Isolation and characterisation of four novel bacteriophages infecting clinically relevant PCR ribotypes of Clostridium difficile

Clostridium difficile infection is the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in North America and Europe. The disease is most commonly treated with only a handful of antibiotics, amongst those vancomycin, a so-called last resort therapy. Growing concerns over antibiotic resistance have le...

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Main Author: Whittle, Michaella
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52208/