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April 8, 2014

Children Benefit from Fecal Transplant to Combat C. Difficile

By Center for Individualized Medicine

Article Originally Featured in Digestive Disease Update To address the issues of rising cases in children with cases of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), and the rise of recurrence in children, Mark G. Bartlett, M.D., a pediatric gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. initiated a fecal microbiota transplant program for young patients with refractory C. […]

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Tags: c. difficile, children, Clostridium Difficile, digestive, digestive disease, Fecal, fecal transplant, mark bartlett, microbiota, pediatrics