Therapeutic Fecal Transplant: Cure of Childhood Diarrhea May Come Straight From the Gut, Johns Hopkins Children's Center Study
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Call it therapeutic poop, if you will, but the best hope yet for an effective treatment of childhood infections with the drug-resistant bacterium C. difficile.may come straight from the gut, according to recent research. This is why pediatric gastroenterologists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center are launching a fecal transplantation program for patients with recurrent diarrhea caused by what they say is a wily pathogen that is increasingly impervious to drugs and a rapidly growing problem among children and adults.
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Call it therapeutic poop, if you will, but the best hope yet for an effective treatment of childhood infections with the drug-resistant bacterium C. difficile.may come straight from the gut, according to recent research. This is why pediatric gastroenterologists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center are launching a fecal transplantation program for patients with recurrent diarrhea caused by what they say is a wily pathogen that is increasingly impervious to drugs and a rapidly growing problem among children and adults.
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