{"id":132360,"date":"2021-12-13T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/fecal-transplant-discovery-could-improve-care-for-life-threatening-infections"},"modified":"2021-12-13T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T04:23:00","slug":"fecal-transplant-discovery-could-improve-care-for-life-threatening-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/fecal-transplant-discovery-could-improve-care-for-life-threatening-infections","title":{"rendered":"Fecal Transplant Discovery Could Improve Care for Life-Threatening Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fecal-transplant-discovery-could-improve-care-for-life-threatening-infections2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Findings suggest way to help patients heal from dangerous <em>C. difficile<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine sheds light on why a fecal transplant can benefit patients with dangerous recurrent <em>C. difficile<\/em> infections \u2013 and suggests a way to improve patient outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><em>C. difficile<\/em> infection causes life-threatening diarrhea, and it often takes hold in patients in hospitals and nursing homes as a result of long-term antibiotic use. Doctors have known that fecal transplants \u2013 literally transplanting fecal material from a healthy person into the sick \u2013 can improve <em>C. difficile<\/em> outcomes, but they haven\u2019t fully understood why. The new UVA research offers important answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings suggest way to help patients heal from dangerous C. difficile. New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine sheds light on why a fecal transplant can benefit patients with dangerous recurrent C. difficile infections \u2013 and suggests a way to improve patient outcomes. C. difficile infection causes life-threatening diarrhea, and it often [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}