About this trial
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.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Neonate has anticipated NICU length of stay > 7 days
Neonate ≥25 weeks gestation
At least one parent/adult provider not colonized with S. aureus (as determined by baseline screening)
Neonate is not colonized with S. aureus on baseline screening
Disqualifiers
Neonate has had a prior clinical or surveillance culture grow S. aureus
Neonate is a ward of the State
Neonate with antenatal suspicion for immunodeficiency (e.g. sibling with known immunodeficiency, genetic syndrome with known associated immunodeficiency)
Neonate cannot have nasal swabs collected (due to anatomic or other clinical intervention, including nasal packing)
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Nasal Microbiota Transplant (NMT)
- Placebo