Advances in the Microbiome: Applications to Clostridium difficile Infection

Advances in the Microbiome: Applications to Clostridium difficile Infection

Clostridium difficile is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, causing over 400,000 infections and approximately 29,000 deaths in the United States alone each year. C. difficile is the most common cause of nosocomial diarrhoea in the developed world, and, in recent years, the emergence...

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Main Authors: Eamonn P. Culligan, Roy D. Sleator
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-09-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
Subjects:
Clostridium difficile
bacteriocin
human gut microbiome
gut microbiota
antibiotic resistance
faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)
probiotics
genome sequencing
nanopore sequencing
synthetic biology
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/5/9/83

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