Fecal bacteriotherapy for recurrent clostridium difficile infection: What's old is new again?

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 101-103

  Suwantarat, Nuntra ^a   Bobak, David A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile infection; Fecal bacteriotherapy; Fecal microbiota transplantation; Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTEROIDES; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; FECAL BACTERIOTHERAPY; FECES MICROFLORA; FIRMICUTES; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; RECURRENT INFECTION; SAFETY; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84877920536     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-013-0314-8     Document Type: Article

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