Using fecal transplants to treat recurrent Clostridium difficile infections (CDI)

Author – Clifford McDonald MD Prevention and Response Branch Chief CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Transplanting feces from one human to another may sound repulsive, but for patients suffering from recurrent, debilitating diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile, a fecal transplant offers a ray of hope.  It increasingly appears that fecal transplants are effective in […]