Noam Hassenfeld
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103 recordings
15 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
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And through sharing bits of genetic information, I mean, essentially, you know, through the equivalent of a sexual reproduction, they can share genetic bits of code that tell the other bacteria...
high to be resistant also.
And that is the big, big worry.
So not just the staphylococci or the E. coli is affected, but the E. coli share with the pseudomonas, which share with the sericea, which share with the citrobacter, which share with the enterobacter.
And suddenly you get the whole gut flora becoming resistant.
Yeah, absolutely.
And they can also potentially trade virulence factors.
So they can also trade genetic bits of information that tell them how to be more aggressive.
And then there is a scenario in hospital in particular, where we have Clostridium difficile, or now called Clostridium difficile, which is a bacteria that can live in certain people's guts.
But it
particularly when we've been given antibiotics, which wipe out some of the good bacteria, see that space and go, ah, that's a nice place to live.
And they suddenly explode in growth and they can take over a lot of the bile sort of real estate that was occupied by the other bacteria.
And they can in particular produce toxins that are really aggressive, nasty, cause very bad diarrhea, really quite debilitating symptoms and severe gut inflammation and even death in some people.
That is absolutely right.
Faecal transplants are essentially where we choose what we think is a, in some case, a representative sample of healthy bacteria from an individual.
And we...
through a safe mechanism that bypasses the stomach and gets right into the gut, transposes that bit of gut flora from the healthy individual into the person who's got either Clostridium difficile or a very unhealthy selection of bacteria living in their guts.
And we hope that those take over and therefore they go back to having a normal gut health.
That's right, they're the good neighbours, the ones that bring you over tea and biscuits rather than the ones that aggressively invade your garden.
That's in the current format.
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