I did say 'purported', and the BBC is basing their story on an case study from the Oxford Journal for infectious diseases, which was linked in the first paragraph of the article: http://ofid.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/1/ofv004.full.

Since you have an issue with the sample size, please point me to the nearest full-scale fecal transplant study done and I'll gladly use those results.

>in a person who was probably already eating a ton and not absorbing it much due to a massive infection.

Source? Let's not criticize others for their sources and then make unsupported drive-by claims.

edit: "article" --> "case study"