The reasoning behind the use of fecal transplants from healthy individuals is:

A. the competition from the introduction of
other bacteria into the gastrointestinal tract
keeps C. difficile numbers down.
B. the fecal matter from healthy patients does
not have C. difficile.
C. C. difficile feeds on other bacteria that are
introduced with the fecal transplant.
D. antibiotics are administered with the fecal
transplant, thus controlling populations of C.
difficile.


A

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