Researchers have found how an antibiotic used to treat a debilitating gut infection stays put inside the body giving it time to effectively treat the problem, a discovery that will pave the way for the development of more ...
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Scientists from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research identified the mechanisms by which the bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficile kills intestinal epithelial cells (IECs), thus destroying the protective mucosal ...
Nov 21, 2018
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It all began with a medical puzzle. A severe diarrheal disease called pseudomembranous colitis, and later known as Clindamycin-induced colitis, had been observed by doctors since the 1890s. It spread dramatically with the ...
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