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Joseph Kirk
joined in Jul 24, 2018Postdoctoral Research fellow at The Krebs Institute, MBB, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
Kirk has 1 break published.
Killing C. difficile with targeted strikes
Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that causes hundreds of thousands of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea cases every year, and these infections often prove fatal. Usually, C. difficile is unable to cause disease as the bacterium is kept in check by the friendly bacteria in the gut; the... click to read more
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published on Jul 24, 2018
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