Microbiota dynamics in patients treated with fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.

Clostridium difficile causes antibiotic-associated diarrhea and pseudomembraneous colitis and is responsible for a large and increasing fraction of hospital-acquired infections. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an alternate treatment option for recurrent C. difficile infection (RCDI) refrac...

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Main Authors: Yang Song, Shashank Garg, Mohit Girotra, Cynthia Maddox, Erik C von Rosenvinge, Anand Dutta, Sudhir Dutta, W Florian Fricke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24303043/?tool=EBI