Progress in fecal microbiota transplantation in children / 国际儿科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Fecal microbiota transplantation(FMT)is a therapy with a histroy at least 1700 years.In re-cent years,due to the fast progresses made in the research area of gut microbiome,FMT has attracted more atten-tion.Many clinical studies in adult have shown that FMT is an effective treatment for recurrent clostridium diffi-cile infection(RCDI)and inflammatory bowel disease(IBD),however there is limited information available in children's diseases.This review will cover published studies looking at FMT therapy in children,for both pediat-ric RCDI and IBD.