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ReviewClinical microbiology reviews2017

Gleaning Insights from Fecal Microbiota Transplantation and Probiotic Studies for the Rational Design of Combination Microbial Therapies.

Lauren E Hudson, Sarah E Anderson, Anita H Corbett, Tracey J Lamb

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Review in Clinical microbiology reviews, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lauren E HudsonDepartment of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Sarah E AndersonDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Anita H CorbettDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Tracey J LambDepartment of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA tracey.j.lamb@emory.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0620-3944

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008169 · NIGMS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI GROSS, ROBERT E · 1987 to 2021
$20.3M
Antimicrobial Resistance and Therapeutic Discovery Training ProgramT32AI106699 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Graeme L Conn, Joanna B Goldberg · 2014 to 2026
$2.7M
The development of probiotic yeast as an inexpensive vaccine delivery platformDP2AI112242 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI LAMB, TRACEY JANE · 2013 to 2013
$2.3M
NIAID NIH HHS DP2 AI112242NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI106699NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008169
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beneficial microorganisms hold promise for the treatment of numerous gastrointestinal diseases. The transfer of whole microbiota via fecal transplantation has already been shown to ameliorate the severity of diseases such as Clostridium difficile infection, inflammatory bowel disease, and others. However, the exact mechanisms of fecal microbiota transplant efficacy and the particular strains conferring this benefit are still unclear. Rationally designed combinations of microbial preparations may enable more efficient and effective treatment approaches tailored to particular diseases. Here we use an infectious disease, C. difficile infection, and an inflammatory disorder, the inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis, as examples to facilitate the discussion of how microbial therapy might be rationally designed for specific gastrointestinal diseases. Fecal microbiota transplantation has already shown some efficacy in the treatment of both these disorders; detailed comparisons of studies evaluating commensal and probiotic organisms in the context of these disparate gastrointestinal diseases may shed light on potential protective mechanisms and elucidate how future microbial therapies can be tailored to particular diseases.

Indexed as

AdultClinical Trials as TopicClostridioides difficileColitis, UlcerativeCombined Modality TherapyEnterocolitis, PseudomembranousFecal Microbiota TransplantationHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesProbioticsResearch DesignTreatment OutcomeClostridium difficilefecal microbiota transplantationmicrobiotaprobioticsulcerative colitis

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PMID27856521
PMCPMC5217792

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