title: What is the value of a food and drug administration investigational new drug application for fecal microbiota transplantation to treat Clostridium difficile Infection?
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago-Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: Gail A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Hecht
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Martin J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Blaser
authors.affiliation: Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.affiliation: Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute, Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Lee M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Computer Science, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado.
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Knight
authors.affiliation: Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Loren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Laine
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Peek
authors.affiliation: International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics, Davis, California.
authors.forename: Mary Ellen
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Sanders
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Balfour
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sartor
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Gary D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York.
authors.forename: Vincent W
authors.initials: VW
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D001691:Biological Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D017387:Investigational New Drug Application; D064307:Microbiota