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From: Reductions in intestinal Clostridiales precede the development of nosocomial Clostridium difficile infection

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Diversity of the intestinal microbiota across Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) cases and control subjects. The 16S rRNA gene sequences were clustered into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) defined by ≥97% nucleotide sequence identity. Case patients (n = 25) are colored in red and control patients (n = 25) are colored in blue. Patients with the lowest degree of intestinal biodiversity (n = 6; all of these patients are cases) are shown with open circles. Results are presented for both V1-V3 and V3-V5 sequence sets. Horizontal lines represent the median and interquartile range. P values were determined by Mann–Whitney U-test.

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