… Additionally, our observation that Nod2 is needed to facilitate mucus secretion when ER
stress is reduced provides a possible explanation for the high frequency of mutations in this …

… the gut following antibiotic treatment is a clear demonstration of this phenomenon. Clostridioides
difficile is a Gram-positive spore-forming anaerobe that is the leading cause of antibiotic…

A gnotobiotic Gallus gallus (chicken) model was developed to study the dynamics of intestinal
microflora from hatching to 18 days of age employing metagenomics. Intestinal samples …

… The next epidemic of CDI is not a matter of if but a matter of when. Therefore, being well-equipped
with a collection of alternative therapeutics is necessary and should be prioritized. …

… that inhibitory activity is lost in the cell-free supernatant indicating that inhibition is mediated
… Our results also showed that this inhibition is not serotype dependent and is applicable to …

… The pathogenesis of CDI is attributed to the production of two major toxins: toxins A and B.
Toxin A is an enterotoxin encoded by tcdA, and toxin B is a cytotoxin encoded by tcdB. Both …

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license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 …

Background: The microbial community residing in the animal gastrointestinal tract play a
crucial role in host health. Because of the high complexity of gut microbes, many microbes …

… When the combined effect of quercetin and rice bran were analyzed, we find that majority
of the microbial shift is due to the supplementation of rice bran (Figure 2 and Supplementary …

A Gram-positive, coccobacillus, white raised and circular with an entire edge colony, and
obligately anaerobic bacterium, strain SW178 was isolated from the cecum content of feral …