Pre-Antibiotic Treatment Followed by Prolonged Repeated Faecal Microbiota Transplantation Improves Symptoms and Quality of Life in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: An Observational Australian Clinical Experience

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Abdominal symptom severity scores by IBS subtype and total cohort from baseline to week-24 (). Scores of abdominal symptom severity for (a)–(g) were as follows; 0 = none, 1 = mild, 2 = moderate, 3 = quite a lot, 4 = severe, 5 = very severe, and 6 = unbearable. Stool frequency (h) was recorded as bowel motions (BM) per day. A 5–95 percentile box and whisker plots (a)—(h) were generated in GraphPad Prism 8 with the median and quartiles marked as standard, the mean marked with a ‘+’ and outliers marked with a ‘o’. Significance was graphed as follows; ns = not significant (), *, **, and ***. Week-52 data was omitted due to low questionnaire return rate.

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