Researchers pinpoint key factors to ensure successful fecal microbiota transplants
Could number two be number one when it comes to combating recurrent
Clostridium difficile (CDI) infections?
Using genetic material analysis and machine learning, UBC researchers have pinpointed several key factors to ensure successful fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), which have proven successful in treating bacterial infections in the gut including illnesses like
C. difficile, Crohn s Disease, Colitis and even obesity, explains lead author Negin Kazemian.
This therapy is still in its infancy, but studies like ours are helping identify key contributors to its overall success.
Negin Kazemian, Study Lead Author and Graduate Student, School of Engineering, University of British Columbia Okanagan campus