A Study to Explore the Role of Gut Flora in COVID-19 Infection

June 2, 2025 updated by: ProgenaBiome

A Non-Interventional Pilot Study to Explore the Role of Gut Flora in COVID-19 Infection

This study seeks to determine whether the virus which causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, is shed in the stools of patients who are infected.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

In this study the stool of patients who are being treated for COVID-19 will be tested during treatment and then again following treatment to determine if the virus is shed in the stool during infection, afterwards, or both.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Estimated)

250

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Adults 18 and older

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Signed informed consent, demonstrating that the patient understands the procedures required for the study and the purpose of the study
  2. Male or female of 18 years of age or older
  3. Diagnosis of COVID-19 infection by RT- PCR within 1 week of Screening

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Refusal to sign informed consent form
  2. History of bariatric surgery, total colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis or proctocolectomy.
  3. Postoperative stoma, ostomy, or ileoanal pouch
  4. Treatment with total parenteral nutrition

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Intervention / Treatment
General Population
The general population will have their microbiome sequenced from stool samples provided.
Other: There is no intervention in this study
There is no intervention in this study

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Correlation of Microbiome to Disease via Relative Abundance Found in Microbiome Sequencing
Time Frame: One year
Relative abundance of bacterial classes within taxonomic phyla and, more broadly, within their domain will be analyzed by sequencing the gut microbiome. These data will then be categorized among specific gastrointestinal disease types.
One year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Validation of Sequencing Methods
Time Frame: One year
To validate the methods used to sequence samples
One year

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

ProgenaBiome

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sabine Hazan, MD, ProgenaBiome

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

April 16, 2020

Primary Completion (Estimated)

April 30, 2026

Study Completion (Estimated)

July 31, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 20, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 20, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

April 24, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimated)

June 5, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 2, 2025

Last Verified

June 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • PRG-041

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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