How to prepare stool banks for an appropriate response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences in the Netherlands and a retrospective comparative cohort study for faecal microbiota transplantation.

<h4>Background</h4>Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an efficacious treatment for patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections (rCDI). Stool banks facilitate FMT by providing screened faecal suspensions from highly selected healthy donors. Due to the ongoing coron...

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Main Authors: Bas Groenewegen, Emilie van Lingen, Rogier E Ooijevaar, Els Wessels, Mariet C W Feltkamp, Eline Boeije-Koppenol, Hein W Verspaget, Ed J Kuijper, Joffrey van Prehn, Josbert J Keller, Elisabeth M Terveer, Study Group of the Netherlands Donor Feces Bank
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265426