{"670898":{"#nid":"670898","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Clinical trial suggests fecal transplants may protect transplant patients against multi-drug-resistant organisms","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of infectious disease researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine, working with colleagues from the Georgia Institute of Technology, has found via clinical trial that fecal transplants after kidney transplantation reduce the susceptibility of patients to infections by multi-drug-resistant organisms (MDROs).\u0026nbsp;In their\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.abo2750\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E, reported in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience Translational Medicine\u003C\/em\u003E, the group tested the impact of fecal microbiota transfer (FMT) on kidney\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/transplant\/\u0022 rel=\u0022tag\u0022\u003Etransplant\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;patients receiving care at Emory Transplant Center, in Atlanta. One of the researchers involved in the study is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/roth-conrad\u0022\u003ERoth E. Conrad\u003C\/a\u003E, an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EOcean Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. scholar in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of infectious disease researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine, working with colleagues from the Georgia Institute of Technology, has found via clinical trial that fecal transplants after kidney transplantation reduce the susceptibility of patients to infections by multi-drug-resistant organisms (MDROs).\u0026nbsp;In their\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.abo2750\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E, reported in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience Translational Medicine\u003C\/em\u003E, the group tested the impact of fecal microbiota transfer (FMT) on kidney\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/transplant\/\u0022 rel=\u0022tag\u0022\u003Etransplant\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;patients receiving care at Emory Transplant Center, in Atlanta. One of the researchers involved in the study is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/roth-conrad\u0022\u003ERoth E. Conrad\u003C\/a\u003E, an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EOcean Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. scholar in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-11-06 15:23:37","changed_gmt":"2023-11-06 15:23:37","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Medical Xpress","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2023-11-clinical-trial-fecal-transplants-transplant.html","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-11-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"188230","name":"Ocean Science and Engineering (OSE)"},{"id":"193242","name":"Roth E. Conrad"},{"id":"193243","name":"fecal transplants"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}