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Feces

Known as: poop, faecal, faeces 
The material discharged from the bowel during defecation. It consists of undigested food, intestinal mucus, epithelial cells, and bacteria.
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Aeromonas spp as a potential cause of diarrhoea in children.
AIMS: To determine the prevalence of Aeromonas spp in the faeces of children and the association with symptoms of gastroenteritis… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Clinical predictors of acute bacterial diarrhea in young children.
This prospective study assessed the value of presenting history, physical examination, and screening laboratory tests in… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Abdominosacral resection for midrectal cancer. A fifteen-year experience.
From 1966 to 1981, 646 patients underwent resection for primary adenocarcinoma of the rectum by one surgeon (S.A.L.) in one… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Epidemic nosocomial meningitis due to Citrobacter diversus in neonates.
Five infants born at one hospital over a two-year period developed meningitis due to a serotype O2 strain of Citrobacter diversus… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Biochemical effects on germ-free mice of association with several strains of anaerobic bacteria.
The effects of the following changes throughout the association of germ-free mice with increasing numbers of anaerobic bacteria… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Changes in sucrase, enterokinase, and peptide hydrolase after intestinal resection. The association of cellular hyperplasia and adaptation.
In a study of changes in digestive enzymes after massive intestinal resection and the mechanisms by which such changes occur… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Steroids in germfree and conventional rats. 5. Identification of C19 steroids in faeces from germfree rats.
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
The gradient of electrical potential difference and of sodium and potassium of the gut contents along the caecum and colon of normal and sodium‐depleted rats
1. The Na, K and water content of stools, and of gut contents removed from the terminal ileum, caecum and colon were determined… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
Spring rise in faecal worm-egg counts of housed sheep, and its importance in nutritional experiments
1. A spring-rise in faecal strongyloid egg count is described in sheep housed under conditions designed to prevent reinfestation… 
Review
1955
Review
1955
Studies in the differentiation between human and animal pollution by means of faecal streptococci.
The isolation of faecal streptococci from the excreta of man, cattle and sheep was investigated. The methods compared were (a…