%0 Journal Article
%T Fecal microbiota transplantation and its potential therapeutic uses in gastrointestinal disorders
%A Courtney Cockerell
%A Jamal A. Ibdah
%A Ravinder Mankoo
%A Ryan D. Heath
%A Veysel Tahan
%J Archive of "Northern Clinics of Istanbul".
%D 2018
%R 10.14744/nci.2017.10692
%X Typical human gut flora has been well characterized in previous studies and has been noted to have significant differences when compared with the typical microbiome of various disease states involving the gastrointestinal tract. Such diseases include Clostridium difficile colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, functional bowel syndromes, and various states of liver disease. A growing number of studies have investigated the use of a fecal microbiota transplant as a potential therapy for these disease states
%K Disease
%K fecal microbiota
%K fecal transplantation
%K gastrointestinal
%K stool
%K therapy
%K treatment
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5864716/