Superbug study to invite 2,000 stool samples
Scientists want to find out more about levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in healthy people. Source link
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The Truth About Baby Poop: Colored Stool and Diarrhea in Infants
New babies don’t come with an instruction manual, but they do leave clues about the state of their health. Hiding in a baby’s diaper is a wealth of information, and many new parents understandably find themselves spending a lot of time and energy trying to decode the messages left for them — the amount, the … Read more
Stool tests might help spot early pancreatic cancer
This consistently identified patients with the disease, irrespective of how far it had progressed, suggesting that characteristic microbiome signatures emerge early on and that the stool microbiome might pick up early stage disease, say the researchers. Source link
Stool Samples From the 1980s Hold Clues to Fighting HIV Today
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Dec. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — What do all the microbes living rent-free in your gut have to do with disease risk? Perhaps a lot. A groundbreaking analysis of decades-old stool and blood samples from the early AIDS epidemic suggests that men who had high levels of inflammation-causing bacteria … Read more