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Different commercially available preparations of oral bacteriotherapy were administered over a period of four days in high doses to 53 infants suffering from acute non-bacterial diarrhoea, who simultaneously took only the rehydration solution recommended by WHO. The number of stool passages per day did not differ between patients with only rehydration and those with rehydration plus oral bacteriotherapy. Such therapy, on the contrary, restores normal faecal flora which has been lowered by acute diarrhoea thus preventing the ecological disequilibrium which is considered one of the causes of postenteritis persistent diarrhoea.
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Zoppi, G., Balsamo, V., Deganello, A. et al. Oral bacteriotherapy in clinical practice. Eur J Pediatr 139, 22–24 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00442073
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00442073