Patient Attitudes Toward the Use of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in the Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection | Zendy

Jonathan S. Zipursky | Zendy; Tivon Sidorsky | Zendy; Christine Freedman | Zendy; Misha N Sidorsky | Zendy; Kathryn B. Kirkland | Zendy

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Patient Attitudes Toward the Use of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in the Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection

Author(s) -

Jonathan S. Zipursky,

Tivon Sidorsky,

Christine Freedman,

Misha N Sidorsky,

Kathryn B. Kirkland

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/cis809

Subject(s) - clostridium difficile , fecal bacteriotherapy , medicine , clostridium infections , transplantation , feces , clostridiaceae , intensive care medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , immunology , surgery , antibiotics , biology , toxin

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), a safe, effective alternative therapy for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), is infrequently used, in part because of an assumption that patients are unwilling to consider FMT because of its unappealing nature.

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