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Microbiome Profile is Distinct in Patients with Successful Response to Microbiota-Based Drug RBX2660 Relative to Placebo Responders

Erik R. Dubberke MD, MSPH, Robert Orenstein DO, Christine H. Lee MD, Sahil Khanna MBBS, Gail Hecht MD, Ken Blount PhD, Bill Shannon PhD MBA

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Infectious Diseases Week (ID Week)
October 4-8, 2017, San Diego, CA

Background

  • Recurrent Clostridium difficile infections (rCDI) are associated with an altered microbiome composition and diversity compared to healthy patients
  • RBX2660, a standardized microbiota-based drug designed to rehabilitate patients’ microbiomes, was superior to placebo for preventing rCDI in a Phase2B clinical trial
  • The Phase 2B placebo-treated patients demonstrated a response rate that is consistent with the results from placebo-treated groups of other randomized-controlled rCDI trials
  • This study sought to understand whether there was a significant difference in the extent of microbiome recovery between patients who responded in the RBX2660 treatment groups and the placebo treatment group

Methods

  • Patients with rCDI were enrolled in the PUNCH CD2 trial and randomized to receive blinded treatment by enema of 2 doses of RBX2660 (Group A), 2 doses of placebo (Group B), or 1 dose of RBX2660 and 1 dose of placebo (Group C), with doses 7 days apart (Figure 1)
  • Success was defined as the absence of CDI at 8 weeks following completion of the last treatment. Patients were classified as a treatment failure if all four (4) of the following criteria were met: recurrence of diarrhea less than 8 weeks after administration of the last assigned study enema, a positive laboratory diagnosis of C. difficile as conducted and reported by the study investigator, a need for retreatment for CDI, and no other cause for diarrhea
  • Patients voluntarily submitted stool samples at baseline (pre-treatment) 7, 30, and 60 days after treatment
  • 16s rRNA analysis using the Illumina MiSeq platform was performed on stool samples collected from subjects with successful outcomes
  • The variable region V4 was targeted to identify the operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in each sample
  • Relative abundance data from subject samples were grouped longitudinally and compared among groups using a Bray-Curtis dissimilarity calculation with non-metric multi-dimensional scaling. Additional analyses were performed based on the Dirichlet-Multinomial distribution to compare group mean relative taxonomic abundances (pi) and within group over dispersion (theta)
  • Differentiation between sample communities were visualized using a Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence analysis model (BioRankings, St. Louis, MO), a measure of the difference between microbial diversity at different time points or between different samples

PUNCH™ CD2 Clinical Trial Results

  • A single dose of RBX2660 was significantly better than placebo (67%, Group C vs 46% Group B, p=0.48) (Figure 2; Intent-to-Treat analysis)
  • A second dose of RBX2660 one week later (Group A) did not provide additional clinical benefit
  • Groups A and C combined were superior to placebo (p=0.046)

Results

  • 157 stool samples collected from 57 patients classified as responders (A, n=21; B, n=15; C, n=21). Microbiome data for all patients at study entry were combined as a treatment-naïve baseline. For MDS and relative abundance analyses, Groups A and C were pooled as “active” and compared to placebo treatments longitudinally (Table 1)
  • At 7, 30, and 60 days, microbiomes from RBX2660-treated patients had high KL divergence from baseline and significantly different means from baseline (p<0.001) (Figure 3)
  • RBX2660 treatment increased the relative abundances of Bacteroidia, and decreased Gammaproteobacteria and Bacilli more than placebo treatment (Figure 4)
  • Recurrent CDI patient microbiomes were dissimilar to RBX2660 product profile at baseline. Active responders became more similar following RBX2660 treatment (Figure 5)

Conclusion

  • Among patients who were recurrence-free at 8 weeks, those who received RBX2660 had significantly greater microbiome changes than those who received placebo. Most notably Bacteroides were significantly higher after RBX2660 treatment
  • These changes are consistent with the hypothesis that RBX2660 can restore a healthier microbiome in rCDI patients. Longer-term studies are needed to compare the durability of microbiome changes and recurrence-free rates

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