Article
The Microbiota Diversity Following Antibiotic Treatment of Clostridium Difficile Infection
2020-08-21
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<h4>Background: </h4> Clostridium difficile ( C. difficile ) is a major nosocomial pathogen that infects the human gut and can cause diarrheal disease. A dominant risk factor is antibiotic treatment that disrupts the normal gut microbiota. The aim of the study was to examine the correlation between antibiotic treatment received prior to C. difficile infection (CDI) onset and patient gut microbiota. <h4>Methods: </...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 235cc12f-6391-5e79-a925-c5a4b210242d
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-52869/v1
