The present invention relates to an animal feed or an animal feed additive comprising Bacillus strains which improve the health and performance of production animals, and the use of such.

The present application provides a medicament having an anti-inflammatory bowel disease function, and a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The medicament has a structure as represented in formula I or formula II. The medicament and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a solvate, a prodrug, a tautomer, a stereoisomer, or a pharmaceutical composition thereof provided by the present application have a good effect on inflammatory bowel diseases, can be used for preparing medicaments for treating the inflammatory bowel diseases, and have important clinical significance and wide application prospects.

The present application provides a medicament having an anti-inflammatory bowel disease function, and a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The medicament has a structure as represented in formula I or formula II. The medicament and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a solvate, a prodrug, a tautomer, a stereoisomer, or a pharmaceutical composition thereof provided by the present application have a good effect on inflammatory bowel diseases, can be used for preparing medicaments for treating the inflammatory bowel diseases, and have important clinical significance and wide application prospects.

Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for preventing, ameliorating, or treating Clostridium difficile infections and/or reducing the severity of one or more risk factors, signs, or symptoms associated with C. difficile infections. In particular, the technology of the present disclosure relates to methods for administering an effective amount of a composition comprising strains of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens bacteria identified as ART24, ART4, and ART 12, to a subject suffering from or at risk for C. difficile infections.

Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for preventing, ameliorating, or treating Clostridium difficile infections and/or reducing the severity of one or more risk factors, signs, or symptoms associated with C. difficile infections. In particular, the technology of the present disclosure relates to methods for administering an effective amount of a composition comprising strains of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens bacteria identified as ART24, ART4, and ART 12, to a subject suffering from or at risk for C. difficile infections.

The present invention relates to the treatment of diseases induced by Enterobacteriae. The inventors evaluated, in a multicellular in vitro model associating cells representing human enterocytes (Caco-2 cells), goblet mucus secreting cells (HT29-MTX) and M cells, whether Bacteroides fragilis, a non-enterotoxigenic strain, could be useful to limit the severity of the Salmonella Heidelberg infection, with an hypermutator phenotype, by analyzing their impact on growth and mucosal translocation. Thus, the present invention relates to a Bacteroides fragilis strain for use in the treatment of diseases induced by Enterobacteriae in a subject in need thereof.

The application describes treatment of hepatic encephalopathy using gastrointestinal specific antibiotics. One example of a gastrointestinal specific antibiotic is rifaximin.

The invention provides cyclodextrin inclusion complex delivery vehicles formulated for oral delivery, in which the cyclodextrin inclusion complex comprising N-acetylcysteine and acetaminophen as stacked guest molecules within the cyclodextrin cavity is provided together with an enzyme having a cyclodextrin-degrading activity capable of digesting the cyclodextrin, so that upon delivery of the vehicle to a target the enzyme is activated and releases N-acetylcysteine and acetaminophen from the cyclodextrin cavity. In alternative aspects, these cyclodextrin inclusion complex delivery vehicles are for example provided in the form of medicaments, food ingredients, medical food ingredients, nutritional supplement ingredients, dietary supplement ingredients, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, animal repellents, pheromones, plant growth regulators, fragrances, fabrics or packaging materials.

The invention relates to a multivalent Shigella/Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli vaccine for use in prophylaxis and treatment of diarrheal disease. The Shigella-ETEC vaccine provides increased coverage of a broader range of ETEC and Shigella isolates than prior vaccines, and includes CS14 antigens and serotypes (S. flexneri 7a, or S. flexneri 1b).

Amorphous rifaximin, methods of making it, and pharmaceutical compositions containing it. Also described are methods of converting amorphous rifaximin to crystalline rifaximin and vice versa.