The burden of clostridium difficile infection in patients with liver cirrhosis [PDF]
, 2019 Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) has registered a dramatically increasing incidence in the general population over the past decades. Nowadays, Clostridium Difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in Europe and North America ...
Dumitru, Andrada +5 more
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Impact of amoxicillin-clavulanate followed by autologous fecal microbiota transplantation on fecal microbiome structure and metabolic potential [PDF]
, 2018 The spread of multidrug resistance among pathogenic organisms threatens the efficacy of antimicrobial treatment options. The human gut serves as a reservoir for many drug-resistant organisms and their resistance genes, and perturbation of the gut ...
Bulow, Christopher +13 more
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Towards microbiome transplant as a therapy for periodontitis: an exploratory study of periodontitis microbial signature contrasted by oral health, caries and edentulism [PDF]
, 2015 published_or_final_versio
Alex E. Pozhitkov +5 more
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Prebiotics, faecal transplants and microbial network units to stimulate biodiversity of the human gut microbiome [PDF]
, 2013 Accumulating evidence demonstrates the intimate association between human hosts and the gut microbiome. Starting at birth, the sterile gut of the newborn acquires a diverse spectrum of microbes, needed for immunological priming.
Biasucci G. +7 more
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Fecal microbiota transplants: Emerging social representations in the English-language print media [PDF]
, 2019 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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Microbial symbionts : a resource for the management of insect-related problems [PDF]
, 2011 Microorganisms establish with their animal hosts close interactions. They are involved in many aspects of the host life, physiology and evolution, including nutrition, reproduction, immune homeostasis, defence and speciation.
Alma, Alberto +10 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]
, 2015 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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Synthetic microbial ecosystems : an exciting tool to understand and apply microbial communities [PDF]
, 2013 Many microbial ecologists have described the composition of microbial communities in a plenitude of environments, which has greatly improved our basic understanding of microorganisms and ecosystems.
Boon, Nico +4 more
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Recipe for IBD: can we use food to control inflammatory bowel disease? [PDF]
, 2017 The mucosal immune system and the microbiota in the intestinal tract have recently been shown to play a key role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Both of these can be influenced by food.
Gagliani, Nicola +3 more
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Molecular estimation of alteration in intestinal microbial composition in Hashimoto's thyroiditis patients [PDF]
, 2017 The gut microbiota has a crucial effect on human health and physiology. Hypothyroid Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is an autoimmune disorder manifested with environmental and genetic factors.
Guo, Hui +9 more
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