[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"health-study-detail:100357008":3},{"organization":4,"outcomesModule":7,"designInfo":21,"detailedDescription":33,"studyPopulation":20,"armGroups":34,"interventions":50,"overallOfficials":55,"centralContacts":60,"locations":70,"responsibleParty":88,"collaborators":92,"id":104,"slug":20,"hasResults":105,"nctId":106,"briefTitle":107,"officialTitle":108,"acronym":109,"eligibilityCriteria":110,"healthyVolunteers":105,"sex":111,"minAge":112,"maxAge":113,"enrollmentInfo":114,"targetDuration":20,"studyType":117,"phases":118,"briefSummary":120,"conditions":121,"keywords":125,"overallStatus":72,"whyStopped":20,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":131,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":132,"startDateStruct":135,"completionDateStruct":137,"leadSponsor":139,"locationsCount":140},{"fullName":5,"class":6},"Karolinska Institutet","OTHER",{"primaryOutcomes":8,"secondaryOutcomes":13,"otherOutcomes":20},[9],{"measure":10,"description":11,"timeFrame":12},"IgE-associated allergic disease","Incidence of Immunoglubulin E (IgE)-associated allergic disease at 2 years of age in CS delivered infants, compared with non-treated CS-delivered infants and vaginally delivered controls.\n\nSkin-puncture tests will be performed at infant age 6 months, 12 months and child age 24 months.","Two years",[14,17],{"measure":15,"description":16,"timeFrame":12},"Immunological programming","Immunological programming will be assessd via blood cell count from blood tests at 6,12 nad 24 months in infants delivered via scheduled CS, with or without exposure to the maternal vaginal and fecal microbiota in comparison to infants born vaginally.",{"measure":18,"description":19,"timeFrame":12},"Development of the microbiota","To compare microbial composition between groups, using shotgun metagenomics.",null,{"allocation":22,"interventionModel":23,"interventionModelDescription":24,"primaryPurpose":25,"observationalModel":20,"timePerspective":20,"maskingInfo":26},"RANDOMIZED","PARALLEL","In this RCT, 330 infants of healthy mothers (age 18 to 40 years) with uncomplicated pregnancies will be included and the infants followed primarily for two years. The number has been increased to cover for potential drop-outs.","TREATMENT",{"masking":27,"maskingDescription":28,"whoMasked":29},"TRIPLE","Mothers who give birth by CS will be randomized to expose their neonate to samples of their vaginal and fecal microbiome after birth or to placebo.",[30,31,32],"PARTICIPANT","INVESTIGATOR","OUTCOMES_ASSESSOR","The primary outcome is to examine if exposure to the maternal vaginal and fecal microbiota directly after birth will halfen the cumulative incidence of Immunoglubulin E (IgE)-associated allergic disease at 2 years of age in CS delivered infants, compared with non-treated CS-delivered infants.\n\nThe secondary outcomes are to compare the community structure of microbes from mothers and their infants and immunological programming of infants delivered via scheduled CS, with or without exposure to the maternal vaginal and fecal microbiota, from birth until two years of age. The primary and secondary outcomes will also be compared with a reference group of vaginally delivered infants. Sex differences in the incidence and prevalence of allergic diseases have been described. The anticipated benefit of the intervention can be implemented in clinical practice regardless of sex, so that improved conditions for good health are created.",[35,39,45],{"label":36,"type":37,"description":38,"interventionNames":20},"vaginally delivered","NO_INTERVENTION","A non-randomized reference group of vaginally delivered infants.",{"label":40,"type":41,"description":42,"interventionNames":43},"CS intervention","ACTIVE_COMPARATOR","A piece of gauze soaked with saline (0.9%) will be placed in the birth canal 2 hours before the CS by the study midwife, using sterile glows. Before the CS procedure begins, the gauze will be removed from the vagina and then immediately \"contaminated\" by a swab carrying maternal fecal microbiota. The swab is contaminated by introducing it 3 cm into the anal canal and by rotating it for 10-20 s.\n\nImmediately after birth, the study midwife will swab the neonate with the gauze in multiple body sites by a standardized manner and then swab maternal breasts and chest skin. The neonate will then be placed on the maternal chest to initiate breast-feeding.",[44],"Other: Maternal microbiota",{"label":46,"type":47,"description":48,"interventionNames":49},"CS placebo","PLACEBO_COMPARATOR","See above - the gauze will be exchanged to a clean gauze (soaked with saline). Immediately after birth, the study midwife will swab the neonate with the gauze in multiple body sites by a standardized manner and then swab maternal breasts and chest skin. The neonate will then be placed on the maternal chest to initiate breast-feeding.",[44],[51],{"type":6,"name":52,"description":53,"armGroupLabels":54,"otherNames":20},"Maternal microbiota","See arm descriptions",[40,46],[56],{"name":57,"affiliation":58,"role":59},"Susanne Nylén, PhD","Dept Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm","STUDY_CHAIR",[61,66],{"name":62,"role":63,"phone":64,"phoneExt":20,"email":65},"Lars G Engstrand, MD","CONTACT","+46706780318","lars.engstrand@ki.se",{"name":67,"role":63,"phone":68,"phoneExt":20,"email":69},"Marica C Hamsten, MSc","+46675555872","marica.hamsten@ki.se",[71],{"facility":5,"status":72,"city":73,"state":74,"zip":75,"country":76,"countryCode":77,"cosmosGeoPoint":78,"geoPoint":83,"contacts":84},"RECRUITING","Stockholm","Stockholm County","171 65","Sweden","SE",{"type":79,"coordinates":80},"Point",[81,82],18.06871,59.32938,{"lat":82,"lon":81},[85],{"name":67,"role":63,"phone":86,"phoneExt":20,"email":87},"+46765555872","marica.hamsten@k.se",{"type":89,"investigatorFullName":90,"investigatorTitle":91,"investigatorAffiliation":5,"oldNameTitle":20,"oldOrganization":20},"PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR","Lars Engstrand","professor, MD",[93,95,98,100,102],{"name":94,"class":6},"Uppsala University",{"name":96,"class":97},"Linkoeping University","OTHER_GOV",{"name":99,"class":6},"Umeå University",{"name":101,"class":6},"Örebro University, Sweden",{"name":103,"class":6},"Jonkoping University","100357008",false,"NCT03928431","Restoration of Microbiota in Neonates","Restoration of Microbiota in Neonates - a Randomized Controlled Trial","RoMaNs","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Infants of healthy mothers with uncomplicated pregnancies at term, mothers of any ethnic or social background that can speak, read, and understand Swedish to the extent that they can consent in Swedish. An additional inclusion criterion for mothers in the CS groups is vaginal pH ≤ 4 at the time of birth.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Infants of mothers with pre-eclampsia or complicated pregnancies, mothers \\\u003C18 years or \\>40 years of age, genital herpes simplex, genital warts, HIV, Hepatitis B or complications during delivery, infants delivered prior to 37 weeks of gestation. Additional exclusion criteria for mothers in the CS group: Mothers positive to Group B Streptococcus, Group A Streptococcus, bacterial vaginosis, vaginal pH \\> 4 at the time of birth. Mothers with fecal samples positive for Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter or Yersinia.","ALL","5 Minutes","15 Minutes",{"count":115,"type":116},300,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[119],"NA","The aim of the study is to examine the effect of exposure of cesarean section (CS) delivered neonates to a natural condition of birth, i.e. to the microbiota of the birth canal, on the acquisition of microbial genes during development of the microbiome at multiple body sites, immune system maturation and allergy risk in childhood",[122,123,124],"Atopic Dermatitis","Atopic Asthma","Immunologic Activity Alteration",[126,127,128,129,130],"microbiota","cesarean section","vaginal delivery","allergy","immunological programming","2025-06-26",{"date":133,"type":134},"2025-07-01","ACTUAL",{"date":136,"type":134},"2019-01-01",{"date":138,"type":116},"2028-12-31",{"name":5,"class":6},1]