32 results about "Antibiotic-associated diarrhoea" patented technology

The present invention relates to the development of a targeted delivery system for the oral delivery of probiotics or therapeutic agent for various indications, including and not limited to active and prophylaxis treatment of Clostridium difficile infection, antibiotic associated diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, intestinal flora replacement, supplemental flora treatments for patients taking antibiotics, and for restoration of balance and signaling between the intestinal microbiome and the intestinal cells in patients under treatment of metabolic syndrome manifestations, specifically diabetes, insulin resistance, obesity, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

The present invention relates to synbiotic compositions comprising probiotic bacterial strains and prebiotic substances that, when combined exhibit synergistic behavior. The synergetic compositions will stimulate the indigenous microflora to restore and reconstitute in vivo gut like conditions after antibiotic associated diarrhea (AAD), and/or other gut infections caused by gastrointestinal pathogens, and relapses thereof, as well as the prevention of said disorders.

Bacteria of the sp. Bacillus that produce a lipopeptide are found to be effective in the treatment and prophylaxis of gastro-intestinal disease when administered as a probiotic. In particular, a strain of Bacillus bacteria identified as PB6 is useful for the treatment of Antibiotic Associated Diarrhea (AAD) or the more serious condition Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD) when administered as a probiotic. Additionally, these bacteria have been found efficient for the treatment of immunorelated diseases such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

The invention relates to novel forms of compounds displaying broad spectrum antibiotic activity, especially crystalline polymorphic forms and amorphous forms of such compounds, compositions comprising such crystalline polymorphic forms and amorphous forms of such compounds, processes for manufacture and use thereof. The compounds and compositions of the invention are useful in the pharmaceutical industry, for example, in the treatment or prevention of diseases or disorders associated with the use of antibiotics, chemotherapies, or antiviral therapies, including, but not limited to, colitis, for example, pseudo-membranous colitis; antibiotic associated diarrhea; and infections due to Clostridium difficile (“C. difficile”), Clostridium perfringens (“C. perfringens”), Staphylococcus species, for example, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus, or Enterococcus including Vancomycin-resistant enterococci.

Methods and compositions for the treatment of toxin-mediated diseases are provided herein. One aspect of the invention is oligosaccharide-based therapeutics that interact with toxins and methods of uses thereof. In one embodiment the oligosaccharide-based therapeutics of the invention comprise polymeric particles with attached oligosaccharide binding moieties. The compositions of the invention can be used in the treatment of toxin-mediated diseases such as antibiotic-associated diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis, including Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea.

The invention discloses a preparation method and application of dendrobium officinale yoghurt. The preparation method comprises uniformly mixing whole milk powder, water and cane sugar, or fresh milk and cane sugar, and performing homogenization processing; then adding dendrobium officinale fine powder, performing sterilization processing, then adding mixed bacteria composed of lactobacillus bulgaricus and streptococcus thermophiles, stirring uniformly, adding into a container, performing sealing, fermenting, cooling and post-ripening, so as to obtain the dendrobium officinale yoghurt which possesses high probiotics living bacterium quantity and contains dendrobium officinale active composition. The preparation method possesses advantages of short fermentation period, simple operation and low cost. The prepared dendrobium officinale yoghurt is applicable to prepare food possessing functions of treating spleen deficiency and constipation and treating antibiotic-related diarrhea.

Various types of synbiotic therapies are provided for the treatment of a variety of gastrointestinal and other disorders. The combination of prebiotics to probiotics is defined as a synbiotic therapy. The principal GI disorders associated with dysbiosis that can be treated from such a therapeutic intervention include but are not limited to: inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), antibiotic-associated diarrheas such as recurrent Clostridium difficile infection, and possibly variants of Celiac disease. Other disorders that may also be ameliorated by the proposed synbiotic therapy include metabolic syndromes and central nervous system disorders. The disclosed methods and compositions were developed to improve upon currently available probiotics through consideration of the human intestinal microbiota, and its relationship to various intestinal metabolic and neuropsychiatric disorders. In one embodiment, the disclosed synbiotic compositions include prebiotics and a targeted delivery system, which altogether promote the survival, growth, and attachment of probiotic microbiota.

The invention provides a preparation method of a mice intestinal flora alteration ERIC-PCR (Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus sequence-based Polymerase Chain Reaction) fingerprint spectrum. The preparation method comprises the steps: moulding mice intestinal flora alteration caused by antibacterial-associated diarrhea, extracting a cecum content DNA, eliminating humic acid in the cecum content DNA, eliminating a PCR inhibitor in the cecum content DNA, performing ERIC-PCR amplification and native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (Native-PAGE), and comparing with a conventional flora analysis result so as to establish the ERIC-PCR fingerprint spectrum of the mice intestinal flora alteration. According to the preparation method, with a pure-series mice as a research object, the defect caused when a conventional bacterium culturing method is applied to the microflora analysis is solved. The preparation method can be used for rapid detection of the laboratory mice intestinal flora alteration, prevents the defects of complicated operation, long time consumption, large workload and the like of conventional bacterium separation and culturing, and is capable of accurately, rapidly and effectively detecting the mice intestinal flora distribution condition.

The present invention concerns a lactic composition useful for the prevention or treatment of diarrhea such as antibiotic associated diarrhea or “tourista”. The composition according to the invention contains at least a bacterial strain selected from the group consisting of Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus acidophilus I-1492 Lactobacillus casei and a mixture of thereof.

The invention discloses application of stachyose in preparing a medicine for preventing and curing diarrhea. Experiments prove that the stachyose has certain alleviating and curing effects for intestinal infection diarrhea, antibiotic-associated diarrhea, bacillary dysentery diarrhea, rotavirus infection diarrhea, non-specific diarrhea and the like.

The invention discloses a medicine for treating antibiotic-associated diarrhea. The effective components contained in the invention are prepared by rhizoma coptidis, radix scutellariae, radix codonopsitis, rhizoma atractylodis alba, Indian buead, liquoric root, rhizoma alismatis and costus root according to a certain proportion by weight. The effective components can be prepared into any common oral formulation. The invention has the functions of clearing heat and dampness, reinforcing the spleen, replenishing qi, alleviating the symptoms of diarrhea and bellyache and facilitating the recovery of alteration of intestinal flora, and can treat the antibiotic-associated diarrhea or intestinal flora alterative enteritis. The invention further discloses the preparation method of the medicine.

C. difficile infection (CDI) is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Unfortunately, antibiotic therapy remains as the standard treatment for this antibiotic-induced disease and relapses are common. Antibiotic treatment typically is given for 10 to 14 days for initial or second episode of CDI. For recurrent episodes, more prolonged courses are recommended. It is disclosed herein that lower dose or shorter course of the antimicrobial treatment is sufficient to treat the disease and prevent recurrent disease by enabling a good immunologic response to infection, and perhaps also by better preserving normal flora, thus protecting against relapses or reinfection.

The invention relates to application of American ginseng in forest mountain in preparation of a medicine for treating antibiotic-associated diarrhea, and belongs to the field of biomedicine. Animal model experiments are carried out by adopting an ethanol extract of the American ginseng in the forest mountain. Experimental results prove that the ethanol extract of the American ginseng under the forest mountain has a relatively good protection effect on an antibiotic-related diarrhea experimental model caused by antibiotic drug combination, and has a reversal effect on pathological changes of colon and ileum of mice; expression of proinflammatory factors TNF-alpha, IL-1beta and IL-6 in serum of mice is inhibited, so that intestinal inflammation is relieved; the level of short-chain fatty acid in the intestinal tract of the mice can be recovered; the intestinal flora structure and diversity are improved; and pains of patients can be relieved, and life quality can be improved.

Clostridium difficile infection is the leading cause of hospital acquired antibiotic-associated diarrhea in the US (Bartlett, in 2006). The increased prevalence of circulating C. difficile strains poses a significant health threat to US health care facilities. Strains expressing the toxin C. difficile Transferase (CDT), in addition to Toxins A and B (TcdA and TcdB), are more virulent and are associated with higher mortality rates (Bacci et al., 2011). We recently identified a protective role for eosinophils against C. difficile pathogenesis (Buonomo et al., 2016). We have also defined CDT's ability to increase host inflammation and suppress protective eosinophils through a TLR2 dependent mechanism (Cowardin et al., 2016). How CDT promotes virulence and eosinophil suppression via TLR2 is still under investigation. We employed a genome-wide microarray approach to reveal divergent transcriptional profiles between protected (TLR2−/−) and unprotected (WT) mice infected with either CDT expressing or CDT mutant strains of C. difficile. This work revealed novel host mediated TLR2-dependent inflammatory pathways to CDT. We provide an unbiased framework for understanding the host immune response to the binary toxin CDT produced by C. difficile and how TLR2 signaling enhances virulence.

The invention relates to a synthetic composition comprising human milk oligosaccharides for use in at least partially restoring the commensal gastrointestinal microbiota and preventing or mitigating antibiotic associated diarrhoea.

Recurrent C. difficile infections are the major cause of death due to C. difficile, which is the causative agent of approximately 20% of antibiotic-associated diarrheas. Conventional treatments for C. difficile infections are not capable of eliminating the rates of recurrence, which occurs in 20-30% of the cases and may be repetitive, the probability of death being greater in each cycle. Until now, the persistence mechanisms of C. difficile for producing recurrence conditions were unknown. In the present invention, we describe the mechanism by which C. difficile spores persist, and a method of treatment with a pharmacological composition based on an antibiotic and nystatin for preventing recurrent C. difficile infections. The route of administration of nystatin is also protected (i.e., oral, intraperitoneal).