[url=http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/04/19/3194662.htm]ABC Science talk on curing Clostridium difficile[/url]
This is the astonishing story of a 61-year-old woman who was dying from a bowel infection and whose life was saved by a transplant of faeces!
The woman had been treated with antibiotics for a pneumonia. Unfortunately while the antibiotics knocked off her pneumonia they also knocked off many of the good microbes in her gut.
This meant that a truly nasty bacterium Clostridium difficile could move in and take over.