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SUBMITTER: Bernard R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8600035 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bernard Rachel R Hourigan Suchitra K SK Nicholson Maribeth R MR
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 20211101 Supplement_3
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and has high rates of recurrent disease. As a disease associated with intestinal dysbiosis, gastrointestinal microbiome manipulation and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) have evolved as effective, although relatively unregulated therapeutics and not without safety concerns. FMT for the treatment of CDI has been well studied in adults with increasing data reported in children. In this review, ...[more]