How (and Why) to Make a Pill Out of Poop

The latest clinical trials for poop pills that can fight a gut infection failed. But that's no reason to flush this research down the toilet.
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The Journal of Infectious Diseases: A Novel Microbiome Therapeutic Increases Gut Microbial Diversity and Prevents Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: http://bit.ly/2bvCrdL

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Clostridium difficile
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Super nose
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Norovirus
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Candida albicans PHIL 3192 lores
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Giardia intestinalis (259 17)
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HK Chai Wan IVE 藥劑實驗室 Pharmaceutical Science Laboratory 糖衣 Sugar coated Room 516
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