Triatomine species influenced volume of feces produced; Triatoma dimidiata produced the largest volume of feces followed by Panstrongylus megistus, Rhodnius prolixus, and Triatoma infestans. Moreover, stage and sex affected fecal production; 5th-stage female nymphs excreted the largest volume of feces. The amount of blood ingested was significantly correlated with the volume of feces produced i...

R ecurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) exhibits a disrupted diverse gut microbiome where recolonization decides the final outcome of this often challenging course of disease. Clinical trial and error treatment with fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) have until recently produced limited amount of scientific data. Lack of a standardized procedure and obscure declaration of product conten...

Recently, we encountered a female patient who identified the presence of a ghost tablet in her fecal matter. Interestingly, although the patient was prescribed potassium chloride capsules, elemental composition analysis by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy was unable to detect the presence of either potassium or chloride in the fecal tablet remnant.

There are prospects for using novel feeds from various sources to provide ruminants with alternative sources of protein and energy such as by-products, and animal wastes. Rabbit feces are a concentrated source of fiber and could have commercial potential both as input biomass in anaerobic processes for biogas production, as well as a fibrous source for ruminal degradation. The aims of this work...

Control of within-herd transmission of Salmonella is important for reducing the prevalence of this organism on pig farms and for preventing Salmonella-contamination of pork. At the farm level, understanding the within-herd transmission of Salmonella can lead to more effective control. Salmonella infection is dependent on the inoculation dose; hence, quantitative evaluation of Salmonella shed in...

In breast-fed newborn infants, a stable microflora having more than 90% Bifidobacterium is usually developed in the colon and the feces within 5 days after birth. As a result, pH value lowers and putrefactive bacteria decrease in the feces. In bottle feeding with the milk containing a certain quantity of lactulose, it is observed that pH value, the population of Bifidobacterium, and lysozyme ac...

the early stages of liver carcinoma development in Sprague-Dawley rats. Bile acids were analyzed in urine and feces of azo dye-fed and control rats with the use of gas chromatography during the first 66 days of treatment. Seven bile acids were identified in the feces, with deoxycholic acid being the primary excretion product. During the first 36 days of 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene feedi...

Feces from 531 patients with gastroenteritis and from 100 clinically healthy individuals were tested for Helicobacter pullorum by use of PCR. Samples positive by PCR were qualified for isolation. H. pullorum DNA was demonstrated to be present in feces from 4.3% of patients with gastrointestinal disease but also in feces from 4.0% of clinically healthy persons. One strain was isolated from one p...

Gentamicin and several other basic antibiotics were examined for their ability to adsorb to dog feces. It was found that 44 to 90% of all antibiotics studied were adsorbed to feces depending on the ratio of antibiotic to fecal material. Attempts to extract these antibiotics by acid treatment after adsorption onto feces were only partially successful since large portions of the bound materials w...

Levels of nonsulfated and sulfated tibolone metabolites were determined in plasma, urine, and feces from six ovariectomized, mature female cynomolgus monkeys after a single dose and multiple p.o. doses (including bile) of tibolone using validated gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry assays. In plasma, the predominant nonsulfated metabolite afte...