Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infection
Conditions
Brief summary
Open-label, single center, prospective interventional non-comparative study for CRE carriers.
Detailed description
Antibiotic resistance has emerged worldwide and is of major concern leading to multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria that are widely spread and are a major factor in morbidity and mortality in health-care settings. Among MDRs, carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are of special concern, receiving the highest classification of urgent threat level in the US President Report. Consistent mortality rates of 40-50% are observed among inpatients with infections caused by CRE in hospitals worldwide, related mainly to unavailable, delayed or ineffective antibiotic treatment options. The extremely high mortality rates of patients with CRE infections have driven efforts to prevent the acquisition and spread of these bacteria in hospitals. These include screening for carriage, contact isolation of carriers, cohorting, dedicated healthcare staff and other infection control measures. These strategies have been proven as effective but are cumbersome and expensive. In most locations these strategies failed to completely eradicate CRE endemicity. CRE decolonization (eradication of colonization) might offer a double benefit: reducing the risk for the individual carrier to develop an infection due to the resistant strain (by that, potentially lowering the mortality risk) and preventing the bacteria from spreading to other patients, exposing them to the same hazard. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), in which fecal material enriched with commensal microorganisms is transferred from a healthy donor, have proven efficacy in the treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in multiple trails. Major adverse events that has been reported so far are mostly related to the route of administration (aspiration during nasogastric tube administration/colonoscopy). Other adverse events include mostly GI related symptoms (diarrhea, nausea, belching) and are self limited and resolve in few hours. FMT seems to be safe and effective both in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. The high efficacy of FMT in the treatment of a multi-drug resistant pathogen such as Clostridium difficile, suggest that it might be an efficient tool for other MDR pathogens (e.g. CRE). The potential of FMT to restore the gut microbiome and compete with residual resistant strains offer a novel way to fight the current MDR epidemic. The investigators aim to assess the effects of FMT on colonization and clinical infections with CRE. The investigators will apply FMT on a cohort of CRE carriers in a single center in Israel. FMT will be given by capsules for 2 consecutive days followed by rectal sampling at predefined time-point in the following 6 months.
Interventions
BIOLOGICALFMT
Fecal microbiota in frozen capsules
Sponsors
Rambam Health Care Campus
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 120 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
We will include adult inpatients ≥18 years positive for CRE of any strain and resistance mechanism in rectal surveillance stool samples, with or without CRE clinical samples. We will mandate a positive rectal swab within one week before randomization. Several
Exclusion criteria
may change throughout the patients' hospitalization and we will follow-up patients for these criteria until reaching eligibility or not (designed as (for follow-up)). Non-eligible patients discharged will be re-evaluated for inclusion when re-admitted.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CRE eradication | 28 days | Number of participants achieving CRE eradication , defined as 3 consecutive negative rectal cultures, with polymerase chain reaction preformed in the last sample. For patients with clinical infections, eradication definition will include a negative culture from the site of infection, if relevant at the time of eradication. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mortality | 28-day and 6 months | Number of participants who died by 28-day and 6 month |
| Bacteremia | 6 months | Number of participants with CRE bacteremia and any bacteremia |
| CRE eradication rates at day 14, day 30 and 3 & 6 months | days 7, 14, months 3, 6 | Number of participants achieving CRE eradication rates at day 14, day 30, and 3 & 6 months |
| Hospitalization days | 6 months | Totals days in-hospital |
| Adverse events | 6 months | Number of participants with: pneumonia within a week after the intervention; dyspeptic complaints collected at the time of rectal sampling; changes in bowel habit including diarrhea and constipation; discontinuation of FMT before completing the study protocol |
| CRE infection | 6 months | Number of participants with non-bacteremic new clinically-significant CRE infections |
Countries
Israel
Outcome results
None listed