Faecal transplant helps defeat multidrug-resistant infections: study

Some patients with blood diseases benefitted from improved quality of life, researchers found
Reuters Health Staff writer
Enterobacteriacae on agar plate

Chronically ill patients infected with multidrug-resistant organisms during care for serious conditions may benefit from faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), a pilot study suggests.

In the study, 20 patients with intestinal colonisation by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) were followed.