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Dynamic changes in short- and long-term bacterial composition following fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. Microbiome , 2015; 3 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s40168 ...
Fecal transplants may help treat gastrointestinal ... For example, about 20% of people who take antibiotics for Clostridium difficile, a common bacterial stomach infection that causes diarrhea ...
The Food and Drug Administration cleared the capsules for adults 18 and older who face risks from repeat infections with Clostridium ... reporting success with fecal transplants — using ...
Fecal parasites are making people sick in pools, CDC says. Here's how to stay safe In that study's analysis of 30 homes, Clostridium difficile — a bacterial cause of fever and diarrhea — was ...
After donor-feces infusion, patients showed increased fecal bacterial diversity, similar to that in healthy donors, with an increase in Bacteroidetes species and clostridium clusters IV and XIVa ...
"There is no doubt that poo can save lives," said Bordenstein. Take the case of the use of fecal transplants to treat Clostridium difficile infections. According to the literature, it has a 95 ...
Here’s how it works. Fecal transplants are a relatively new area of medicine often used to treat bowel infections, particularly clostridium difficile, a nasty, sometimes life-threatening ...
That’s because fecal transplants ... ve gone from fringe treatment to perhaps the gold standard for treating Clostridium difficile infections, which are difficult to tackle with antibiotics ...
HealthDay News — Frozen stool samples work just as well as freshly donated samples when treating Clostridium difficile infection through fecal transplantation, according to findings published in ...
The therapy, Rebyota, targets Clostridium difficile ... difficile infections, fecal microbiota transplants – classified by the regulator as investigational – have long been the standard ...