Sentences with word «bacteriotherapy»

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)-- also known as fecal bacteriotherapy, among other names — is an effort to calm a troubled bowel by reintroducing the vast diversity of collaborative bowel inhabitants after the usual mix has been disturbed.

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.

RestorFlora is the first probiotic bacteriotherapy product that has combined three of the world's most well studied and widely used probiotic strains — Saccharomyces Boulardii, Bacillus Subtilis HU58 and Bacillus Clausii.

Our results have given us insights into new bacteriotherapies for C. difficile infection and inflammatory bowel disease, and moreover suggest general strategies for developing these therapies for many other diseases,» said Vanni Bucci, PhD, first author of the study and an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

Microbiome Labs was originally established as Physicians Exclusive in 2013 as an organization focused on providing probiotic bacteriotherapy.

In the future, the promising bacterial species will be isolated and characterised for the design of bacteriotherapy products.

«Advanced computational methods like MDSINE are essential for understanding how to design and evaluate bacteriotherapies or «bugs as drugs,» and to tailor them to individual patients since everyone's microbiome is different.

There's a lot of exciting new evidence that giving patients bacteriotherapies, or cocktails of bacteria, may be effective in treating or preventing a variety of major diseases including infections, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and cancer.

Bacteriotherapy by way of fecal transplantation can be used to treat recurrent CDAD, which is thought to reestablish the normal colonic microflora.

The striking similarity of the recipient's and donor's intestinal microbiota following after bacteriotherapy suggests that the donor's bacteria quickly occupied their requisite niches resulting in restoration of both the structure and function of the microbial communities present.

Gionchetti P. et al; Oral Bacteriotherapy as Maintaining Treatment in Patients with Chronic Pouchitis: a Double - Blind, Placebo - Controlled Trial; Gastroenterology; 2000; 119:305 - 309

Some experts speculate that dogs may also perform their own form of fecal bacteriotherapy — by seeking and ingesting fecal matter (called coprophagy).

«Using a natural antibiotic produced by the skin microbiome is superior to current pharmaceutical approaches because the bacteriotherapy does not kill protective bacteria strains,» said Nakatsuji.

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.

«Salmonella strains have a natural preference for infiltrating and replicating within the cancer cells of a tumor, making the bacteria an ideal candidate for bacteriotherapy,» said Robert Kazmierczak, a senior investigator at the Cancer Research Center and a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Biological Sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science.

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

Augmenting the microbiome through fecal transplants (bacteriotherapy) is already a validated treatment for C. difficile colitis, a complication that can arise from antibiotic therapy.

Fecal bacteriotherapy («stool transplant») can be effective in treating recurrent Clostridium difficile infection, but concerns of donor infection transmission and patient acceptance limit its use.

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.

One that is very interesting, if not a little gross, is fecal bacteriotherapy — also known as a «fecal transplant.»