Complete Microbiota Engraftment Is Not Essential for Recovery from Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection following Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

Bacterial communities from subjects treated for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (rCDI) by fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), using either heterologous donor stool samples or autologous stool samples, were characterized by Illumina next-generation sequencing. As previously reported, th...

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Main Authors: Christopher Staley, Colleen R. Kelly, Lawrence J. Brandt, Alexander Khoruts, Michael J. Sadowsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-12-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/6/e01965-16