Predictors of failure after single faecal microbiota transplantation in patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection: results from a 3-year, single-centre cohort study

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 337.e1-337.e3

  Ianiro, G ^a   Valerio, L ^b   Masucci, L ^a   Pecere, S ^a   Bibbo S ^a   Quaranta, G ^a   Posteraro, B ^a   Curro D ^a   Sanguinetti, M ^a   Gasbarrini, A ^a   Cammarota, G ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bowel preparation; Clostridium difficile infection; Colonoscopy; Faecal microbiota transplantation; Faecal transfer; Faecal transplant; Gastrointestinal infections; Microbiome; Microbiota

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONOSCOPY; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; COLONOSCOPY; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 85012922579     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.12.025     Document Type: Article

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