What Is a Fecal Transplant? A fecal transplant is a procedure that places the stool of a healthy person into the colon of someone who’s ill. Your doctor may call it bacteriotherapy. A fecal ...

Discussing the types of poop may seem disgusting or at least embarrassing, but paying attention to what's coming out of you can give you great insight into your health. A bowel movement is the ...

Mild Clostridium difficile infection (CDI; stool frequency <four-times daily; no signs of severe colitis), clearly induced by the use of antibiotics, may be treated by stopping the inducing ...

FMT, which involves putting filtrate from a whole stool specimen from a healthy individual into the patient, is an effective but relatively crude way to treat this infection. Ultimately ...

More than half the time, C. diff passed between patients who weren’t in the hospital at the same time MONDAY, April 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A notorious hospital-associated infection has been ...

The bacterium Clostridium difficile – commonly called C. diff – spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.