Fecal microbiota transplantation: Do we need harmonization?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1292-

  Galpérine, Tatiana ^a,b   Sokol, Harry ^b,c   Guery, Benoît ^b,d  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b French Group of Faecal Microbiota Transplantation   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ENEMA; VANCOMYCIN;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES MICROFLORA; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; METHODOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 85020049963     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix092     Document Type: Letter

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