Warning over safety of faecal transplants
Patient dies after receiving transplant containing E. coli, FDA warns
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning over the use of faecal transplant procedures after one patient died and another became infected with drug-resistant bacteria.
Both patients were immunocompromised and developed invasive infections after receiving stool samples from the same donor containing extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli.
