Treating Clostridium difficile infections: Should fecal microbiota transplantation be reclassified from investigational drug to human tissue?

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has emerged as a highly effective treatment for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), the most frequent cause of hospital-acquired infectious diarrhea in developed countries and the cause of nearly 30,000 annual deaths in the US. FMT is proving to be more effe...

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Main Authors: Mark Stuntz, Franka des Vignes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-10-01
Series:Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451865415300454