Sentences with phrase «by faecal»

«In certain cases, people require reseeding of their intestines with healthy bacteria by faecal transplant — a process where intestinal bacteria is transplanted to a sick person from a healthy individual,» Professor Belz said.

Not exact matches

For the parasite monitoring programme run by the Swiss small ruminant advisory and health service (Schweizerischer Beratungs - und Gesundheitsdienst für Kleinwiederkäuer, BGK), we examine approximately 7000 faecal samples from sheep, goats, deer and South American camelids annually.

An analysis of faecal samples can be used to show that the additional hormone was metabolised by the body.

The internationally recognised method of measuring faecal hormone metabolites was developed by senior author Palme.

Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.

She explained that phages outnumber their bacterial prey by a factor of 10 to 1, and that they have been proposed as the agents of change in recipients of faecal microbiota transplantations used to treat resistant or recurring bowel disease.

But Rita Colwell of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues report this week that of faecal samples taken from 81 people in November 2010, 17 had a different V. cholerae that does not make the deadly toxin made by the El Tor strain.

The multi-centre study, carried out by researchers at the University of Leeds, in partnership with colleagues from the University of Oxford, University College London and St George's, University of London, tested more than 12,000 faecal samples from hospital patients to establish the best method for diagnosing C - Diff.

The research team found that patients with faecal samples positive by the cytotoxin assay were almost twice as likely to die within 30 days as those patients with samples only positive by the alternative «gold - standard» method (16.6 % versus 9.7 %).

The researchers measured the stress levels of the animals by analysing the stress hormone metabolites (glucocorticoid metabolites GCM) in the collected faecal samples.

To do this, researchers separated bacteria from faecal material and extracted and analysed bacterial metabolites by next - generation mass spectrometry.

Faecal pellets show that the rabbits feed on the leaves of alpine eucalyptus trees, also known as snow gums, when the grass is buried by snow in winter.

A few months ago we showed that metagenomics allowed us to identify an E. coli outbreak strains from faecal samples and a few weeks ago a similar approach was shown by another group to deliver a leprosy genome from historical material.»

The South African scientists, headed by Prof. Wolfgang Preiser, tested faecal material from a total of 62 bats from 13 different species for coronaviruses.

Even those that think to be following a so - called «good» diet will be surprised by the amount of faecal waste that has accumulated over the decades in their colon.

It is proposed that altered intestinal permeability allows the mucosa to be exposed to bacterial degradation products or other toxins and together with reduced chemotaxic response and altered neutrophil function due to NSAID's, this series of events leads to bacterial invasion of the mucosa which is evident by the techniques of 111Indium leucocyte scans and faecal collections.

Dietary intake and faecal excretion of carbohydrate by Australians: Importance of achieving stool weights greater than 150 g to improve faecal markers relevant to colon cancer risk.

Therefore to answer the second part of this question — which presumably refers to the interferon gamma (IFNγ) gene test offered by AnimalLabs, Croatia, and Genimal Biotechnologies in France — it is my view that it would be much wiser to test cats for FCoV antibodies and (unless antibody negative) do monthly faecal RT - PCR tests in order to eliminate FCoV from breeding cats and so prevent cats from encountering FCoV, rather than waste money on FIP DNA tests which will give you very little practical information.

Depending on the severity of the stasis your bunny can be treated as an outpatient, may be hospitalised and given special medications to help the motility of their guts or may even require surgery to remove a physical obstruction caused by impacted food, faecal material or even fur balls.

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