Identifying predictive features of Clostridium difficile infection recurrence before, during, and after primary antibiotic treatment

Identifying predictive features of Clostridium difficile infection recurrence before, during, and after primary antibiotic treatment

Background: Colonization by the pathogen Clostridium difficile often occurs in the background of a disrupted microbial community. Identifying specific organisms conferring resistance to invasion by C. difficile is desirable because diagnostic and therapeutic strategies based on the human microbiota...

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Main Authors: Bhanvadia, Amit, Zhu, Roger, Amarnani, Abhimanyu, Gibbons, Sean M., Martello, Laura A., Pakpour, Sepideh, Gibbons, Sean Michael, Gurry, Thomas Jerome, Alm, Eric J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113594
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8639-1860
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-9364

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113594
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8639-1860
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-9364

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