Successful treatment by fecal microbiota transplantation for Japanese patients with refractory Clostridium difficile infection: A prospective case series

We prospectively enrolled four Japanese patients with refractory Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and were treated with a single fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). The average age of the patients was 83.7 years. All patients had a successful clinical course for up to 3 months without any a...

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Main Authors: Shigeki Bamba, Atsushi Nishida, Hirotsugu Imaeda, Osamu Inatomi, Masaya Sasaki, Mitsushige Sugimoto, Akira Andoh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-08-01
Series:Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1684118217302359