New approach to unraveling clostridium difficile
Friday, February 7, 2020 - 11:10
in Biology & Nature
Clostridium difficile, a bacterium known to cause symptoms from diarrhea to life-threatening colon damage, is part of a growing epidemic for the elderly and hospitalized patients. Biologists have now developed models of the common fruit fly to help develop novel therapies to fight the pathogen.