Ben Mullish

@bhmullish.bsky.social

MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Hepatology and Gastroenterology, based at Imperial College London. All comments in a personal capacity.

Vancomycin-resistant 𝙀𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙪𝙢 (VRE) thrives in the antibiotic-perturbed gut VRE gobbles up enriched sugars and amino acids, and loss of short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) eliminates natural growth brakes Therapeutic angle: Prebiotic SCFA mixtures block VRE growth!

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci utilise antibiotic-enriched nutrients for intestinal colonisation - Nature Communications

Here, the authors show that vancomycin-resistant enterococci grow in the antibiotic-treated gut microbiome by utilising enriched nutrients in the presence of reduced concentrations of inhibitory micro...

nature.com

Great that the #MAST trial is moving ahead, and really hoping that this shows the #microbiome as a route to give new treatment prospects to #HCT #BloodCancer patients @bloodcanceruk.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org

MAST Study@mast-study.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now out - protocol paper for the #MAST trial, exploring #IMT #FMT to #prehabilitate the #GutMicrobiome in #BloodCancer patients receiving #HCT, now in #BMJOpen: doi.org/10.1136/bmjo... . Grateful to #MRC #DPFS for funding and #EnteroBiotix as project partners #HaemSky #MicrobiomeSky #GastroSky