Search Results - Cheng-Hsun Chiu
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Faecal microbiota transplantation to decolonize vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus: A pilot study to evaluate safety and clinical outcome
Published 2025-06-01Get full textABSTRACT: Objectives: Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has shown promise as a treatment for recurrent or refractory Clostridioides difficile infections. This study aimed to evaluate the decolonization effects of FMT on vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE). Methods: This feasibility trial...
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RopB-regulated SpeB cysteine protease degrades extracellular vesicles-associated streptolysin O and bacterial proteins from group A Streptococcus
Published 2023-12-01Get full textExtracellular vesicles (EVs) can be released from gram-positive bacteria and would participate in the delivery of bacterial toxins. Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus, GAS) is one of the most common pathogens of monomicrobial necrotizing fasciitis. Spontaneous inactivating mutation in the...
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Worldwide SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant infection: Emerging sub-variants and future vaccination perspectives
Published 2025-07-01Get full textThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has sparked widespread concern globally, particularly with the Omicron variant and its sub-lineages emerging as the predominant cause of infection for nearly two years. Taiwan's successful containment of COVID-19, underscored by broad vaccine cov...
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Clostridium innocuum, an emerging pathogen that induces lipid raft-mediated cytotoxicity
Published 2023-12-01Get full textClostridium innocuum is an emerging spore-forming anaerobe that is often observed in Clostridioides difficile-associated inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) exacerbations. Unlike C. difficile, C. innocuum neither produces toxins nor possesses toxin-encoding genetic loci, but is commonly found in both i...
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