Oxidative ornithine metabolism supports non-inflammatory C. difficile colonization

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Abstract The enteric pathogen Clostridioides difficile ( Cd ) is responsible for a toxin-mediated infection that causes more than 200,000 recorded hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths in the United States every year 1 . However, Cd can colonize the gut in the absence of disease symptoms. Prevalence of asymptomatic colonization by toxigenic Cd in healthy populations is high; asymptomatic carriers are at increased...

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