Symptom relief four weeks after a fecal transplant appears to be an accurate predictor of cure of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) at eight weeks for most patients, according to one of two new sets of data that may help refine or clarify best practices with this treatment modality.
The study found that symptom relief outperformed a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test of stool at four weeks for predicting cure of CDI at eight weeks, which is the standard time at which treatment