Microbiome predictors of dysbiosis and VRE decolonization in patients with recurrent <i>C. difficile</i> infections in a multi-center retrospective study

The gastrointestinal microbiome is intrinsically linked to the spread of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic treatment puts patients at risk for colonization by opportunistic pathogens like vancomycin resistant Enterococcus and <em>Clostridioides difficile</em> by destroying the colonizati...

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Main Authors: Marina Santiago, Lindsay Eysenbach, Jessica Allegretti, Olga Aroniadis, Lawrence J. Brandt, Monika Fischer, Ari Grinspan, Colleen Kelly, Casey Morrow, Martin Rodriguez, Majdi Osman, Zain Kassam, Mark B. Smith, Sonia Timberlake
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIMS Press 2019-01-01
Series:AIMS Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.aimspress.com/article/10.3934/microbiol.2019.1.1/fulltext.html