The Next Generation Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: To Transplant Bacteria or Virome
The use of human feces for treating diseases has a long history, but its rough form is not accepted in modern times. Therefore, new technologies for microbiota transplantation are developed, such as washed microbiota transplantation, bacteria spores treatment, and fecal virome transplantation.
You Yu, Weihong Wang, Faming Zhang
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Fulminant pseudomembranous enterocolitis caused by Klebsiella oxytoca: an autopsy case report
We describe a rare case of antibiotic‐associated fulminant pseudomembranous enterocolitis caused by Klebsiella oxytoca. A 79‐year‐old man with a history of antibiotic therapy was admitted to our emergency department, complaining of consciousness ...
Tatsunori Nagamura +14 more
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Background Clostridioides difficile is a bacterium that causes antibiotic-associated infectious diarrhea and pseudomembranous enterocolitis. The impact of C. difficile infection (CDI) in China has gained significant attention in recent years.
Yihong Cui +12 more
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Fecal Transplantation for —“All Stool May Not Be Created Equal”
Clostridium difficile is a gram-positive bacterium that is recognized as a causative organism of pseudomembranous enterocolitis. This infection has become a major public health challenge and is a source of considerable morbidity and mortality in those ...
Joseph C. Gathe MD, FACP, FIDSA +3 more
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Faecal microbiota transplantation : a regulatory hurdle? [PDF]
During faecal microbiota transplantation, stool from a healthy donor is transplanted to treat a variety of dysbiosis-associated gut diseases. Competent authorities are faced with the challenge to provide adequate regulation.
De Spiegeleer, Bart +3 more
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Hospitalizations and Deaths Associated with Clostridium difficile Infection, Finland, 1996–2004
To determine whether the rate of Clostridium difficile–associated disease (CDAD) and CDAD-related deaths were increasing in Finland, we analyzed registry data from 1996 through 2004.
Outi Lyytikäinen +6 more
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Fecal microbiota transplants: Emerging social representations in the English-language print media [PDF]
open access articleThis study investigates how English-language news sources have represented fecal microbiota transplants (FMT). FMT involves transferring stool from a healthy donor to a recipient with a dysfunctional intestinal flora in order to ...
Jaspal, Rusi +2 more
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Faecal Microbiota Transplantation plus selected use of antibiotics for severe-complicated Clostridium difficile infection: description of a protocol with high success rate [PDF]
Background Severe and severe/complicated Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) can result in ICU admission, sepsis, toxic megacolon and death. In this setting, colectomy is the standard of care but it is associated with a 50% mortality.
Cook, Gwen K. +6 more
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Clostridium difficile infection
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a significant and increasing medical problem, surpassing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as the most common hospital-onset or facility-associated infection, and a key element in the challenging battle ...
Stephen A. Geller +1 more
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Pseudomembranous enterocolitis cured with three intestinal microbiota transplantations
We present a unique case of a 82 years old women, with this newly described condition called “pseudomembranous enterocolitis cured with three transplants of intestinal microbi0ta (imt).” We evaluated the case of gaw, who had a perforates sigmoid ...
Álvaro Zamudio-Tiburcio +4 more
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