Hyperimmune Bovine Colostrum as a Novel Therapy to Combat Clostridium difficile Infection
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Hyperimmune bovine colostrum as a novel therapy to combat Clostridium difficile infection.
BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile is a primary cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea that typically develops when gut microbiota is altered. Conventional treatment for C. difficile infection (CDI) is additional antimicrobial administration, which further disrupts normal intestinal microbiota, often resulting in poor treatment outcomes. METHODS A pregnant dairy cow was repeatedly immunized wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0022-1899,1537-6613
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu605