Human Skin and Gut Mycobiome and Bacteriome Comprehensive Registry

NCT ID: NCT05196061

Last Updated: 2025-03-13

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

5000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-01-01

Study Completion Date

2030-12-31

Brief Summary

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Bacterial and fungal microbiota will be different between individual body sites; however, particular microbiome profiles both whole-body and site-specific will be unique to volunteers with a given parameter such as medical diagnosis, diet, medications taken, geographical area; etc.

Detailed Description

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Specific aims:

1. Identify and characterize whole-body and site-specific microbiome profiles.
2. Identify phenotypic microbiome profiles unique to individual parameters such as demographics, medical diagnoses, diet; etc.
3. Perform bacterial-bacterial, fungal-fungal and bacterial-fungal correlation analysis to identify potential synergistic and antagonistic species within these unique profiles.

Conditions

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Healthy Volunteers

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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Questionnaire

Subjects will be asked to complete a questionnaire. The questionnaire will garner demographic data, medical history, medication and supplement history, gut-specific, skin-specific questions; etc. The complete questionnaire is provided with this submission for review. Demographic data includes:

1. Age
2. Sex
3. Race
4. Ethnicity

Intervention Type OTHER

Stool sample

Stool samples will be collected using a specific kit consisting of a ready-to-use package, including a user guide. When stool samples are collected, they will be immediately placed in previously prepared Fast prep tubes (MP, Cat# 5076-200-34340) containing 500 μL glass beads (Sigma-Aldrich G8772-100g) and 1 mL ASL™ lysis buffer (Qiagen DNA Extraction Kit) and transported to the laboratory where assays will be conducted. Samples will be kept in a - 20 degree Celsius freezer until they are analyzed.

Intervention Type OTHER

Skin swab

Skin swabbing is a safe, non-invasive method to sample microbiota on human skin. Areas to be swabbed: Right upper back, Non-dominant ventral forearm or Most representative lesion

Intervention Type OTHER

Oral rinse

Briefly, 20-25 ml saline will be provided in separately labelled blue capped 50-mL Falcon™ centrifuge tubes (Fisher Scientifics Co.). Each subject will be asked to swish and gargled the saline from the tube into their mouth for 2 minutes and expectorate the rinse into the tube. The tubes will be closed tightly and stored in -80 C until sequencing can be completed. Prior to use, all the tubes with oral wash samples will be completely thawed on ice, then centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 15 minutes and 20-25 ml supernatant transferred into fresh 50-mL centrifuge tubes. The pellet left in each tube will be used to extract DNA for microbiome studies

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Capable of giving informed consent.
* Able and willing to complete all required specified study procedures

Exclusion Criteria

* Antibiotic or antifungal use whether topical or systemic in the past 2 or 4 weeks, respectively.
* Unable and/or unwilling to complete all required study procedures.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Mahmoiud A. Ghannoum

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Mahmoud Ghannoum, PhD

Role: CONTACT

216-844-7834

Facility Contacts

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Mahmoud Ghannoum, PhD

Role: primary

References

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Grice EA, Kong HH, Conlan S, Deming CB, Davis J, Young AC; NISC Comparative Sequencing Program; Bouffard GG, Blakesley RW, Murray PR, Green ED, Turner ML, Segre JA. Topographical and temporal diversity of the human skin microbiome. Science. 2009 May 29;324(5931):1190-2. doi: 10.1126/science.1171700.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Grice EA, Segre JA. The skin microbiome. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2011 Apr;9(4):244-53. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro2537.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Mukherjee PK, Chandra J, Retuerto M, Tatsuoka C, Ghannoum MA, McComsey GA. Dysbiosis in the oral bacterial and fungal microbiome of HIV-infected subjects is associated with clinical and immunologic variables of HIV infection. PLoS One. 2018 Jul 11;13(7):e0200285. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200285. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29995962 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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STUDY20191290

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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