Initial experience with fecal microbiota transplantation in Clostridium difficile infection - transplant protocol and preliminary results

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 402-407

  Ponte, Ana ^a   Pinho, Rolando ^a   Mota, Margarida ^a   Silva, Joana ^a   Vieira, Nuno ^a   Oliveira, Rosa ^a   Pinto Pais, Teresa ^a   Fernandes, Carlos ^a   Ribeiro, Iolanda ^a   Rodrigues, Jaime ^a   Lopes, Paulo ^a   Teixeira, Tiago ^a   Carvalho, João ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR DE VILA NOVA DE GAIA ESPINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile infection; Fecal microbiota transplantation; Gut microbiota

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROCEDURES; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84945258951     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2015.3767/2015     Document Type: Article

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