Impact of Tigecycline Versus Other Antibiotics on the Fecal Metabolome and on Colonization Resistance to Clostridium difficile in Mice
Background: The glycylcycline antibiotic tigecycline may have a relatively low propensity to promote Clostridium difficile infection in part because it causes less disruption of the indigenous intestinal microbiota than other broad-spectrum antibiotics. We used a mouse model to compare the compare...
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Main Authors: | Robin L.P. Jump (Author), David Kraft (Author), Kelly Hurless (Author), Alex Polinkovsky (Author), Curtis J. Donskey (Author) |
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Case Western Reserve University,
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