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Faecal microbiota transplantation is promising but not a panacea

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Faecal microbiota transplantation has proved efficacious for diseases such as recurrent Clostridium difficile infection via restoration of gut microbial ecology and bile acid content. However, despite its adoption by mainstream medicine, misuse of this technology in clinical or domestic settings warrants caution.

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  1. Michael J. Sadowsky is at the BioTechnology Institute and Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, and Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA.,

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  2. Alexander Khoruts is in the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, BioTechnology Institute, and Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.,

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Sadowsky, M., Khoruts, A. Faecal microbiota transplantation is promising but not a panacea. Nat Microbiol 1, 16015 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.15

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