Current Perspectives and Challenges on Fecal Microbiota Transplantation
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Gut Microbiota".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 9884
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Studies concerning gut microbiota, their role in the host’s physiology, and disease development have been hot topics in recent years in different medical fields, in particular gastroenterology. Gut microbiota are the most evolutionarily and functionally diverse organisms in our body and have great importance for our health through their interactions via the gut–brain axis. Several factors can affect the microenvironment of the gut, which increase the burden of diseases through dysbiosis development, emergence of pathogens, and alteration of microbial relationships with the host to a pathogenic state. Fecal microbiota transplantation has been successfully used to treat patients with antibiotic-resistant recurrent Clostridium difficile colitis and has recently been suggested as a new method to restore dysbiosis in both non-gastrointestinal and gastrointestinal disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease.
An understanding of the functional roles of gut microbiota and fecal microbiota transplantation for the hosts and how host–microbe interactions respond to changes in the gut microenvironment is needed to project future alterations in the gut microenvironment. This understanding can lead to developing creative tools to alter the gut microenvironment.
For this Special Issue, we invite you to send contributions related to the “Current Perspectives and Challenges on Fecal Microbiota Transplantation”.
Dr. Tarek Mazzawi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fecal microbiota transplantation
- gut microbiota
- Clostridium difficile antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- gut dysbiosis
- host–microbe interactions
- gut microenvironment
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