Risk and rewards of fecal transplants Page 1 The “yuck” factor alone compels many to
instinctively want to wash their hands, and/or wash their hands of it. A Calgary, Alberta, doctor …

I had a conversation with some colleagues last week about “personalized medicine,” which
has been transformed now into the term “precision medicine.” The conversation revolved …

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has garnered significant attention in recent years in
the face of a reemerging Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) epidemic. Positive results from the …

Highlights•Fecal transplants, despite associated risks, are now a widely accepted
therapeutic.•Bacterial species and functions consistently associated with efficacy have been …

Nancy Ho and Vinay Prasad1 commented in their letter on some of the negative attitudes to
fecal transplantation (FT). These are generated by the perceived risk that infection from the …

You would have to be desperate to take a sample of your husband's excrement, liquidise it
in a kitchen blender and then insert it into your body with an off-the-shelf enema kit. This …

Fecal transplants are increasingly utilized for treatment of recurrent infections (ie,
Clostridium difficile) in the human gut and as a general research tool for gain-of-function …

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has rapidly grown in notoriety and popularity
worldwide as a treatment for both recurrent and refractory C. difficile infection (CDI), as well …

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is used to reconstruct the microbiota of the
gastrointestinal tract by taking fresh or frozen feces from a strictly screened healthy donor …

It is known that intestinal microbiota feeding habits in healthy humans have a direct effect on
the formation of intestinal microbiota, while simultaneously playing the most important role in …