‘Faecal transplant’ clue to treating gut bug
The gut infection Clostridium difficile can be defeated by a cocktail of rival good bacteria, experiments in mice show.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20081895
I talked a bit earlier about problems with antibiotics and their interference with your gut ‘microbiome’, the article above has some very strong experimental evidence that this is indeed the case. The idea of carefully blending a collection of bacteria grown on petri dishes rather than collected from someone’s poo certainly goes a very long way toward producing something that could get FDA approval!
