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Antibiotics Weren’t Used to Cure These Patients. Fecal Bacteria Were.
Since fecal transplants came up at IiME13 this week, this seemed topical. The article, https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/health/fecal-transplants-bacteria-antibiotics.html The paper, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1803103- Indigophoton
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Sugar Additive Makes C. Difficile Strains More Virulent
This article in the Los Angeles Times reports on research that indicates that the sugar additive trehalose makes two different C. difficile strains more virulent. Despite the article's title, the sugar additive does not seem to increase the number of these bacteria (which might help them to...- Forbin
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