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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT02212002
Date of registration: 06/08/2014
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Bologna Policlinico S. Orsola Malpighi
Public title: Effect of Intrapartum Antibiotic Prophylaxis (IAP) on the Development of the Neonatal Gut Microbiota. MICROBIOTA-SO
Scientific title: Effect of Intrapartum Antibiotic Prophylaxis (IAP) on the Development of Neonatal Gut Microbiota
Date of first enrolment: May 2013
Target sample size: 84
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02212002
Study type:  Observational
Study design:  Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Italy
Contacts
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Term newborns (gestational age = 37 weeks), vaginally delivered newborn

- birth weight adequate for gestational age

- mothers screened for GBS at 35-37 weeks gestation

- Obtained written parental consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Preterm or small/large for gestational age infants;

- Infants born by caesarean section;

- Infants admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit;

- Infants with major congenital malformations;

- Infants who received any antibiotic treatment after birth;

- Signs of infection and/or any serious clinical conditions that contraindicate the
participation in the study;

- Infants whose mother had received any antibiotic in the 4 weeks before delivery;

- maternal IAP performed for reasons other than GBS positivity (i.e. prolonged rupture
of membranes in GBS-negative women);

- inadequate maternal IAP;

- maternal IAP performed with antibiotics other than ampicillin, such as erythromycin



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: 6 Days
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Microbiota
Intervention(s)
Drug: IAP
Primary Outcome(s)
Faecal bacterial count [Time Frame: One month]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
12/2013/U/Oss
SO-2014-MICROBIOTA
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
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