Sentences with phrase «in faecal»

Dr Oliver Deusch (WALTHAM, UK) explained that diet is associated not only with structural but also functional differences in the faecal microbiome of kittens.

The study compared the main different ways of diagnosing C - Diff, including the two «gold - standard» methods: a cytotoxin assay, which looks for the presence of C - Diff toxin in faecal samples; and cytotoxigenic culture, which looks to see if there are bugs present in faecal samples that could possibly produce C - Diff toxin.

The findings mean that tests which detect the presence of toxin in faecal samples (the cytotoxin assay) are the most reliable indicators of true C - Diff.

Typically, about 3 per cent of the calories consumed are excreted in the faecal matter, he says.

Not exact matches

In a recent study of 153 children living in a poor community on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, (1) in which we looked at the preparation and administration of weaning foods in the first year of life, an important vehicle of faecal contamination was identified: the baby bottlIn a recent study of 153 children living in a poor community on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, (1) in which we looked at the preparation and administration of weaning foods in the first year of life, an important vehicle of faecal contamination was identified: the baby bottlin a poor community on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, (1) in which we looked at the preparation and administration of weaning foods in the first year of life, an important vehicle of faecal contamination was identified: the baby bottlin which we looked at the preparation and administration of weaning foods in the first year of life, an important vehicle of faecal contamination was identified: the baby bottlin the first year of life, an important vehicle of faecal contamination was identified: the baby bottle.

However, if served in baby bottles, a high frequency (31 per cent of 74 samples) were contaminated with faecal germs, most of them with colony counts of 10,000 or more per millilitre.

The virus was found when Bas Dutilh of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues were trawling through data from faecal samples collected for a 2010 study looking at the microbial gut communities of twins.

When the team looked for it in data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.

When the researchers expanded their search to include all the data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal samples.

«Currently, we have ongoing clinical trials where we are investigating the effect of faecal microbiota transplantation in treating irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease.»

Reetta Satokari's group has an interesting ongoing project where they look at the effects of faecal microbiota transplant on antibiotic resistance genes detected in the patient's microbiota.

Reetta Satokari's group and the hospital clinicians have in collaboration created a unique «faecal bank» where the tested transplants are kept.

And we more or less get this additional information for free because the vampire bat's DNA is found in the DNA that we extract from blood meal and faecal samples,» says Kristine Bohmann, who adds:

This article appeared in print under the headline «Stomach this... faecal transplants reveal gut bug menace»

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.

A single treatment using an optimized, targeted form of faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) produces sustained clinical and cognitive improvements, according to the results of a long - term follow - up of patients with liver cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy (HE) who had participated in a short - term study.

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.

«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.

Liver cirrhosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with complications such as HE resulting in recurrent emergency hospitalizations, irreversible brain injury, and a poor prognosis.2 - 5 There is some evidence that HE patients have a reduced relative abundance of certain beneficial gut microbiota (e.g. Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae) and an enrichment of potentially pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae ¬ - a microbial profile that has been linked to cognitive impairment and systemic inflammation in cirrhotic patients with HE.1 Faecal microbiota transplants have been used successfully to correct dysbiotic conditions such as recurrent Clostridium difficile and ulcerative colitis,6 - 8 and a preliminary report suggested that FMT may be promising in the management of HE.9

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

Balazs and his colleagues report in the current issue of the Marine Pollution Bulletin how 300 pellets a day were washing up on Kualoa Beach: «A general review of data for tidal cycles, moon phases, wind speed and direction, and surf conditions failed to identify any consistent correlation with the erratic fluctuations in daily faecal counts.»

The scientist Prof. Rupert Palme of the Institute of Medical Biochemistry at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, was responsible for the biochemical analysis of the faecal samples in the study.

The team used genetic information collected on field from tiger faecal samples, to understand how landscape features — like roads and agriculture — impact tiger movement in Central India, a global high priority tiger conservation landscape.

First, the length of faecal pieces was five times as long as the diameter of the rectum in each of the animals.

In addition, they collected faecal samples of the tamarins that contained seeds.

Faecal transplants reveal how gut bacteria have an important role to play in the onset and treatment of a form of malnutrition called kwashiorkor

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.

«The faecal transplant is fairly disgusting but it works really well,» says Emma Allen - Vercoe at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

Faecal pollution is increasingly more common in rivers and water reserves.

Spanish scientists have developed a new piece of software to predict the source of faecal pollution in seas, reservoirs and rivers.

This information allows the source of the sample to be determined, even in complex cases in which the faecal pollution is very diluted or deteriorated,» Blanch highlights.

Some promise to extract the mysteries of our microbiomes from faecal matter in the post.

«Using this data, the software determines the relevant indicators, which when analysed in water samples with an unknown source of faecal pollution, would allow its source to be determined,» he adds.

They are starved for up to 10 hours to reduce the faecal volume in their bodies, then caught, hung upside down and dunked in an electric bath to knock them out before their throats are slit.

Faecal samples revealed that ipilimumab caused a decrease in two types of bacteria, Bacteroidales and Burkholderiales, in the gut.

So we might expect the prevalence of faecal oral parasites such as whipworm and roundworm to drop in Roman times — yet we find a gradual increase.

Molecular diversity of the faecal microbiota of Toy Poodles in Japan.Omatsu T. Journal of Veterinary Medicine

14 April 2018, Paris, France: A single treatment using an optimized, targeted form of faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) produces sustained clinical and cognitive improvements, according to the results of a long - term follow - up of patients with liver cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy (HE) who had participated in a short - term study.

Let's face it — you don't want an accumulation of rotting faecal matter loitering in your digestive system for any longer than is absolutely necessary so fiber is all but essential for keeping your digestive system in tip - top health.

At this point, a feeling of fullness and the need to eliminate faecal matter make that built in toilet seem ingenious!

The effect of vitamin D on intestinal inflammation and faecal microbiota in patients with ulcerative colitis

The specific effects of food structure (increased satiety, reduced transit time and glycaemic response), fibre (improved faecal bulking and satiety, viscosity and SCFA production, and / or reduced glycaemic response) and Mg (better glycaemic homeostasis through increased insulin secretion), together with the antioxidant and anti-carcinogenic properties of numerous bioactive compounds, especially those in the bran and germ (minerals, trace elements, vitamins, carotenoids, polyphenols and alkylresorcinols), are today well - recognised mechanisms in this protection.

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.

The result can be proctitis if the wound comes in contact with faecal residues.

METHODS — Single stool faecal calprotectin concentrations were compared with the four day faecal excretion of 111In labelled white cells in 47 patients taking NSAIDs.

In contrast to these responses to RS, there was little evidence that the high NSP diet resulted in major alterations in the composition of the faecal microbiotIn contrast to these responses to RS, there was little evidence that the high NSP diet resulted in major alterations in the composition of the faecal microbiotin major alterations in the composition of the faecal microbiotin the composition of the faecal microbiota.

As a result of the untreated C - Diff (finally cured with faecal transplant) her body over produced antibodies to fight the C - Diff and now those antibodies are pooling in her ankle and knee as they are the weakened spots on her body due to sprains and surgeries (skier).

The third week started with Google updating translate for Android, with 14 different languages, news reached One Mobile Ring that one in six mobile phones in Britain is contaminated with faecal matter.

Lungworm infections are uncommon and may not be normally considered in the differential diagnosis, but may occur; diagnosis with faecal floatation or a bronchial mucus smear are diagnostic methods of choice, x-rays and bronchoscopy are also useful but you should discuss with your Veterinarian.