Comparative nutritional and chemical phenome of Clostridium difficile isolates determined using phenotype microarrays

Comparative nutritional and chemical phenome of Clostridium difficile isolates determined using phenotype microarrays

Objectives: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of infectious diarrhea in North America and Europe. The risk of CDI increases significantly in the case where antimicrobial treatment reduces the number of competing bacteria in the gut, thus leading to the increased availabilit...

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Main Authors: Joy Scaria, Jenn-Wei Chen, Nicodemus Useh, Hongxuan He, Sean P. McDonough, Chunhong Mao, Bruno Sobral, Yung-Fu Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-10-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Clostridium difficile
Phenotype microarray
Phenome
Phenotype
Metabolism
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