Microbiome: Principles of microbiota engraftment

Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 186 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2018.29 Author: Andrea Du Toit Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has proved to be an effective treatment strategy for recurrent infections with Clostridium difficile. The success of FMT requires donor bacteria to engraft in the gut of the patient, but the factors that promote engraftment of individual strains has remained
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