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Comment
. 2018 Apr 4:8:104.
doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00104. eCollection 2018.

Commentary: Bacteriophage transfer during faecal microbiota transplantation in Clostridium difficile infection is associated with treatment outcome

Blessing O Anonye  1   2
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Commentary: Bacteriophage transfer during faecal microbiota transplantation in Clostridium difficile infection is associated with treatment outcome

Blessing O Anonye. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: C. difficile infection; Caudovirales; bacteriophages; fecal microbiota transplantation; gut microbiota.

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