Background The microorganisms populating the gastro-intestinal tract of vertebrates, collectively known as microbiota, play an essential role in digestion and are important in regulating the immune response. Whereas the ...

© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has an incomparable efficacy to treat recurrent Clostridium difficile infection, with near 90% of success. We report a 57 ...

Background and aims Fecal microbial transplantation (FMT), a treatment for certain gastrointestinal conditions associated with dysbiosis in people, is also empirically employed in horses with colitis. This study used ...

Gastrointestinal (GI) involvement is an early manifestation in systemic sclerosis (SSc), affecting more than 90% of patients, and severe GI disease is a marker of poor prognosis and mortality. Recent studies have hypothesized ...

El síndrome de intestino irritable (SII) es un trastorno funcional crónico del tracto intestinal, caracterizado por dolor abdominal asociado a cambios en el hábito defecatorio, lo que genera un estado incapacitante para ...

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A criptosporidiose, uma das principais causas de diarreia infantil, é causada por parasitos do Filo Apicomplexa pertencentes ao gênero Cryptosporidium. A falta de medicamentos eficazes está motivando pesquisas para desenvolver ...

Studies comparing gut microbiota profiles of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients have shown several changes in microbiota composition, with marked reduction of local biodiversity relative to that of healthy controls. ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), as an emerging therapy, can be used to treat microbiota related diseases. Progresses in donor screening, washed microbiota preparation, microbiota delivery routes, clinical ...