Thursday 28 February 2013

Stool Transplants Highly Efficient For Clostridium difficile Infections And Other Gastrointestinal Conditions

Clostridium difficile infections have developed into a virtual pandemic over the past two decades. The outcome of standard antibiotic treatment is unsatisfactory: the recurrence rates are high with every relapse increasing the risk of further follow-ups. Faecal microbiota transplantation offers a rapidly acting and highly effective alternative in treating recurrent Clostridium difficile infections (RCDI), as Professor Lawrence J. Brandt (Montefiore Medical Center, New York, USA) points out... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..

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