Screening of faecal microbiota transplant donors during the COVID-19 outbreak: suggestions for urgent updates from an international expert panel

Affiliations

• ¹ Digestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 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 Division of Gastroenterology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
• ⁴ 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.
• ⁵ Finch Therapeutics Group, Somerville, MA, USA.
• ⁶ Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
• ⁸ Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁹ Microbiology Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Medical Center for Digestive Diseases, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
• ¹¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, Netherlands; Netherlands Donor Feces Bank, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
• ¹² Department of Gastroenterology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
• ¹³ Department of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ¹⁴ Digestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy.