Human Skin and Gut Mycobiome and Bacteriome Comprehensive Registry

University Hospitals (UH)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers

Treatments: Other: Stool sample; Other: Skin swab; Other: Oral rinse; Other: Questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05196061

STUDY20191290

Details and patient eligibility

About

Bacterial and fungal microbiota will be different between individual body sites; however, particular microbiome profiles both whole-body and site-specific will be unique to volunteers with a given parameter such as medical diagnosis, diet, medications taken, geographical area; etc.

Full description

Specific aims:

1. Identify and characterize whole-body and site-specific microbiome profiles.
2. Identify phenotypic microbiome profiles unique to individual parameters such as demographics, medical diagnoses, diet; etc.
3. Perform bacterial-bacterial, fungal-fungal and bacterial-fungal correlation analysis to identify potential synergistic and antagonistic species within these unique profiles.

Enrollment: 5,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Capable of giving informed consent.
• Able and willing to complete all required specified study procedures

Exclusion criteria

• Antibiotic or antifungal use whether topical or systemic in the past 2 or 4 weeks, respectively.
• Unable and/or unwilling to complete all required study procedures.