Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Therapeutic fecal transplant: Hope for cure of childhood diarrhea comes straight from the gut

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Call it therapeutic poop, if you will, but the best hope yet for an effective treatment of childhood infections with the drug-resistant bacterium C. difficile may come straight from the gut, according to recent research. This is why pediatric gastroenterologists are launching a fecal transplantation program for patients with recurrent diarrhea caused by what they say is a wily pathogen that is increasingly impervious to drugs and a rapidly growing problem among children and adults.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/VP43FHq31ps/130729133002.htm

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