Screening of faecal microbiota transplant donors during the COVID-19 outbreak: suggestions for urgent updates from an international expert panel

Gianluca Ianiro¹, Benjamin H Mullish², Colleen R Kelly³, Harry Sokol⁴, Zain Kassam⁵, Siew C Ng⁶, Monika Fischer⁷, Jessica R Allegretti⁸, Luca Masucci⁹, Faming Zhang¹⁰, Josbert Keller¹¹, Maurizio Sanguinetti⁹, Samuel P Costello¹², Herbert Tilg¹³, Antonio Gasbarrini¹⁴, Giovanni Cammarota¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Digestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: gianluca.ianiro@unicatt.it.
² Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
⁴ Service de Gastroenterologie, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine, Paris, France; French Group of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, Paris, France; INRA, UMR1319 Micalis, AgroParisTech, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
⁵ Finch Therapeutics Group, Somerville, MA, USA.
⁶ Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
⁸ Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁹ Microbiology Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy.
¹⁰ Medical Center for Digestive Diseases, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
¹¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, Netherlands; Netherlands Donor Feces Bank, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
¹² Department of Gastroenterology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
¹³ Department of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
¹⁴ Digestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy.

PMID: 32192627
PMCID: PMC7104244
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-1253(20)30082-0

Screening of faecal microbiota transplant donors during the COVID-19 outbreak: suggestions for urgent updates from an international expert panel

Gianluca Ianiro et al. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 May.

. 2020 May;5(5):430-432.

doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(20)30082-0. Epub 2020 Mar 17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Digestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: gianluca.ianiro@unicatt.it.
² Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
⁴ Service de Gastroenterologie, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine, Paris, France; French Group of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, Paris, France; INRA, UMR1319 Micalis, AgroParisTech, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
⁵ Finch Therapeutics Group, Somerville, MA, USA.
⁶ Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
⁸ Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁹ Microbiology Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy.
¹⁰ Medical Center for Digestive Diseases, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
¹¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, Netherlands; Netherlands Donor Feces Bank, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
¹² Department of Gastroenterology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
¹³ Department of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
¹⁴ Digestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy.

PMID: 32192627
PMCID: PMC7104244
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-1253(20)30082-0

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Correction to Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 2020; 5: 430-31.
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 Jun;5(6):e5. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(20)30130-8. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020. PMID: 32416863 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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Screening faecal microbiota transplant donors for SARS-CoV-2 by molecular testing of stool is the safest way forward.
Green CA, Quraishi MN, Shabir S, Sharma N, Hansen R, Gaya DR, Hart AL, Loman NJ, Iqbal TH. Green CA, et al. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 Jun;5(6):531. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(20)30089-3. Epub 2020 Mar 30. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020. PMID: 32240618 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Screening FMT donors during the COVID-19 pandemic: a protocol for stool SARS-CoV-2 viral quantification.
Ng SC, Chan FKL, Chan PKS. Ng SC, et al. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 Jul;5(7):642-643. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(20)30124-2. Epub 2020 Apr 22. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020. PMID: 32333844 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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