Greathouse K Leigh, Harris Curtis C, Bultman Scott J
Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA.
Cell Metab. 2015 Jan 6;21(1):9-10. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2014.12.016.
C. difficile infection is a deadly disease that is influenced by the microbiome. In a recent article in Nature, Buffie et al. (2014) demonstrate that the ability of C. scindens to synthesize secondary bile acids is crucial to providing resistance to C. difficile infection.
艰难梭菌感染是一种受微生物群影响的致命疾病。在《自然》杂志最近的一篇文章中,布菲等人(2014年)证明,斯氏梭菌合成次级胆汁酸的能力对于提供对艰难梭菌感染的抵抗力至关重要。