fecal transplants
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Faecal Transplant Patient Killed By Superbug Traced To Donor Stool
An aesthetically unpleasant but genuinely promising medical treatment — a faecal transplant — may come with more serious risks than previously thought. This week, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about the treatment, after receiving reports of two people coming down with serious drug-resistant infections following the procedure. One patient ultimately died.
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A Common Sweetener May Be Worsening The Spread Of These Deadly Bacteria
Stool transplants are exactly what they sound like: moving poop from a healthy person into a sick person, perhaps via a pill or an enema. I bring this up because most people cringe at the idea – but they’re a treatment proven effective for some antibiotic-resistant infections caused by the Clostridium difficile, or C. diff…