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Weight Gain After Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

Author(s) -

Neha Alang,

Colleen Kelly

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

open forum infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546

H-Index - 35

ISSN - 2328-8957

DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofv004

Subject(s) - fecal bacteriotherapy , medicine , feces , transplantation , weight gain , microbiology and biotechnology , clostridium difficile , body weight , antibiotics , biology

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a promising treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. We report a case of a woman successfully treated with FMT who developed new-onset obesity after receiving stool from a healthy but overweight donor. This case may stimulate further studies on the mechanisms of the nutritional-neural-microbiota axis and reports of outcomes in patients who have used nonideal donors for FMT.

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