Fecal microbiota transplant in severe and severe-complicated Clostridium difficile: A promising treatment approach

Gut microbes

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 289-302

  Fischer, Monika ^a   Sipe, Brian ^b   Cheng, Yao Wen ^a   Phelps, Emmalee ^a   Rogers, Nicholas ^a   Sagi, Sashidhar ^a   Bohm, Matthew ^a   Xu, Huiping ^a   Kassam, Zain ^c,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Private Practice   (United States)

^c Open Biome   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecal microbiota transplant; FMT; fulminant C. difficile; pseudomembranes; severe and complicated C. difficile infection; severe C. difficile infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREEZING; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; COLECTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREEZING; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 85009821218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2016.1273998     Document Type: Article

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