Researchers analyzed the fecal transplants from a single, healthy donor to three children with chronic ulcerative colitis. The children received a course of 22 to 30 transplants.
Here are three points:
1. Frederic Bushman, PhD, chair of the department of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia and the study’s principal investigator, could see the bacterial viruses moving between humans but did not see any viruses that grow on animal cells that may be of concern for infecting and harming patients.
2. Dr. Bushman and his colleagues mostly saw temperate bacteriophages.
3. Temperate phages appeared to be transferred preferentially during fecal transplants.
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