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Conditioning chemotherapy exposure is associated with epigenetic modifications in Clostridioides difficile isolates from stem cell transplant recipients

2026-01-13 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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Clostridioides difficile is a highly methylated organism within the gut microbiome that is responsible for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), a common disease that is mediated by toxins production from the bacterium. C. difficile infection is ten times more common in chemotherapy patients than the average patient, but the reasons for this disparity are unclear. Conditioning chemotherapy (CC), an integral part of cancer treatments, has the ability to induce methylation changes in many cell...

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