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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2,4,6-Tribromophenol Disposition and Kinetics in Rodents: Effects of Dose, Route, Sex, and Species. 
  • A coprological survey of parasites of wild mantled howling monkeys, Alouatta palliata palliata. 
  • A look at the stool can save a barium study. 
  • A mathematical model to evaluate the routine use of fecal microbiota transplantation to prevent incident and recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • A role for gut microbiota in host niche differentiation. 
  • AIDS-associated diarrhea and wasting in Northeast Brazil is associated with subtherapeutic plasma levels of antiretroviral medications and with both bovine and human subtypes of Cryptosporidium parvum. 
  • Acquisition of Clostridium difficile from the hospital environment. 
  • Adenoviral-mediated gene transfer induces sustained pericardial VEGF expression in dogs: effect on myocardial angiogenesis. 
  • African strains of hepatitis E virus that are distinct from Asian strains. 
  • Altering and assessing persistence of genetically modified E. coli MG1655 in the large bowel. 
  • Amebiasis in a mental institution: serologic and epidemiologic studies. 
  • Amplification of a complete simian immunodeficiency virus genome from fecal RNA of a wild chimpanzee. 
  • An assessment of fecal indicator bacteria-based water quality standards. 
  • Analysis of enteric coagulase-negative staphylococci from neonates with necrotizing enterocolitis. 
  • Androgens predict parasitism in female meerkats: a new perspective on a classic trade-off. 
  • Antibiotic-induced changes in the microbiota disrupt redox dynamics in the gut. 
  • Application of rejection criteria for stool cultures for bacterial enteric pathogens. 
  • Application of rejection criteria for stool ovum and parasite examinations. 
  • Assessment and significance of bacterial overgrowth in the small bowel. 
  • Assessment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease surveillance definitions, North Carolina, 2005. 
  • Association Between Breast Milk Bacterial Communities and Establishment and Development of the Infant Gut Microbiome. 
  • Associations Between Nutrition, Gut Microbiome, and Health in A Novel Nonhuman Primate Model. 
  • Bacterial contamination associated with estuarine shoreline development. 
  • Bacterial gastroenteritis. 
  • Bamboo Specialists from Two Mammalian Orders (Primates, Carnivora) Share a High Number of Low-Abundance Gut Microbes. 
  • Barriers to Follow-up Colonoscopies for Patients With Positive Results From Fecal Immunochemical Tests During Colorectal Cancer Screening. 
  • Barriers to full colon evaluation for a positive fecal occult blood test. 
  • Behavioral and physiological responses to fruit availability of spider monkeys ranging in a small forest fragment. 
  • Black stool. Some light on a dark subject. 
  • Broad-range (pan) Salmonella and Salmonella serotype typhi-specific real-time PCR assays: potential tools for the clinical microbiologist. 
  • Burden of childhood rotavirus disease on health systems in the United States. 
  • Calprotectin: a novel noninvasive marker for intestinal allograft monitoring. 
  • Campylobacter enteritis. 
  • Campylobacter enteritis: clinical and epidemiologic features. 
  • Caught on Colonoscopy: Schistosomiasis Manifesting as a Single Colonic Polyp. 
  • Causal Pathways from Enteropathogens to Environmental Enteropathy: Findings from the MAL-ED Birth Cohort Study. 
  • Cholesterol homeotasis in rats fed a purified diet. 
  • Chronic pouchitis after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis: responses to butyrate and glutamine suppositories in a pilot study. 
  • Colonoscopy vs. Fecal Immunochemical Test in Reducing Mortality From Colorectal Cancer (CONFIRM): Rationale for Study Design. 
  • Coming of age: steroid hormones of wild immature baboons (Papio cynocephalus). 
  • Common methods for fecal sample storage in field studies yield consistent signatures of individual identity in microbiome sequencing data. 
  • Comparative analysis of environmental and clinical populations of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Comparative evaluation of a new magnetic bead-based DNA extraction method from fecal samples for downstream next-generation 16S rRNA gene sequencing. 
  • Comparison of CampyPak II with standard 5% oxygen and candle jars for growth of Campylobacter jejuni from human feces. 
  • Comparison of atmospheres of incubation for primary isolation of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from animal specimens: 5% oxygen versus candle jar. 
  • Comparison of fecal biota from specific pathogen free and feral mice. 
  • Comparison of four plating media for isolating Vibrio cholerae. 
  • Comparison of two rapid assays for Clostridium difficile Common antigen and a C difficile toxin A/B assay with the cell culture neutralization assay. 
  • Concerted use of immunologic and ultrastructural analyses in diagnostic medicine: immunoelectron microscopy and correlative microscopy. 
  • Concessions of an alpha male? Cooperative defence and shared reproduction in multi-male primate groups. 
  • Contemporary testing for enteric pathogens: the potential for cost, time, and health care savings. 
  • Coproexamination for botulinal toxin and clostridium botulinum. A new procedure for laboratory diagnosis of botulism. 
  • Cost and time savings following introduction of rejection criteria for clinical specimens. 
  • Criterion-related validity of a diarrhea questionnaire in HIV-infected patients. 
  • Cryptococcus neoformans mates on pigeon guano: implications for the realized ecological niche and globalization. 
  • Cryptococcus neoformans shows a remarkable genotypic diversity in Brazil. 
  • Cryptosporidium-malnutrition interactions: mucosal disruption, cytokines, and TLR signaling in a weaned murine model. 
  • Current trends in botulism in the United States. 
  • Daily variability in mineral metabolites in CKD and effects of dietary calcium and calcitriol. 
  • Dark-field microscopy of human feces for presumptive diagnosis of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni enteritis. 
  • Demographic and ecological effects on patterns of parasitism in eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. 
  • Destabilization of the gut microbiome marks the end-stage of simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild chimpanzees. 
  • Detecting colorectal cancer in stool with the use of multiple genetic targets. 
  • Detection of APC mutations in fecal DNA from patients with colorectal tumors. 
  • Detection of Escherichia coli enterotoxins in stools. 
  • Detection of proximal colorectal cancers through analysis of faecal DNA. 
  • Detection of stool DNA mutations before and after treatment of colorectal neoplasia. 
  • Diagnosis of Giardia lamblia infections by detection of parasite-specific antigens. 
  • Diarrhoea associated with heat-stable enterotoxin-producing strains of Escherichia coli. 
  • Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. 
  • Direct observation of hygiene in a Peruvian shantytown: not enough handwashing and too little water. 
  • Disease due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in Bangladeshi adults: clinical aspects and a controlled trial of tetracycline. 
  • Disrupted Maturation of the Microbiota and Metabolome among Extremely Preterm Infants with Postnatal Growth Failure. 
  • Dissecting the in vivo metabolic potential of two human gut acetogens. 
  • Does the intestinal microflora synthesize pyrroloquinoline quinone? 
  • Does this patient have a severe upper gastrointestinal bleed? 
  • Double-blind placebo controlled trial of erythromycin for treatment of Campylobacter enteritis. 
  • Duration of incubation of fungal cultures. 
  • Dynamic change of fecal calprotectin in very low birth weight infants during the first month of life. 
  • Editorial: Toxigenic turista. 
  • Effect of bismuth salts on systemic and mucosal immune responses to orally administered cholera toxin. 
  • Effect of incubation atmosphere and temperature on isolation of Campylobacter jejuni from human stools. 
  • Effect of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis on antimicrobial resistance of fecal Escherichia coli in HIV-infected patients in Tanzania. 
  • Effects of a gut pathobiont in a gnotobiotic mouse model of childhood undernutrition. 
  • Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on indri (Indri indri) health in Madagascar. 
  • Efficient Genome-Wide Sequencing and Low-Coverage Pedigree Analysis from Noninvasively Collected Samples. 
  • Endemic amebiasis in an extended family. 
  • Endocrinology of year-round reproduction in a highly seasonal habitat: environmental variability in testosterone and glucocorticoids in baboon males. 
  • Enriched brucella medium for storage and transport of cultures of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. 
  • Enteric viruses associated with HIV infection in Tanzanian children with chronic diarrhea. 
  • Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Subclinical Infection and Coinfections and Impaired Child Growth in the MAL-ED Cohort Study. 
  • Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Reovirus-like agent in rural Bangladesh. 
  • Environmental and Aerosolized Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Among Hospitalized Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients. 
  • Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin. 
  • Epidemic shiga-bacillus dysentery in Central America. Evolution of the outbreak in El Salvador, 1969-70. 
  • Epidemiology of highly endemic multiply antibiotic-resistant shigellosis in children in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Estimation of energetic condition in wild baboons using fecal thyroid hormone determination. 
  • Evaluation of eight cephalosporins in hamster colitis model. 
  • Evaluation of transport media for Campylobacter jejuni in human fecal specimens. 
  • Evidence for a tradeoff between retention time and chewing efficiency in large mammalian herbivores. 
  • Evidence that ship noise increases stress in right whales. 
  • Factors associated with the diversification of the gut microbial communities within chimpanzees from Gombe National Park. 
  • Fatal, disseminated Acremonium strictum infection in a neutropenic host. 
  • Fecal Malodor Detection Using Low-Cost Electrochemical Sensors. 
  • Fecal leukocytes in stool specimens submitted for Clostridium difficile toxin assay. 
  • Fecal pellet output does not always correlate with colonic transit in response to restraint stress and corticotropin-releasing factor in rats. 
  • Fecal steroids in diarrhea. II. Travellers' diarrhea. 
  • Feeding strategy shapes gut metagenomic enrichment and functional specialization in captive lemurs. 
  • Fluorescent-antibody test for detection of Clostridium difficile in stool specimens. 
  • Foci of endemic simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild-living eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). 
  • Fucosylation Deficiency in Mice Leads to Colitis and Adenocarcinoma. 
  • Fungal farming in a snail. 
  • Gastrointestinal illness on passenger cruise ships. 
  • Gastrointestinal microbiota alteration induced by Mucor circinelloides in a murine model. 
  • Generation of infectious molecular clones of simian immunodeficiency virus from fecal consensus sequences of wild chimpanzees. 
  • Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children. 
  • Gut microbiota from twins discordant for obesity modulate metabolism in mice. 
  • Hepatitis B antigen in saliva, urine, and stool. 
  • Hexabromonaphthalene contaminants of polybrominated biphenyls: chemical composition and disposition in the rat. 
  • Hormonal correlates of natal dispersal and rank attainment in wild male baboons. 
  • Host lifestyle affects human microbiota on daily timescales. 
  • Human colonic biota studied by ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. 
  • Human secretory immunoglobulin A may contribute to biofilm formation in the gut. 
  • Hypolipidemic activity of tetrakis-mu-(trimethylamine-boranecarboxylato)-bis(trimethylamin e- carboxyborane)-dicopper(II) in rodents and its effect on lipid metabolism. 
  • Impact of simian immunodeficiency virus infection on chimpanzee population dynamics. 
  • Impact of strain type on detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile: comparison of molecular diagnostic and enzyme immunoassay approaches. 
  • Incidence and biomarkers of pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, and neonatal loss during an environmental stressor: Implications for female reproductive suppression in the cooperatively breeding meerkat. 
  • Interbirth intervals in wild baboons: Environmental predictors and hormonal correlates. 
  • Intestinal Microbiota and Relapse After Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation. 
  • Intestinal adaptation after ileal interposition surgery increases bile acid recycling and protects against obesity-related comorbidities. 
  • Intestinal alkaline phosphatase promotes gut bacterial growth by reducing the concentration of luminal nucleotide triphosphates. 
  • Isocoproporphyrin: nuclear-magnetic-resonance-and mass-spectral methods for the determination of porphyrin structure. 
  • Laboratory investigation of diarrhea in travelers to Mexico: evaluation of methods for detecting enterotoxigenic Echerichia coli. 
  • Lactose drives Enterococcus expansion to promote graft-versus-host disease. 
  • Life at the top: rank and stress in wild male baboons. 
  • Life-history correlates of steroid concentrations in wild peripartum baboons. 
  • Limulus amebocyte lysate test in neonates. 
  • Luminally released serotonin stimulates colonic motility and accelerates colonic transit in rats. 
  • Measuring fecal testosterone in females and fecal estrogens in males: comparison of RIA and LC/MS/MS methods for wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus). 
  • Mechanisms of sexual selection: sexual swellings and estrogen concentrations as fertility indicators and cues for male consort decisions in wild baboons. 
  • Metabarcoding of eukaryotic parasite communities describes diverse parasite assemblages spanning the primate phylogeny. 
  • Metabolic balance of manganese in young men consuming diets containing five levels of dietary manganese. 
  • Microbial nitrogen limitation in the mammalian large intestine. 
  • Microbiota as Predictor of Mortality in Allogeneic Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation. 
  • Microbiota of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Models. 
  • Mig-6 plays a critical role in the regulation of cholesterol homeostasis and bile acid synthesis. 
  • Modeling the relationship between most probable number (MPN) and colony-forming unit (CFU) estimates of fecal coliform concentration. 
  • Molecular approaches for colorectal cancer screening. 
  • Molecular ecology and natural history of simian foamy virus infection in wild-living chimpanzees. 
  • Morphological Identification of Hair Recovered from Feces for Detection of Cannibalism in Eastern Chimpanzees. 
  • Motility-indole-lysine medium for presumptive identification of enteric pathogens of Enterobacteriaceae. 
  • Moving beyond microbiome-wide associations to causal microbe identification. 
  • Multicolor in vitro translation. 
  • Mycobacteria in stool specimens: the nonvalue of smears for predicting culture results. 
  • NCCN Guidelines Insights: Colorectal Cancer Screening, Version 1.2018. 
  • Neonatal Rhesus Macaques Have Distinct Immune Cell Transcriptional Profiles following HIV Envelope Immunization. 
  • Non-invasive body temperature measurement of wild chimpanzees using fecal temperature decline. 
  • Noninvasive paternity assignment in Gombe chimpanzees. 
  • Novel circular DNA viruses in stool samples of wild-living chimpanzees. 
  • Nuclear DNA from primate dug 
  • Nursing assessment of guaiac-positive and occult blood in preterm infant stools. 
  • Nutrient removal from human fecal sludge digestate in full-scale biological filters. 
  • Obese humans with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease display alterations in fecal microbiota and volatile organic compounds. 
  • Oral immunogenicity of the plant proteinase bromelain. 
  • Oral polio vaccine response in the MAL-ED birth cohort study: Considerations for polio eradication strategies. 
  • Origins of fecal neutral steroids in rats. 
  • Outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis associated with Norwalk-like viruses in campus settings. 
  • Pathogen-specific burdens of community diarrhoea in developing countries: a multisite birth cohort study (MAL-ED). 
  • Pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus infection is associated with expansion of the enteric virome. 
  • Patterns of gut bacterial colonization in three primate species. 
  • Persistence of maternal effects in baboons: Mother's dominance rank at son's conception predicts stress hormone levels in subadult males. 
  • Physiological mechanisms of sustained fumagillin-induced weight loss. 
  • Practice guidelines for the management of infectious diarrhea. 
  • Prevention of antibiotic-associated metabolic syndrome in mice by intestinal alkaline phosphatase. 
  • Prior Dietary Practices and Connections to a Human Gut Microbial Metacommunity Alter Responses to Diet Interventions. 
  • Proteolytic activity and immunogenicity of oral bromelain within the gastrointestinal tract of mice. 
  • Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution. 
  • Restoring the Microbiome in Critically Ill Patients: Are Probiotics Our True Friends When We Are Seriously Ill? 
  • Restraint stress stimulates colonic motility via central corticotropin-releasing factor and peripheral 5-HT3 receptors in conscious rats. 
  • Risk factors for and estimated incidence of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, North Carolina, USA. 
  • SIV-induced instability of the chimpanzee gut microbiome. 
  • SIVcpz in wild chimpanzees. 
  • Safety, immunogenicity and efficacy in healthy infants of G1 and G2 human reassortant rotavirus vaccine in a new stabilizer/buffer liquid formulation. 
  • Seasonal patterns in risk factors for Taenia solium transmission: a GPS tracking study of pigs and open human defecation in northern Peru. 
  • Seasonality, sociality, and reproduction: Long-term stressors of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). 
  • Secretory IgA and mucin-mediated biofilm formation by environmental strains of Escherichia coli: role of type 1 pili. 
  • Sensitive digital quantification of DNA methylation in clinical samples. 
  • Shigellosis in custodial institutions. 
  • Short-chain fatty acids stimulate colonic transit via intraluminal 5-HT release in rats. 
  • Sialylated Milk Oligosaccharides Promote Microbiota-Dependent Growth in Models of Infant Undernutrition. 
  • Signature Patterns of MHC Diversity in Three Gombe Communities of Wild Chimpanzees Reflect Fitness in Reproduction and Immune Defense against SIVcpz. 
  • Six-year retrospective surveillance of gastroenteritis viruses identified at ten electron microscopy centers in the United States and Canada. 
  • Social bonds do not mediate the relationship between early adversity and adult glucocorticoids in wild baboons. 
  • Social networks predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons. 
  • Soil-transmitted helminth eggs assessment in wastewater in an urban area in India. 
  • Spatial organization of bacterial flora in normal and inflamed intestine: a fluorescence in situ hybridization study in mice. 
  • Splenda alters gut microflora and increases intestinal p-glycoprotein and cytochrome p-450 in male rats. 
  • Stool appearance in intussusception: assessing the value of the term "currant jelly". 
  • Stool calprotectin monitoring after small intestine transplantation. 
  • Studies on the epidemiology of antibiotic-associated Clostridium difficile colitis. 
  • Supercritical water oxidation of a model fecal sludge without the use of a co-fuel. 
  • Symptom outcomes important to women with anal incontinence: a conceptual framework. 
  • Testosterone positively associated with both male mating effort and paternal behavior in Savanna baboons (Papio cynocephalus). 
  • Testosterone related to age and life-history stages in male baboons and geladas. 
  • The Gut Microbiota Modulates Energy Metabolism in the Hibernating Brown Bear Ursus arctos. 
  • The United States National Prospective Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Study: microbiologic, serologic, clinical, and epidemiologic findings. 
  • The cell phone camera enters the gastroenterologist's office. 
  • The endocrinology of pregnancy and fetal loss in wild baboons. 
  • The microbe-derived short-chain fatty acids butyrate and propionate are associated with protection from chronic GVHD. 
  • The severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with gut dysbiosis and shift in the metabolic function of the gut microbiota. 
  • The spread of fecally transmitted parasites in socially-structured populations. 
  • The stepwise assembly of the neonatal virome is modulated by breastfeeding. 
  • Thin-layer and gas--liquid chromatographic identification of neutral steroids in human and rat feces. 
  • Timing of complementary feeding is associated with gut microbiota diversity and composition and short chain fatty acid concentrations over the first year of life. 
  • Travelers' diarrhea in Mexico. A prospective study of physicians and family members attending a congress. 
  • Use of colony pools for diagnosis of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhea. 
  • Use of sodium taurocholate to enhance spore recovery on a medium selective for Clostridium difficile. 
  • Validation of an enzyme immunoassay for assessing adrenocortical activity and evaluation of factors that affect levels of fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in two New World primates. 
  • Wildlife identified as major source of Escherichia coli in agriculturally dominated watersheds by BOX A1R-derived genetic fingerprints. 
  • Yield of stool culture with isolate toxin testing versus a two-step algorithm including stool toxin testing for detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Fisher, Deborah Anne, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic