OpenBiome, a public stool bank that provides clinicians with ready-to-use stool preparations for fecal microbiota transplantation, is now banking patients’ own stool in case they require future treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. According to both the Massachusetts-based organization and other experts, autologous transplants derived from an individual’s own stool may have advantages over donor-based procedures.
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