Frozen encapsulated stool in recurrent clostridium difficile: Exploring the role of pills in the treatment hierarchy of fecal microbiota transplant nonresponders

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 600-601

  Stollman, Neil ^a   Smith, Mark ^b,c,d   Giovanelli, Andrea ^a   Mendolia, Gina ^c   Burns, Laura ^c   Didyk, Eliska ^b,c   Burgess, James ^c   Noh, Andrew ^c   Edelstein, Carolyn ^c   Alm, Eric ^b,c,d   Kassam, Zain ^b,c  

^a East Bay Center for Digestive Health   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c OpenBiome   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALSALAZIDE; FIDAXOMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; MICROCAPSULE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLONOSCOPY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FROZEN ENCAPSULATED STOOL; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VERY ELDERLY; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; COMPLICATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; FREEZING; IRRITABLE COLON; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCAPSULE; MICROFLORA; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROCEDURES; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; CAPSULES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MICROBIOTA; RECURRENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84927750269     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2015.81     Document Type: Letter

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