In one of the most comprehensive real-world analyses to date, Danish researchers report that fecal microbiota transplantation ...

A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) was noninferior to ...

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 ...

Background: Clostridium difficile infections are becoming more common, more severe, and more likely to recur. Conventional treatment with antibiotics often fails to eradicate the infection; even ...

Currently, C. difficile is first treated with antibiotics like vancomycin, against which the bacteria has not developed a ...

This treatment could benefit many different kinds of patients, but doctors will first need to address its unintended ...

They are hailed as a promising method to restore gut microbiomes, but a study suggests fecal transplants may bring unintended health risks.Fecal microbial transplants can be traced back to the 4th ...

Fecal transplants are a relatively new area of medicine often used to treat bowel infections, particularly clostridium difficile, a nasty, sometimes life-threatening infection that can occur after ...

Doctors are tapping into to the emerging field of the gut microbiome to try to treat some diseases differently.

Fecal microbial transplants, or FMTs, are approved by the Food and Drug Administration only for treating repeated infections with Clostridium difficile, an opportunistic bacterium that often causes ...

U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal ...

Clostridium difficile causes approximately 10% to 20% of cases of antibiotics-associated diarrhea and is the main cause of antibiotics-associated colitis (50% to 75%) and pseudomembranous colitis ...