This study aims to determine whether a parent-to-child nasal microbiota transplant (NMT) can seed and engraft parental organisms into the neonatal microbiome and increase the neonatal microbiome diversity.
This parent-to-child NMT study will test the effect of an anterior nares, or nasal, microbiota transplant (NMT) on seeding, engraftment, and diversity of the neonatal microbiome. Neonates admitted to the Johns Hopkins Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) will be screened and parents will be approached for enrollment in the study. After consent and baseline screening of parents and neonates, eligible neonates will undergo an NMT.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
175
nasal microbiota transplant
Placebo sterile swab
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
RECRUITINGNeonatal nasal microbiome diversity after intervention
This outcome will be determined by analysis of periodic surveillance swabs collected after intervention.
Time frame: Day 2, 4, 7, 10, 14 days post-intervention
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