{"id":610,"date":"2012-12-17T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2013-02-07T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T22:24:13","slug":"fecal-transplants-one-mans-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Fecal transplants: One man&#8217;s trash\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/life\/human-biology\/fecal-transplant.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"C. diff photo \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/0f\/Clostridium_difficile_01.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scanning electron micrograph of C. diff, courtesy CDC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Accepting a transplant of someone else\u2019s stool might sound extreme, but it might just be the next big thing in medicine, thanks in part to a potentially deadly stomach bug called <em>Clostridium difficile<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>C. diff<\/em>, an emerging epidemic in hospitals and nursing homes that tears through the gut like Sherman through Georgia, has grown increasingly virulent and antibiotic-resistant in recent years. For many sufferers, fecal microbiota transplantation offers hope when all else fails. Can we get over the &#8220;ick factor&#8221; when our lives are on the line? You bet we can.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/life\/human-biology\/fecal-transplant.htm \" target=\"_blank\">How Fecal Transplants Work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accepting a transplant of someone else\u2019s stool might sound extreme, but it might just be the next big thing in medicine, thanks in part to a potentially deadly stomach bug called Clostridium difficile. C. diff, an emerging epidemic in hospitals and nursing homes that tears through the gut like Sherman through Georgia, has grown increasingly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fecal transplants: One man&#8217;s trash\u2026<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,82,31,67,3],"tags":[541,547,539,538,549,540,544,548,550,545,546,542,543,68],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-health","category-how-to","category-medicine","category-science","tag-bacteria","tag-bowel","tag-c-diff","tag-clostridium-difficile","tag-coprophagy","tag-fecal-microbiota-transplantation","tag-flora","tag-gut","tag-human-biome-project","tag-hygiene-hypothesis","tag-immune-system","tag-medical-ecology","tag-microorganisms","tag-pathology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}