Such an insidious malady is apt to drive patients to drastic treatment measures. Direct fecal transplants, which transfer gut microbiota from healthy donors, have shown great promise in treating CDI’s ...

Clostridium difficile infection is increasingly common with a high risk of recurrence despite antibiotic treatment. In cases of recurrent C. difficile infection, fecal microbiota transplant (FMT ...

Now, as a postdoc in Dr. Vincent Youngs lab at the University of Michigan, she studies Clostridium difficile infection, an antibiotic-associated pathogen of the GI tract, and its relationship with ...

From now on, US physicians and researchers will have to get approval from the FDA before they can perform a stool transplant. Researchers performing the procedure—which has emerged as an effective way ...

For patients with type 1 diabetes with moderate-to-severe gastrointestinal symptoms, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is safe and improves clinical outcomes.

The use of fecal microbiota, live-jslm (RBL; REBYOTA®) in the prevention of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection ...

Many hospitals have successfully used fecal transplantation to treat a gastrointestinal infection called Clostridium difficile. The clinical study, named the GUT-PARFECT trial, was conducted at ...

In Lausanne, severe intestinal inflammation is treated with pills made from faecal bacteria. The University Hospital of ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013;7(7):615-628. Infusion via colonoscopy offers the ability to deliver larger volumes of donor stool to the proximal colon, including into the terminal ileum ...