Patients Would Accept Stool Transplant if Recommended by Their Physicians

Abstract

Stool transplantation (now, sometimes known by the more elegant name of fecal microbiota transplantation [FMT]) is the safest and most effective treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). FMT involves recolonizing the gastrointestinal tract with microbes from stool provided by a healthy volunteer; the stool suspension is infused via a nasogastric tube or rectally. …