Sentences with phrase «as bacteriotherapy»

Fecal transplant, otherwise known as bacteriotherapy, is the method of introducing microbes from healthy donors into the gastrointestinal (GI) tract of people suffering from severe stomach problems, such as recurrent C. difficile colitis.

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MDSINE is the first tool we've developed under the new BWH Precision Medicine Initiative, and we're releasing it as open source software in that hope that it will help to advance the bacteriotherapy field,» said senior author Georg Gerber, MD, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor in Computational Pathology at BWH and Co-Director of the Massachusetts Host - Microbiome Center at BWH.

«Bacteriotherapy is the use of live bacteria as therapy to treat a medical condition, like cancer.»

Fecal Transplant FMT, also known as fecal microbiota transplant, human probiotic infusion, bacteriotherapy, and fecal transplant, is a powerful infusion of healthy colon flora treatment which has been used to treat c diff, aka C difficile infections, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, autoimmune disease, dysbiotic gut flora as well as other conditions.