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Intestinal inflammation and altered gut microbiota associated with inflammatory bowel disease renders mice susceptible to <i>Clostridioides difficile</i> colonization and infection
2020-07-31
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Clostridioides difficile has emerged as a noteworthy pathogen in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Concurrent IBD and CDI is associated with increased morbidity and mortality compared to CDI alone. IBD is associated with alterations of the gut microbiota, an important mediator of colonization resistance to C. difficile . Here, we describe and utilize a mouse model to explore the r...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 03644440-20d0-59da-9b72-8722fd3315b3
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.07.30.230094
