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Record W4407284972 · doi:10.1093/jcag/gwae059.071

A71 SUBGROUP ANALYSIS OF CANADIAN PARTICIPANTS IN PUNCH CD3-OLS: A PHASE 3 OPEN-LABEL CLINICALSTUDY TO EVALUATE THE SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF FECAL MICROBIOTA, LIVE-JSLM, IN ADULTS WITH RECURRENT <i>CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE</i> INFECTION

2025· article· en· W4407284972 on OpenAlexaffabout
Theodore S. Steiner, Thomas Louie, David Kao, Dan Smyth, Beth Guthmueller, Timothy Jason, Sean P. Elliott, Saurabh Srivastava, Christine Lee

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicClostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
Canadian institutionsDalhousie UniversityUniversity of VictoriaUniversity of AlbertaUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFecesSubgroup analysisOpen labelMedicineDemographyPsychologyBiologyInternal medicineMicrobiologyAdverse effectConfidence interval

Abstract

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Abstract Background Fecal microbiota, live-jslm (RBL) is the first United States (US) Food and Drug Administration-approved, single-dose, microbiota-based live biotherapeutic product to prevent recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI) in adults following standard-of-care (SOC) antibiotics. In a prospective phase 3, open-label study (PUNCH CD3-OLS; NCT03931941) conducted in the US and Canada, RBL demonstrated a 73.8% treatment success rate at 8 weeks and a 91.0% sustained clinical response rate through 6 months. Aims To evaluate the safety and efficacy of RBL in Canadian participants in PUNCH CD3-OLS. Methods PUNCH CD3-OLS participants were aged ≥18 years with documented rCDI and confirmed use of SOC antibiotics. Participants with comorbidities including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and immunocompromising conditions due to disease and/or medications were permitted to enroll. A single dose of RBL was rectally administered within 24–72h of SOC antibiotic completion. The primary endpoint was the number of participants with RBL- or administration-related treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs). Secondary endpoints included treatment success at 8 weeks and sustained clinical response at 6 months after RBL administration. Results Of the 697 participants who received RBL, 117 were Canadian. Participants in Canada were mostly White (91.5%) and female (70.1%) with a mean (SD) age of 61.3 years (17.38). Twenty participants (17.1%) were hospitalized for their qualifying episode. Participants’ medical histories included IBD (unspecified, [1.7%, n=2]; Crohn’s disease, [6.0%, n=7]; ulcerative colitis, [5.1%, n=6]), IBS (6.8%, n=8), and mild-to-moderate immunocompromising conditions (7.7 %, n=9). TEAEs through 8 weeks after RBL administration were reported by 59.8% of participants; most were gastrointestinal (48.7%, n=57) and mild-to-moderate in severity. Serious TEAEs were reported by 5.1% of participants within 8 weeks of RBL administration. At 8 weeks, 75.2% of participants (88/117) had treatment success; of those, 90.9% (80/88) had a sustained clinical response at 6 months. Demographics, safety, and efficacy outcomes were similar for participants in the US. Conclusions RBL was safe and efficacious for preventing rCDI among Canadian participants from PUNCH CD3-OLS, the largest study of a live microbiota-based therapy conducted to date. Funding Agencies NRCFerring Pharmaceuticals

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.771
Threshold uncertainty score0.456

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.005
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.354
Teacher spread0.317 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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