Altering Gut Microbiome May Increase Resistance to <i>C. difficile</i> infection

North Carolina State University scientists using a mouse model found that antibiotic use creates a veritable "banquet" for  Clostridium difficile  ( C. diff ) by altering the native gut bacteria that would normally compete with  C. diff for  nutrients. The findings (“ Shifts in the Gut Metabolome and  Clostridium difficile  Transcriptome throughout Colonization and Infection in a Mouse Model ”), published in mSphere, could lead to the deve