Separation of Donor and Recipient Microbial Diversity Allows Determination of Taxonomic and Functional Features of Gut Microbiota Restructuring following Fecal Transplantation

ABSTRACT Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is currently used in medicine to treat recurrent clostridial colitis and other intestinal diseases. However, neither the therapeutic mechanism of FMT nor the mechanism that allows the donor bacteria to colonize the intestine of the recipient has yet be...

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Main Authors: Evgenii I. Olekhnovich, Artem B. Ivanov, Vladimir I. Ulyantsev, Elena N. Ilina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-08-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00811-21