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Five Things You Didn't Know About Antibiotics and Your Brain
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A Guide for Ex Vivo Handling and Storage of Stool Samples Intended for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation
Owing to the growing recognition of the gut microbiota as a main partner of human health, we are expecting that the number of indications for fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) will increase. Thus, there is an urgent need for standardization of the ...
bags are stored at a controlled temperature of 20 ± 2 °C for a maximum of 60 days,
Frontiers | How to Apply FMT More Effectively, Conveniently and Flexible – A Comparison of FMT Methods
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Do-it-yourself FMT Capsules
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Instructions to prepare FMT (fecal microbiota transplantation) capsules with disposable material without laboratory equipment.
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Potential Pharmaceutical Applications of Quercetin in Cardiovascular Diseases
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Gut-sparing treatment of urinary tract infection in patients at high risk of Clostridium difficile infection
"patients in treatment of RCDI and regularly encountered post-FMT re-infections with C. difficile following uncomplicated UTI treatment with all commonly used oral antibiotics, including quinolones, penicillins, cephalosporins, macrolides, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, nitrofurantoin and fosfomycin"
patients in treatment of RCDI and regularly encountered post-FMT re-infections with C. difficile following uncomplicated UTI treatment with all commonly used oral antibiotics, including quinolones, penicillins, cephalosporins, macrolides, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, nitrofurantoin and fosfomycin
she had not had a UTI episode for over 3 months
regimen of methenamine hippurate and ascorbic acid
positive test for C. difficile
while on vancomycin
discharged after 3 days of treatment with amikacin
Amoxicillin for Urinary Tract Infection Reviews - Drugs.com
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Urinary tract infections: microbial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions and new treatment strategies
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common, recurrent infections that can be mild to life-threatening. The continued emergence of antibiotic resistance, together with our increasing understanding of the detrimental effects conferred by broad-spectrum ...
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The brave new world of DIY faecal transplant
A growing number of sick people are funnelling other people's faeces into their bowels - with or without help from doctors.
website, The Power of Poop, is full of tips and personal stories to help people with their first at-home faecal transplant
A bigger concern is that they are using untested stool. At Brandt's clinic, donors are screened for a long list of infectious diseases, including HIV and hepatitis, and are subjected to a battery of questions about their lifestyle and habits. Donors with allergies and heart disease are excluded, as well those who have recently taken antibiotics.
Using Probiotics After Antibiotics
A new study out of Israel suggests probiotics might not be the most helpful way to return your gut microbiome back to normal during or after going on antibiotics.
incorporate prebiotics in your regimen.
prebiotics are food for probiotics
Fiber-rich foods like fruits, vegetables, cereals are all prebiotics. Specifically, artichokes, asparagus, bananas, berries, chicory, garlic, green vegetables, legumes, onions, tomatoes, as well as grains like barley, oat, and wheat [are] prebiotics.
other fibers like inulin are also prebiotics that are added to foods like granola bars, cereal, and yogurt.”
Treatment of enterococcal infections - UpToDate
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Gut microbiota diversity after autologous fecal microbiota transfer (a-FMT) in acute myeloid leukemia patients
Nature Communications - The combination of chemotherapy and broad-spectrum antibiotics induces gut microbiota (GM) dysbiosis in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) leading to additional complications....
strong negative correlation between fecal neopterin and alpha diversity, butyrate producing bacteria and Bifidobacterium.
pro-inflammatory bacteria Enterococcus correlates positively with fecal neopterin and ferritin and negatively with the butyrate producing bacteria Roseburia
Akkermansia that has been inversely associated with obesity, diabetes, cardiometabolic diseases and low-grade inflammation21, but also in response to cancer immunotherapy
negatively correlate with inflammatory parameters (fecal neopterin, CD14+ monocytes and neutrophils)
cross-fed
Akkermensia
development of allogenic FMT from multiple donors
AFMT may not be appropriate in patients with previous antibiotic therapies or other treatments altering the composition of the gut microbiota
Therefore, the use of allogenic FMT may be more effective
AFMT
24 h after antibiotics discontinuation
AFMT was planned at the end
laxative was administered before the first procedure
2 inocula of 150 mL one day apart
each containing 30 g of feces
lying position on their left side
in this position for 20 min
afterward turn on their belly, on their back and on their right side, maintaining each position for 15 min
stored frozen at −80 °C until transplantation
Feces were processed within 72 h with a patented cryoprotective diluent