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Fecal microbiota transplantation for COVID-19; a potential emerging treatment strategy

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At the end of 2019, an emerging outbreak caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2) that first reported from Wuhan, China。 The first manifestations of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 was flu-like symptoms, while other type of manifestations, especially gastrointestinal manifestations were discovered recently。 As of June 2020, there is no specific drug or treatment strategy for COVID-19, a disease caused by SARSCoV-2, so different combination of antiviral drugs is currently being used。 Gut microbiota mostly consists of four phyla, including Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria。 The interaction between gut microbiota and immune system through releasing some cytokines such as IL-1 beta, IL-2, IL-10, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma that play roles in the severity of COVID-19。 In this article, a new potential treatment for COVID-19 by fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is described。 FMT revealed promising results in different diseases, especially recurrent clostridium difficile infection, and it might reduce length of hospital admission and severity of the disease by modification of gut microbiota composition。

Fecal microbiota transplantationGut microbiotaCOVID-19SARS-CoV-22019-nCoV

Nejadghaderi, Seyed Aria、Nazemalhosseini-Mojarad, Ehsan、Aghdaei, Hamid Asadzadeh

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Shahid Beheshti Univ Med Sci, Sch Med, Tehran, Iran

Shahid Beheshti Univ Med Sci, Gastroenterol & Liver Dis Res Ctr, Res Inst Gastroenterol & Liver Dis

Shahid Beheshti Univ Med Sci, Basic & Mol Epidemiol Gastrointestinal Disorders, Res Inst

2021

Medical hypotheses

Medical hypotheses

SCI
ISSN:0306-9877
年,卷(期):2021.147
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