Efficacy and safety of gelatine tannate for the treatment of acute gastroenteritis in children: protocol of a randomised controlled trial.

Michałek D, Kołodziej M, Konarska Z, Szajewska H. BMJ Open. 2016;6(2):e010530. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010530. Introduction: Worldwide, acute gastroenteritis in children, usually caused by viruses, leads to considerable morbidity and mortality. The treatment is aimed at preventing and treating dehydration, promoting weight gain after rehydration, and reducing the duration and severity of diarrhoea. [...]

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Severe Diarrhea in a 4-month-old baby girl with acute gastroenteritis: a case report and review of the literature.

Guzganu I. Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine, Volume 2012. A 4.5-month-old baby girl presented to hospital with a 2-day history of watery diarrhea and fever. Rehydration and electrolytic balance were restored with intravenous fluid therapy followed by oral rehydration solution but diarrhea did not improve by the fourth day of [...]

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A comparative analysis of response to ORS (oral rehydration solution) vs. ORS + gelatine tannate in two cohorts of paediatric patients with acute diarrhoea.

Carretero et al. Rev. Esp. Enferm. Dig, Vol.101 Nº1, pp. 41-48, 2009. Aim: the study aims to observe the response to treatment with ORS only or ORS + gelatin tannate in two cohorts of pediatric patients with acute diarrhea, with the primary efficacy endpoint being the number of stools at [...]

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Glycans as legislators of host–microbial interactions: spanning the spectrum from symbiosis to pathogenicity.

Lora V. Hooper  Jeffrey I. Gordon Glycobiology (2001) 11 (2): 1R-10R. The number of microbes associated with our gut likely exceeds our total number of somatic and germ cells. Despite their numbers, almost nothing is known about the molecular mechanisms that determine whether the interaction between a microbial species and [...]

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Evaluation of reticulated gelatin-hibiscus-propolis against intestinal commensal species commonly associated with urinary tract infections. Future Microbiology. Published online: 3 March 2017

Olier M et al. Future Microbiology. Published online: 3 March 2017 Aim: Reticulated gelatin (RG), hibiscus and propolis (RGHP) is a medical device that can reduce the bacterial adherence to epithelial cultured cells and invasion by enteropathogens, thus gathering relevant properties to decrease the risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs). [...]

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Antibiofilm polysaccharides.

Rendueles O1, Kaplan JB, Ghigo JM. Environ Microbiol. 2013 Feb;15(2):334-46.   Bacterial extracellular polysaccharides have been shown to mediate many of the cell-to-cell and cell-to-surface interactions that are required for the formation, cohesion and stabilization of bacterial biofilms. However, recent studies have identified several bacterial polysaccharides that inhibit biofilm formation [...]

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