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February 27, 2016

Viral Con Foils Drug-Resistant Microbes, May Nix Need For Poop Transplants

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schwit1 writes: The researchers, led by immunologists at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, got started on the idea of harnessing a viral decoy knowing that such germs normally manipulate and prune the gut microbiome. The community of viruses that bustle in human guts -- called the virome or microvirome -- trigger anti-microbial immune responses that can put the microbial communities on lock down, preventing new microbes from colonizing. Such a state of "colonization resistance" in the gut could thwart harmful germs from moving in, particularly when the microbiome is imbalanced and vulnerable after antibiotic treatments, the researchers hypothesized -- and they found they were right.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Viral+Con+Foils+Drug-Resistant+Microbes%2C+May+Nix+Need+For+Poop+Transplants%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1LlfdXg"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F16%2F02%2F27%2F1531251%2Fviral-con-foils-drug-resistant-microbes-may-nix-need-for-poop-transplants%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/16/02/27/1531251/viral-con-foils-drug-resistant-microbes-may-nix-need-for-poop-transplants?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/16/02/27/1531251/viral-con-foils-drug-resistant-microbes-may-nix-need-for-poop-transplants?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/ey2lIgT15bs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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