵袭性感染,与对抗菌药物敏感的感染相比,侵袭性感染的治疗具有挑战性,发病率和死亡率更高。目前,尚无有效的GIT去定植策略。虽然粪便微生物群移植(FMT)已成为一种潜在的治疗方法,但其可行性、安全性和有效性仍存在不确定性。 方法:研究对象:患有产超广谱β-内酰胺酶(ESBL-)或耐碳青霉烯类肠杆菌科细菌(CRE)侵袭性感染且GIT持续携带菌的患者。 干预措施:三剂封装冻干FMT。 对照:匹配的安慰剂胶囊。 观察指标:主要观察指标是同意参与研究的参与者比例,以拟筛查ESBL-E/CRE的GIT携带者为分母。次要观察指标包括其他可行性、安全性、耐受性和有效性指标。探索性观察指标包括粪便宏基因组分析。 结果:在460名被邀请的个体中,124名(27%)同意参与。53/124名参与者(43%)符合所有纳入标准。44/53名(83%)符合条件者被随机分组,41/44名(93%)接受了研究用药品(IMP):20名接受FMT,21名接受安慰剂。39/41名(95%)完成了IMP给药。FMT后腹胀以及皮肤和皮下组织疾病更为常见,但未出现意外危害。各治疗组中MDRO携带率随时间下降,但FMT组在所有时间点的携带率均较低。FMT增加了微生物群多样性和基于微生物群的健康指标。FMT接受者的样本聚为两组,与供体群落组成差异更大的个体在FMT后更有可能去定植(3/5 vs. 0/12,p = 0.01)。去定植的患者在FMT后的样本中,供体来源菌株的比例有增加趋势(p = 0.05),且MDRO内物种水平的菌株优势发生了变化。 结论:对现有FERARO方案进行修改后开展实质性试验是可行的。FMT对MDRO定植患者安全、耐受性良好且可接受。微生物群分析推断,基线时供体与受体微生物群差异更大以及供体来源菌株植入率更高有利于MDRO去定植,而这反过来可能由同种菌株替代所促进。
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