Open Access<p>Improvement in Clinical Symptoms and Fecal Microbiome After Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in a Dog with Inflammatory Bowel Disease</p>
Author(s) -
Ayaka Niina,
Ryoko Kibe,
Ryôhei Suzuki,
Yunosuke Yuchi,
Teruki Teshima,
Hirotaka Matsumoto,
Yuki Kataoka,
Hidekazu Koyama
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
veterinary medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2230-2034
DOI - 10.2147/vmrr.s230862
Subject(s) - microbiome , feces , fecal bacteriotherapy , medicine , gastroenterology , inflammatory bowel disease , disease , biology , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , clostridium difficile , bioinformatics
Recently, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been tested in veterinary medicine as a treatment option for multiple gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, there are no reports of changes in the microbial diversity of fecal microbiome after treatment with FMT in canine IBD cases. Moreover, little is known about the long-term efficacy and safety of FMT treatment for dogs. Herein, we present a case of canine intractable IBD treated with repeated, long-term FMT.