Fecal transplant donor Dr. Hunter Johnson, a Pathology resident, has supplied stool that aided in the resolution of four serious courses of C. difficile infection at Emory University.
It should be noted that while showing a cure a rate of up to 90% epidemiologists and infectious disease physicians are hoping that more widespread use of prophylactic probiotics will eliminate the need for the transplant, which does carry a risk of disease transmission.
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