Healthy poo transplants show promise in treating bacterial diarrhea

An Alberta-led clinical trial has shown healthy poop transplants can be used to treat a specific cause of sloppy stool, whether taken orally or by an enema.
A trial led by researchers at the University of Alberta has shown fecal microbiota transplants — where fecal bacteria from a healthy donor is transplanted into another patient — is effective at treating clostridium difficile infections whether the transplant is delivered by colonoscopy or by swallowing a capsule.
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