In additional tests, the scientists found they could restore the norovirus infections by
transplanting fecal material from untreated mice into mice that earlier had been treated with the antibiotics.
In the first study, scientists
transplanted fecal material from exercised and sedentary mice into the colons of sedentary germ - free mice, which had been raised in a sterile facility and had no microbiota of their own.
In the first study, researchers
transplanted fecal material from both exercised and sedentary mice into mice with sterile guts.
Not exact matches
The procedure, which has a 90 percent success rate,
transplants the
fecal microbial ecosystem from a healthy person into a sick one, often using a colonoscope for inserting the
material, to restore a healthy equilibrium.
Physicians have discovered that
transplanting screened and processed
fecal material from a healthy donor into the colon of a sick patient can cure C. difficile infection in 90 % of cases.