She was admitted for treatment of an E. coli bacteraemia. CT scan had shown a caecal pole mass, highly suspicious for malignancy. It was surgically resected, and histology revealed findings of ...

Design The FVT consisted of viromes with distinct profiles extracted from the caecal content of mice from different vendors that were fed a low-fat (LF) diet for 14 weeks. Male C57BL/6NTac mice were ...

It carries a high rate of mortality and morbidity. A number of studies have implicated non-traumatic gas gangrene and colonic neoplasia. This paper reports a patient who presented spontaneously with ...

The working diagnosis was renal calculi. A CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis (figure 1) was performed, which revealed a 5 cm gas and fluid-containing lesion with enteroliths in a Meckel’s diverticulum ...

RESULTS Without wheat bran, resistant starch was rapidly fermented in the caecum and proximal colon. Supplementation with wheat bran inhibited the caecal fermentation of resistant starch, resulting in ...

Symbiosis refers to the partnership (usually long-term) that is established between two or more organisms. In microbiology, symbiotic relationships are often established between a microorganism ...

The international symposium on Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and the Environment (ARAE) is a renowned scientific event gathering many scientists in the field from all over the world every 2 ...

Objective To assess whether gut microbiota composition is associated with patient characteristics and may have predictive value on the response to TNF inhibitor (TNFi) treatment in axial ...