A newly developed synthetic "poop" can cure nasty gastrointestinal infections caused by Clostridium difficile, a toxin-producing bacterium, a new study suggests. A synthetic "poop" developed at the ...

The nonprofit public stool bank, OpenBiome, has announced a new pilot program called PersonalBiome, which will allow individuals to bank a cryogenically preserved sample of their own healthy ...

The thought of having someone else’s poop … sorry, stool … put into your body may be a disgusting one. But a specific treatment has become all the rage in the gastroenterology world, especially for ...

FMT restores gut microbiota balance by transferring stool from healthy donors, mainly for recurrent C. difficile infections. Recent data shows FMT's high efficacy in preventing recurrent C. difficile, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with Clostridium difficile infection who received a single fecal microbiota transplantation using stool ...

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Fecal microbiota transplant (FMT), or the transfer of stool from a healthy donor to a patient, has been found highly effective in reversing severe Clostridiodes difficile diarrheal infections in ...

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided 510(k) clearance for the cobas® Cdiff Test to detect Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Thursday following the death of a patient who received a fecal transplant containing drug-resistant bacteria. Fecal transplants are used to treat ...

Empirical intravenous vancomycin, piperacillin–tazobactam, and metronidazole were administered owing to concern about polymicrobial sepsis. Over the next hour, the patient became increasingly ...

Clostridium difficile bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...

Fecal microbiota can successfully treat Clostridium difficile infections after being frozen and thawed, a new study shows. The finding may lead to ways of overcoming logistical challenges presented by ...