Clostridium difficile Is an Autotrophic Bacterial Pathogen

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Köpke, Michael ^a,b   Straub, Melanie ^a   Dürre, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b LanzaTech Limited   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE DEHYDROGENASE; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACETOBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOMASS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM LJUNGDAHLII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HETEROTROPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INCIDENCE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84876573682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062157     Document Type: Article

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