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From MedPage Today: Fecal transplant success may depend on bile acid metabolism

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the transplants change patterns of bile acid metabolism in the gut, making the environment inhospitable to C. diff colonization.

In three studies reported at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2017, it was demonstrated that individuals with C. diff who respond to fecal transplant showed a different pattern of microbiota species composition compared with baseline and/or with those who fail to respond. But that’s not all: the responders also showed distinct, altered profiles of those elements involved in bile acid metabolism.

Vincent Van Gogh; Hopital Saint-Paul (1889)