Use of standard donors in fecal microbiotal transplants

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 68-69

  Wang, Xiao Jing ^a   Kraft, Colleen S ^a   Dhere, Tanvi ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DONOR; DONOR SELECTION; FECAL MICROBIOTAL TRANSPLANT; FECES MICROFLORA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT INFECTION; SCREENING TEST; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROCEDURES; UNRELATED DONORS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION; UNRELATED DONORS;

EID: 84925023385     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: 15418243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000227     Document Type: Letter

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