Fecal microbiota transplantation: Past, present and future

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-84

  Aroniadis, Olga C ^a   Brandt, Lawrence J ^a  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile infection; fecal microbiota transplantation; inflammatory bowel disease; irritable bowel syndrome; obesity

Indexed keywords

FIDAXOMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

AUTISM; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON FLORA; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENTERITIS; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MYOCLONUS DYSTONIA; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PARKINSON DISEASE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONSTIPATION; DONOR SELECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FECES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OBESITY; RECURRENCE;

EID: 84871638124     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: 15317056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOG.0b013e32835a4b3e     Document Type: Review

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