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Clostridium difficile

submitted by agwartney on April 10, 2012
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Tags: Clostridium difficile , diarrhea , gut flora , intestinal disease
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Author(s): Annie Cavanagh, Wellcome Images
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A colour-enhanced scanning electron micrograph image showing a cluster of Clostridium difficile on a surface. Clostridium difficile is a species of Gram-positive bacteria that causes severe diarrhea and other intestinal disease when competing bacteria in the gut flora have been wiped out by antibiotics.

Annie Cavanagh. Wellcome Images. The Cell: an Image Library
 
 

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  1. avatar Akin Olagoke Ogunleye makes this comment

    Tue Apr 17 01:01:54 2012

    A very good micrograph. C.difficile , a toxin producing microbe.

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