Table 3.

Undefined cultures and defined consortia used in microbiota transplantations

Host	Number	Composition	Reference
Germ-free children	2	Two Bifidobacterium strains, two spore formers (most likely contaminants of an antibiotic)	Dietrich and Fliedner (1973)
C-section babies	6	Human donor microbiota maintained in germ-free mice	Raibaud et al. (1975)
AD patients	5	Human donor microbiota maintained in germ-free mice	van der Waaij et al. (1977); Heidt et al. (1983)
CDI patients	32	Human donor microbiota subcultured for 10 years	Jorup-Rönström et al. (2012)
CDI mice	20	S. warneri, E. hirae, L. reuteri, Anaerostipes sp. nov., Bacteroidetes sp. nov., Enterorhabdus sp. nov.	Lawley et al. (2012)
CDI patients	6	E. faecalis, C. innocuum, C. ramosum, B. ovatus, B. vulgatus, B. thetaiotamicron, E. coli (2), C. bifermentus, P. productus	Tvede and Rask-Madsen (1989)
CDI patients	2	A. intestinalis, B. ovatus, Bif. adolescentis (2), Bif. longum (2), Bl. producta, C. cocleatum, Col. aerofaciens, D. longicatena (2), E. coli, Eub. desmolans, Eub. eligens, Eub. limosum, Eub. rectale (4), Eub. ventriosum, F. prausnitzii, Lach. pectinoshiza, L. paracasei, L. casei, Par. distasonis, Raoultella sp., R. faecalis, R. intestinalis, Rum. torques (2), Rum. obeum (2), S. mitis	Petrof et al. (2013)

AD, antibiotic decontamination. E., Enterococcus; C., Clostridium; B., Bacteroides; E., Escherichia; P., Propionibacterium; A., Anaerostipes; Bif., Bifidobacterium; Col., Colinsella; Eub., Eubacterium; F. Faecalibacterium; Lach., Lachnospira; Par., Parabacteroides; R., Roseburia; Rum., Ruminococcus; S., Streptococcus; L., Lactobacillus. The species indicated in bold are the main constituents of the mixtures.