Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

An ecological framework to understand the efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation

  • Yandong Xiao,
  • Marco Tulio Angulo,
  • Songyang Lao,
  • Scott T. Weiss,
  • Yang-Yu Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17180-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Here, the authors present a theoretical framework based on community ecology and network science to investigate the efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation in conditions associated with a disrupted gut microbiota, using the recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection as a prototype disease.