Importance of Glutamate Dehydrogenase (GDH) in Clostridium difficile Colonization In Vivo.

Clostridium difficile is the principal cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Major metabolic requirements for colonization and expansion of C. difficile after microbiota disturbance have not been fully determined. In this study, we show that glutamate utilization is important for C. difficile to...

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Main Authors: Brintha Parasumanna Girinathan, Sterling Braun, Apoorva Reddy Sirigireddy, Jose Espinola Lopez, Revathi Govind
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4965041?pdf=render