Sentences with phrase «of faecal»

The Scoop on Poop - Maximizing the Diagnostic Yield of The Faecal Examination Stanley L. Marks, BVSc, PhD, DACVIM (Internal Medicine, Oncology), DACVN University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA, USA

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 microbiota.

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.

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.

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

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.

«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.

The scientists compared the effectiveness of this system on three sites with different degrees of faecal pollution of human and animal (cattle, pig or poultry) origin.

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

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

Given that «poo is a zoo», it seems surprising that the report on the use of faecal transplantation to combat...

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 researchers also collected faecal samples during times of extreme cold and analysed the concentration of faecal glucocorticoid (fGC) metabolite present.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.»

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

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 bottle.

Not exact matches

Levels of gut microbial diversity, faecal calprotectin (a marker of gut inflammation) and E coli colonisation were also examined.

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.

President Mahama said these when he commissioned the new Lavender Hill, an ultra modern facility which will end the historic practice of discharging faecal waste directly into the sea and the Korle lagoon.

Since 1902 faecal waste generated within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area has been directly discharged into the sea at portion of land famously called the Lavender Hill.

The technique, known as a faecal transplant, is thought to pass beneficial bacteria from the gut of a healthy individual to a sickly one.

Our ancestors» excrement reveals a rich record of humanity's movements, culture — and faecal worms

Dr Susanne Shultz, the senior author from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES) at Manchester, explains: «Faecal hormone measurements are easy to collect without disturbing the animals and provide a window into the chronic stress animals are experiencing.

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.

Barbara Hinney and her colleagues from the Institute for Parasitology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, screened 298 faecal samples taken from cats across Austria for single - cell intestinal parasites, so called enteric protozoa.

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.

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

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

As regulators struggle to classify faecal transplants, people are doing it themselves to ease symptoms of colitis, Parkinson's disease and even autism

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.

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.

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.

The team took faecal samples from 25 people with skin cancer and tested them for levels of Bacteroidales.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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