The Effect of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on a Child with Tourette Syndrome | Zendy

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The Effect of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on a Child with Tourette Syndrome

Author(s) -

Huijun Zhao,

Yichao Shi,

Xi Luo,

Lihua Peng,

Yunsheng Yang,

LiPing Zou

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

case reports in medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 1687-9627

pISSN - 1687-9635

DOI - 10.1155/2017/6165239

Subject(s) - fecal bacteriotherapy , tourette syndrome , medicine , gut flora , transplantation , feces , pediatrics , psychiatry , immunology , biology , clostridium difficile , microbiology and biotechnology , paleontology , antibiotics

Tourette syndrome is a neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood. New therapies are needed to effectively manage and treat this condition. Gut microbiota can affect central physiology and function via the microbiota-gut-brain axis. Here, we report a case in which fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is used to treat a child with Tourette syndrome, whose symptoms ameliorated dramatically in the following eight weeks.

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