Minimising the risk of monkeypox virus transmission during faecal microbiota transplantation: recommendations from a European expert panel

Affiliations

• ¹ Digestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Italy; Dipartimento Universitario di Medicina e Chirurgia Traslazionale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: gianluca.ianiro@unicatt.it.
• ² Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ³ University of Birmingham Microbiome Treatment Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; Netherlands Donor Feces Bank, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
• ⁵ Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
• ⁶ Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
• ⁷ Service de Gastroenterologie, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine, Paris, France; French Group of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, Paris, France; INRA, UMR1319 Micalis, AgroParisTech, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
• ⁸ Department of Gastroenterology and Institute of Digestive Research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.
• ⁹ Microbiology Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
• ¹¹ Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; Department of Gastroenterology, Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, Netherlands.
• ¹² Digestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Italy; Dipartimento Universitario di Medicina e Chirurgia Traslazionale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.