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Gut expert urges more faecal microbiota transplants to treat C.Diff infections

More faecal transplants and less antibiotics should be used to counter the rise of Clostridium Difficile infection, a leading microbiologist has claimed.

More faecal transplants and less antibiotics should be used to counter the rise of Clostridium Difficile infection, a leading microbiologist has claimed. An estimated 3% of the population carry C.Diff without disease, yet figures for 2014/15 show that cases of infection rose by 6% to 14,165, up from 13,361 in 2013/14. Previous years have seen a year-on-year decrease in C.Diff cases going back to 2007/08. As a result, Glenn Taylor, microbiologist and founder of the Taymount Clinic in Hertfordshire, has called on the NHS to carry out more faecal microbiota transplants (FMT) to tackle the issue, rather than using antibiotics,

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