Metabolism the Difficile Way: The Key to the Success of the Pathogen Clostridioides difficile

M Neumann-Schaal, D Jahn… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Strains of Clostridioides difficile cause detrimental diarrheas with thousands of deaths
worldwide. The infection process by the Gram-positive, strictly anaerobic gut bacterium is …

Genetic Mechanisms of Vancomycin Resistance in Clostridioides difficile: A Systematic Review

TA Eubank, AJ Gonzales-Luna, JG Hurdle, KW Garey - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance to treatments for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) poses a
significant threat to global health. C. difficile is widely thought to be susceptible to oral …

The impact of pH on Clostridioides difficile sporulation and physiology

D Wetzel, SM McBride - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridioides difficile is a pathogenic bacterium that infects the human colon to cause
diarrheal disease. Growth of the bacterium is known to be dependent on certain bile acids …

Diverse energy-conserving pathways in Clostridium difficile: growth in the absence of amino acid Stickland acceptors and the role of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway

S Gencic, DA Grahame - Journal of bacteriology, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired antibiotic-associated diarrhea
and is the only widespread human pathogen that contains a complete set of genes encoding …

Shifts in the gut metabolome and Clostridium difficile transcriptome throughout colonization and infection in a mouse model

JR Fletcher, S Erwin, C Lanzas, CM Theriot - Msphere, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Antibiotics alter the gut microbiota and decrease resistance to Clostridium difficile
colonization; however, the mechanisms driving colonization resistance are not well …

Metabolic Reprogramming of Clostridioides difficile During the Stationary Phase With the Induction of Toxin Production

JD Hofmann, A Otto, M Berges, R Biedendieck… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The obligate anaerobe, spore forming bacterium Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium
difficile) causes nosocomial and community acquired diarrhea often associated with …

Genome-Wide Transcription Start Site Mapping and Promoter Assignments to a Sigma Factor in the Human Enteropathogen Clostridioides difficile

O Soutourina, T Dubois, M Monot… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The emerging human enteropathogen Clostridioides difficile is the main cause of diarrhea
associated with antibiotherapy. Regulatory pathways underlying the adaptive responses …

Iron Regulation in Clostridioides difficile

M Berges, AM Michel, C Lassek, AM Nuss… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The response to iron limitation of several bacteria is regulated by the ferric uptake regulator
(Fur). The Fur-regulated transcriptional, translational and metabolic networks of the Gram …

Characterization of a clinical Clostridioides difficile isolate with markedly reduced fidaxomicin susceptibility and a V1143D mutation in rpoB

J Schwanbeck, T Riedel, F Laukien… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objectives The identification and characterization of clinical Clostridioides difficile isolates
with reduced fidaxomicin susceptibility. Methods Agar dilution assays were used to …

What's a Biofilm?—How the Choice of the Biofilm Model Impacts the Protein Inventory of Clostridioides difficile

M Brauer, C Lassek, C Hinze, J Hoyer… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The anaerobic pathogen Clostridioides difficile is perfectly equipped to survive and persist
inside the mammalian intestine. When facing unfavorable conditions C. difficile is able to …