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receiving allogeneic stem cell transplantation: Loss of diversity is associated with use of systemic antibiotics and more pronounced in gastrointestinal graft - versus - host disease.»
Allogeneic stem cell transplantation to leukaemic patients, in which the patient's own diseased bone marrow is replaced by healthy donor material, is one of the best - established and most effective immunological therapies.