Maybe pump the brakes on fecal transplants because one just killed a patient

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Electron micrograph of Escherichia coli, from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

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Fecal transplants are all the rage these days. The FDA just announced that two patients who received a fecal transplant from the same donor got sick, and one died. They contracted antibiotic resistant E. coli from their donation. Both were immunocompromised (they had no functional immune system) before their received the transplant. The transplant hadn't been tested for this type of bacteria beforehand.