Fecal microbiota transplant: Benefits and risks

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Weil, Ana A ^a,b   Hohmann, Elizabeth L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BODY MASS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANT; FECES MICROFLORA; GENE EXPRESSION; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84978327921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofv005     Document Type: Editorial

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