Spores of Clostridium difficile clinical isolates display a diverse germination response to bile salts

Clostridium difficile spores play a pivotal role in the transmission of infectious diarrhoea, but in order to cause disease spores must complete germination and return to vegetative cell growth. While the mechanisms of spore germination are well understood in Bacillus, knowledge of C. difficile germ...

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Main Authors: Heeg, Daniela, Burns, David A., Cartman, Stephen T., Minton, Nigel P.
Format: Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2538/