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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Animals

A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Microbiology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 4319

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Glenn S. Tillotson

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GST Micro LLC, 327 Plantation Road, North, VA 23128, USA
Interests: infectious diseases; clostridioides difficile; microbiome; fecal microbiome transplantatiom
Dr. Kelly Reveles

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Pharmacotherapy Education & Research Ctr., University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive–MC 6220, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
Interests: microbiome in non-human primates; clostridioides difficile; microbiome in humans
Ms. Joni Meehan

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GST Micro LLC, 327 Plantation Road, North, VA 23128, USA
Interests: gastrointestinal infections in animals; application of microbiome transplantation in domestic animal

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is entitled "Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Animals". FMT works by altering the gut bacterial community of an animal and re-establishing a stable state, or by providing potentially protective bacteria against local and systemic lesions. FMT can have potential therapeutic effects on intestinal diseases, cardiovascular diseases, immune diseases, infectious encephalopathy, psychiatric disorders, and other conditions.

Some of its focal points include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. The use of microbiota transplantation in food animals;
  2. Applicability of microbiota transplantation in domestic animals;
  3. Experience of microbiota transplantation in wild or non-domesticated animals.

Reviews, original research, and communications are welcome in this Special Issue.

Dr. Glenn S. Tillotson
Dr. Kelly Reveles
Guest Editors
Ms. Joni Meehan
Guest Editor Assistant

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Developing the Common Marmoset as a Translational Geroscience Model to Study the Microbiome and Healthy Aging
by Kelly R. Reveles, Alexana J. Hickmott, Kelsey A. Strey, Aaryn C. Mustoe, Juan Pablo Arroyo, Michael L. Power, Benjamin J. Ridenhour, Katherine R. Amato and Corinna N. Ross
Microorganisms 2024, 12(5), 852; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12050852 - 25 Apr 2024
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Emerging data support associations between the depletion of the healthy gut microbiome and aging-related physiological decline and disease. In humans, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been used successfully to restore gut microbiome structure and function and to treat C. difficile infections, but its [...] Read more.
Emerging data support associations between the depletion of the healthy gut microbiome and aging-related physiological decline and disease. In humans, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been used successfully to restore gut microbiome structure and function and to treat C. difficile infections, but its application to healthy aging has been scarcely investigated. The marmoset is an excellent model for evaluating microbiome-mediated changes with age and interventional treatments due to their relatively shorter lifespan and many social, behavioral, and physiological functions that mimic human aging. Prior work indicates that FMT is safe in marmosets and may successfully mediate gut microbiome function and host health. This narrative review (1) provides an overview of the rationale for FMT to support healthy aging using the marmoset as a translational geroscience model, (2) summarizes the prior use of FMT in marmosets, (3) outlines a protocol synthesized from prior literature for studying FMT in aging marmosets, and (4) describes limitations, knowledge gaps, and future research needs in this field. Full article
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The Impact of Early-Life Cecal Microbiota Transplantation on Social Stress and Injurious Behaviors in Egg-Laying Chickens
by Yuechi Fu, Jiaying Hu, Huanmin Zhang, Marisa A. Erasmus, Timothy A. Johnson and Heng-Wei Cheng
Microorganisms 2024, 12(3), 471; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12030471 - 26 Feb 2024
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Injurious behaviors (i.e., aggressive pecking, feather pecking, and cannibalism) in laying hens are a critical issue facing the egg industry due to increased social stress and related health and welfare issues as well as economic losses. In humans, stress-induced dysbiosis increases gut permeability, [...] Read more.
Injurious behaviors (i.e., aggressive pecking, feather pecking, and cannibalism) in laying hens are a critical issue facing the egg industry due to increased social stress and related health and welfare issues as well as economic losses. In humans, stress-induced dysbiosis increases gut permeability, releasing various neuroactive factors, causing neuroinflammation and related neuropsychiatric disorders via the microbiota–gut–brain axis, and consequently increasing the frequency and intensity of aggression and violent behaviors. Restoration of the imbalanced gut microbial composition has become a novel treatment strategy for mental illnesses, such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, impulsivity, and compulsivity. A similar function of modulating gut microbial composition following stress challenge may be present in egg-laying chickens. The avian cecum, as a multi-purpose organ, has the greatest bacterial biodiversity (bacterial diversity, richness, and species composition) along the gastrointestinal tract, with vitally important functions in maintaining physiological and behavioral homeostasis, especially during the periods of stress. To identify the effects of the gut microbiome on injurious behaviors in egg-laying chickens, we have designed and tested the effects of transferring cecal contents from two divergently selected inbred chicken lines on social stress and stress-related injurious behaviors in recipient chicks of a commercial layer strain. This article reports the outcomes from a multi-year study on the modification of gut microbiota composition to reduce injurious behaviors in egg-laying chickens. An important discovery of this corpus of experiments is that injurious behaviors in chickens can be reduced or inhibited through modifying the gut microbiota composition and brain serotonergic activities via the gut–brain axis, without donor-recipient genetic effects. Full article
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