Background: Cow milk allergy is one of the most common food allergies in young children causing a wide range of clinical syndromes due to immunologic responses to cow milk proteins. In this report we introduce an infant with dietary protein proctitis due to a cow’s milk referred with hematuria and bloody stool. Case Presentation: Our case was a 10- month old m...

1. To evaluate the effect of age, sex and level of intake on the colonic response to wheat fibre, thirty healthy volunteers aged 17-62 years (nineteen men, eleven women) recruited from a local industry, were divided into four groups and given a controlled diet for two 3-week periods. The diet contained white bread during one period or one of four different amounts of bran-enriched wholemeal bre...

The aim of this study was to fortify the clinical importance and representation of toxigenic and non-toxigenic Clostridium difficile isolated from stool samples of hospitalized patients. This survey included 80 hospitalized patients with diarrhea and positive findings of Clostridium difficile in stool samples, and 100 hospitalized patients with formed stool as a control group. Bacteriological e...

Objectives Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a recommended therapy for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection and being investigated as potential dozens of microbiota-mediated indications. Stool banks centralize FMT donor screening material preparation with the goal expanding access to while simultaneously improving its safety, quality, convenience. Although there are published co...

Despite the potential effectiveness of colonoscopy and fecal occult blood tests in reducing colorectal cancer mortality, more specific, noninvasive tests are desirable. In this regard, it is possible to detect specific mutations of several genes in stool samples from colorectal cancer patients. Recently, the feasibility of a multitarget assay has been explored (1,2). Because the features of the...

BACKGROUND Effective methods are needed to collect fecal samples from children for large-scale microbiota studies. Stool collected on fecal occult blood test (FOBT) cards that can be mailed provides an effective solution; however, the quality of sequencing resulting from this method is unknown. The aim of this study is to compare microbiota metrics of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequencing fr...

OBJECTIVE Many new stool tests intended to detect neoplastic cells or cell products are developed at present for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. The aim of this study was to simulate a population-based screening setting to assess and compare the potential for early detection and prevention of CRC of screening based on stool tests with different sensitivity and specificity and of screening wi...

Bacteriological confirmation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is achieved in the minority of young children with tuberculosis (TB), since specimen collection is resource intensive and respiratory secretions are mostly paucibacillary, leading to limited sensitivity of available diagnostic tests. Although molecular tests are increasingly available globally, mycobacterial culture remains the gold sta...

PURPOSE Assessment of inflammation within the ileal pouch to establish a diagnosis of "pouchitis" requires both pouch endoscopy and biopsy because there can be a poor correlation between macroscopic and histologic assessments of inflammation. A simplified diagnostic test would be of clinical advantage. Calprotectin is a stable myelomonocytic protein, measurable in feces. It quantitatively relat...