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The diverse sporulation characteristics of Clostridium difficile clinical isolates are not associated with type.
Anaerobe - 1 Dec 2010
Burns David A, Heap John T, Minton Nigel P
Abstract excerpt
Clostridium difficile causes diarrhoeal diseases ranging from asymptomatic carriage to a fulminant, relapsing, and potentially fatal colitis. Endospore production plays a vital role in transmission of infection, and in order to cause disease these spores must then germinate and return to vegetati...
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