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Assessing Infectious Threats in “Healthy” FMT Donors: Results of an Assessment Program to Support a Next-Generation Drug for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection

Courtney Jones, BS; Mary Kay Sobcinski, RN, MHA; Matt Adams MS; Rebiotix Inc, Roseville, MN

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Infectious Diseases Week 2015
October 7-11, 2015, San Diego, CA

Background

  • Microbiota Restoration Therapy is the Rebiotix platform for delivering human-derived microbes into a sick patient’s intestinal tract to treat disease.
  • RBX2660 (microbiota suspension) is currently under investigation for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).
  • RBX2660 is sourced from human-derived microbes and manufactured using standardized, quality controlled processes.
  • A donor program was implemented to provide a reliable source of raw material to supply Phase 2 studies.

Donor Recruitment and Screening

  • Potential donors were recruited by word-of-mouth.
  • Nearby universities were targeted as a source of young, healthy donors.
  • A one-time recruitment bonus and nominal payments for accepted donations were offered.
  • Potential donors underwent an initial screening process (Figure 1) for an extensive list of blood and stool pathogens prior to enrollment.
  • Failures were permanently excluded.

Ongoing Donations

  • If accepted into the program, donors agreed to make a minimum of 3 donations per week. A maximum of 10 donations per week was allowed (2 times daily, Monday through Friday). Each donation was tested for blood and stool pathogens.
  • Daily health and diet questionnaires were completed with each donation to ensure there were no major changes in travel, medication, diet and health status (Figure 2).
  • All donations were made on site and stored under controlled conditions.
  • Donations were not pooled; aliquots from every donated stool were tested for pathogens using an extensive screen.
  • At the end of each approximately 45-day donation cycle (Figure 3), donors underwent blood testing and donated aliquots underwent testing for pathogens.
  • A positive result on any of the screens triggered destruction of all drug product associated with the donor during a cycle and exclusion of the donor from the program.

Conclusions

  • A substantial number of outwardly healthy donors used to source intestinal microbes for a drug under study for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection were found unsuitable due to underlying conditions.
  • Reasons for rejection included asymptomatic carriage of an E. coli strain associated with hemorrhagic diarrhea and asymptomatic norovirus and rotavirus, which typically cause symptoms.
  • Stringent screening of donors is required when sourcing live human-microbes used for treatment of disease.

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