4.3. Clinic Visits
Participants attended clinic visits at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI), Wollongong, Australia, between August and December 2017. Visits occurred at baseline; at week six, at the end of the first treatment arm, which coincided with the commenced of the second treatment arm; and at week 12, following the completion of the second treatment arm. At each clinic visit, participants provided a fasted blood sample via venepuncture by qualified phlebotomists into 10mL ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) tubes. Participants also provided a faecal swab using a “Gut explorer kit” from uBiome, San Francisco, USA (Details of the SXRG84 extract have been published previously [